National Science Foundation federal obligations in Arkansas

One USAspending cell: National Science Foundation and Arkansas

$148,238,576 is not National Science Foundation's national book with a Arkansas footnote, and it is not Arkansas's all-agency book with an agency-049 footnote. It is the intersection only. Research-grant, campus-lab, and stem folklore stays outside the numeric fields.

Do not convert 159 into unique campuses or principal investigators. The field is awardCount. USAspending.gov award actions include new awards, modifications, and other recorded events. This page copies the count; it does not re-label it as people, campuses, or companies.

Open National Science Foundation in Arkansas for the filtered table, Arkansas federal spending for the next hub, National Science Foundation for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

Instruments behind 159 rows

A typical research-grant award would need program and instrument fields. Those fields are absent. The honest caption is: 159 actions, $148,238,576 obligated, mean about $932,318.09, source USAspending.gov.

A mid-size award list is a description of 159, not a quality judgment. Large or small lists can both be accurate extracts of the same two keys.

Neighbor-coded work is excluded

National Science Foundation is National Science Foundation without a state filter. Arkansas federal spending is Arkansas without an agency filter. This slug is the intersection. Citing the nationwide NSF book as if it were Arkansas's $148,238,576 cell is a misread of the join.

No metro split of Little Rock, Fayetteville, and Fort Smith is published here. Awards coded to Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, or Oklahoma are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Little Rock. The overlay path already encodes both the state tag and agency 049.

De-obligations are not in this packet

$148,238,576 records commitments tagged to National Science Foundation and Arkansas. Payments, recoveries, and cancellations would live in other fields. This extract does not publish those fields.

159 actions can include modifications that change a prior obligation. That is why a record count is not a unique-project census. Use National Science Foundation in Arkansas for the live table. Agency 049 is the awarding-agency key stored on that overlay.

No contractor roster in this packet

The join is descriptive. $148,238,576 does not prove that Arkansas received too much or too little National Science Foundation money, and it does not prove that National Science Foundation activity caused local outcomes. No performance metric is in the packet.

Campaign-finance filings do not fund this USAspending cell. National Science Foundation obligations in Arkansas and FEC receipts that mention similar words are separate public records. This page does not merge them. Unique campuses or principal investigators are unpublished here, so none are invented.

Where National Science Foundation in Arkansas sits among other ties

National Science Foundation in Arkansas remains the place to verify the live rows. All spending ties is an index of joins, not a hidden total that already includes $148,238,576. Place-of-performance Arkansas is statewide; it does not split Little Rock, Fayetteville, and Fort Smith. Neighbor-coded activity in Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, or Oklahoma stays out even if mail is handled in Little Rock. Correlation is not causation. Research-grant, campus-lab, and stem folklore can be a legitimate research question on another page. Here it is labeled folklore because the packet has no NAICS, CFDA, or program column. Ozark, delta, and ouachita folklore is the same kind of reader path: useful for search, unused as math. Agency 049 on a different state's overlay is a sibling join, not a remainder that must add to a national NSF budget on this page. Arkansas's $148,238,576 cell stands alone. Do not subtract it from National Science Foundation and call the difference 'Arkansas versus everywhere else' without a published national total in this packet — there is none. National Science Foundation is the awarding-agency label stored on the Arkansas overlay; the numeric key is 049. Readers who only remember the short name NSF still need both the state tag and the agency tag before quoting $148,238,576. The 159 figure is not a count of unique campuses or principal investigators and is not a count of distinct NSF programs. Modifications can add rows without adding new vendors. That is another reason the mean of about $932,318.09 is not a typical research-grant award. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. This file copies overlayTarget /states/ar/agencies/049/ and canonicalPath /ties/national-science-foundation-in-arkansas/ from the packet. It does not add a fiscal year, a contractor, or an FEC dollar. If the live overlay later disagrees with $148,238,576 or 159, trust the table and treat this prose as dated to the extract. Until then, the reusable facts are $148,238,576, 159 awards, agency 049, National Science Foundation, Arkansas (AR), and the obligation unit.

Questions

What is the NSF obligation total for Arkansas?

USAspending.gov records $148,238,576 in obligations for awarding agency 049 (National Science Foundation) with Arkansas place of performance, covering 159 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not National Science Foundation's nationwide budget. The pair is a join, not a ranking.

Does this Arkansas NSF extract name campuses?

The extract lists 159 award actions totaling $148,238,576. Average obligation per award is about $932,318.09, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical research-grant award. Unique campuses or principal investigators are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Are Oklahoma or Missouri NSF awards in this Arkansas cell?

No. $148,238,576 and 159 awards are statewide Arkansas place of performance. This packet does not split Little Rock, Fayetteville, and Fort Smith. Awards coded to Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, or Oklahoma are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Little Rock. The geography key remains AR.

Which overlay shows NSF (049) in Arkansas?

National Science Foundation in Arkansas is the overlay. Arkansas 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 the source sites.