National Science Foundation federal obligations in Virginia

NSF awards tagged to Virginia

National Science Foundation as awarding agency, Virginia as place-of-performance: 1,724 records summing to $3,283,230,020.76. A National Science Foundation award coded outside VA is out. An award in Virginia from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Virginia (VA) excludes Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and the District of Columbia. A College Park-coded award is Maryland.

One thousand seven hundred twenty-four awards is a mid-count NSF file: typical research-award volume, not an assistance flood. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,724 as 1,724 unique unique PIs, publications, or campus labs. The overlay National Science Foundation in Virginia is the both-keys table. Virginia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. National Science Foundation is the agency book without a VA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Alexandria headquarters folklore is not a place-of-performance split. $3,283,230,020.76 stays on 049 × VA. Correlation is not causation: Virginia did not “cause” $3,283,230,020.76 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 049 × VA only.

Not campus labs or a publication score

$3,283,230,020.76 does not measure unique PIs, publications, or campus labs. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 049 and a VA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,724 awards as a census of unique PIs, publications, or campus labs. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Virginia federal spending or National Science Foundation matched $3,283,230,020.76 and 1,724, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Maryland, North Carolina, and District of Columbia NSF joins are other pairs, not addends.

Virginia, not a DMV science rollup

Place of performance VA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Virginia (VA) excludes Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and the District of Columbia. A College Park-coded award is Maryland. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Alexandria headquarters folklore is not a place-of-performance split. $3,283,230,020.76 stays on 049 × VA. This packet does not split $3,283,230,020.76 by city, county, or named facility. 1,724 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Research vehicles versus cash already paid

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $3,283,230,020.76 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Virginia confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Virginia’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,724-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $3,283,230,020.76.

Citing NSF in Virginia

Cite USAspending.gov: National Science Foundation (agency 049) obligated $3,283,230,020.76 on 1,724 awards coded to Virginia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as unique PIs, publications, or campus labs.

Prefer National Science Foundation in Virginia if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Virginia federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to VA. National Science Foundation is the 049 parent without the VA filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,283,230,020.76.

A usable footnote names National Science Foundation, Virginia, $3,283,230,020.76, and 1,724. The compact headline $3.28 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1.90 million is $3,283,230,020.76 divided by 1,724. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the National Science Foundation obligated in Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $3,283,230,020.76 across 1,724 awards with awarding agency 049 and a Virginia tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unique PIs, publications, or campus labs. National Science Foundation in Virginia is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $3,283,230,020.76.

Is $3,283,230,020.76 a measure of unique PIs, publications, or campus labs?

No. The packet publishes $3,283,230,020.76 and 1,724 awards for agency 049 inside VA coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this NSF file have 1,724 awards?

That is the award-record count for 049 × VA. Combined with $3,283,230,020.76, the average is about $1.90 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,724 is not unique unique PIs, publications, or campus labs. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

National Science Foundation in Virginia is the overlay. Virginia federal spending and National Science Foundation are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $3,283,230,020.76. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.