National Science Foundation federal obligations in Alaska

How Alaska and National Science Foundation share one cell

Awarding agency 049 and place-of-performance state AK meet here. $272,639,244.96 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not National Science Foundation's nationwide budget, not Alaska's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. NSF in Alaska is a research-grant cell, not a polar-logistics census and not a Fairbanks lab roster. Campus-lab and research-grant folklore and bush-community and polar-logistics folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a census of universities or polar stations.

130 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — a modest award list beside a large obligation total. A mid-size row list can mix large instruments with smaller service awards. The join does not rank Alaska against other states and does not name campuses inside the extract. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Open National Science Foundation in Alaska for the filtered table, Alaska federal spending for the statewide hub, National Science Foundation for the agency hub, and All spending ties for other pairs. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $272,639,244.96.

Reading 130 awards against $272,639,244.96

Dividing $272,639,244.96 by 130 yields about $2,097,224.96 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical research award. A second NSF slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Alaska's 049 total as a synonym for every National Science Foundation bureau account.

Campus-lab and research-grant folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative's extra columns. Bush-community and polar-logistics folklore may explain a search path. It does not add dollars.

Alaska geography is not the nationwide NSF book

The agency-wide National Science Foundation page aggregates 049 without requiring AK geography. The Alaska federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Alaska place of performance. Only National Science Foundation in Alaska applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 130 awards and $272,639,244.96.

Place of performance in Alaska is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list AK while later research occurs in Washington or Oregon (mainland-coded awards). NSF awards coded to those places do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in Anchorage. This packet does not split Anchorage from Fairbanks or Juneau. Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau are reader landmarks, not packet subtotals.

Commitment versus payment

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $272,639,244.96 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in Alaska over-reads the field. USAspending.gov is the source named in the packet.

Award count 130 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use National Science Foundation in Alaska. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug. Keep the obligation word in every reuse of $272,639,244.96.

Correlation is not causation

A large NSF total in Alaska does not mean the agency caused Alaska's fiscal mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between bush-community and polar-logistics folklore and NSF awards is expected; it is not a finding about waste or program quality. No performance metric is in the packet.

Keep $272,639,244.96 labeled as agency 049 obligations with Alaska place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. Do not claim that donations paid for $272,639,244.96 in Alaska. No contractor names are in the packet, and none are invented.

A clean footnote for agency 049 in Alaska

A clean footnote names awarding agency 049 (National Science Foundation), Alaska place of performance, $272,639,244.96 in obligations, and 130 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $272,639,244.96 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $2,097,224.96 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical research award.

National Science Foundation in Alaska, Alaska federal spending, National Science Foundation, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $272,639,244.96 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Anchorage-versus-Fairbanks folklore is not a metro split in this packet. Campuses names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Correlation is not causation. NSF in Alaska is a research-grant cell, not a polar-logistics census and not a Fairbanks lab roster.

Questions

What is the NSF obligation total for Alaska?

USAspending.gov records $272,639,244.96 in obligations for awarding agency 049 (National Science Foundation) with Alaska place of performance, covering 130 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not National Science Foundation's nationwide budget.

Is $2,097,224.96 a typical research award in Alaska?

The extract lists 130 award actions totaling $272,639,244.96. Average obligation per award is about $2,097,224.96, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical research award. Unique campuses are not published here. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Does the Alaska figure split Anchorage from Fairbanks or Juneau?

No. $272,639,244.96 and 130 awards are statewide Alaska place of performance. This packet does not split Anchorage from Fairbanks or Juneau. Awards coded to Washington or Oregon (mainland-coded awards) are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Anchorage.

Which page filters National Science Foundation to Alaska?

National Science Foundation in Alaska is the overlay. Alaska federal spending shows all agencies in the state. National Science Foundation shows agency 049 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.