Office of Science Financial Assistance obligations in Michigan

One hundred eighty-four research records, one DOE cell

This tie keeps USAspending assistance where CFDA 81.049 meets Michigan place of performance. The dollar book is $1,588,541,633.40. The award count is 184. Office of Science financial assistance typically posts as grants and cooperative agreements to universities, national-lab partners, and other research organizations. One hundred eighty-four records do not equal 184 principal investigators; modifications and multi-year continuations can share the tape.

The join does not prove that Michigan’s auto-industry research base, Great Lakes environmental science, or a particular university ranking caused $1,588,541,633.40. Those are other series. This packet does not split high-energy physics from basic energy sciences. Correlation is not causation.

A reader who treats the cell as Michigan’s full Energy Department obligation book has left the CFDA-by-state definition. Other DOE catalog numbers sit elsewhere on the statewide stack. The 184 figure is a record count, not a lab-staff headcount.

A research-grant tape, not a formula block

One hundred eighty-four awards under $1,588,541,633.40 imply a mean near $8,633,378 per award. A few large cooperative agreements or facility-related actions can pull that average up while many smaller grants sit below it. The packet has no median and no share on the largest ten awards.

Compared with Michigan’s three-award Title I cell, 184 rows is a much thicker tape for a similar dollar order of magnitude. That contrast is a filing pattern: competitive science assistance posts at a finer grain than SEA formula grants. Cite both columns. USAspending.gov is the source; SpendingVault does not recast the mean as a typical R01-style project.

Michigan’s 81.049 cell versus BEAD and Title I

Michigan’s state hub stacks every CFDA with performance coded to the state. Office of Science financial assistance is one DOE line. BEAD and Title I are different catalog numbers. $1,588,541,633.40 is not Michigan’s all-program total. The nationwide CFDA 81.049 page includes every state, so it is not this cell.

Place-of-performance for a multi-institution collaboration can sit on Michigan even when co-PIs work elsewhere. This packet does not reallocate subawards. Read the overlay as a coding view of 184 awards.

Obligations versus lab spending

The $1,588,541,633.40 figure is an obligation sum. Multi-year science vehicles can draw down years after the obligation posts. SpendingVault does not publish an 81.049-in-Michigan outlay total in this packet. Mixing publication counts or patent statistics with this award file leaves the USAspending series.

Cite the join as CFDA 81.049 × Michigan, $1,588,541,633.40, 184 awards, obligations only.

Where the table lives

The Michigan × Office of Science Financial Assistance overlay is the table view. Recipient slices on that hub still sum toward $1,588,541,633.40 on 184 awards. The Michigan spending page and the CFDA 81.049 program page are the parents. The Michigan programs index and the ties index list other pairs.

None of those links convert the cell into a PI count or into outlays this packet omits.

What Michigan Office of Science assistance is not

The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program in Michigan is not a ranking of universities and not a count of user-facility hours. The $1,588,541,633.40 figure is the CFDA 81.049 × Michigan cell. One hundred eighty-four awards describe competitive science filing, including continuations, not 184 principal investigators. High-energy physics, basic energy sciences, and other program offices are not split here.

Title I and BEAD in Michigan post as thin tapes on different catalog numbers. Similar dollar order of magnitude and opposite award-count patterns are a filing contrast. Cite 81.049 and Michigan together, keep the obligation label, and keep the 184-award count. Multi-year science vehicles can draw down years after the obligation posts.

Michigan’s Office of Science cell also does not include program-office splits, user-facility hour totals, or co-PI maps. Those series live with DOE. SpendingVault cites USAspending.gov obligations only: CFDA 81.049 × Michigan, $1,588,541,633.40, 184 awards. If a later extract revises the 184-row tape, the implied mean near $8,633,378 moves with it. Quote the packet facts and the overlay path rather than a university ranking.

Questions

How much Office of Science financial assistance is in Michigan?

USAspending.gov shows $1,588,541,633.40 in CFDA 81.049 obligations coded to Michigan across 184 awards. The join uses the program number and Michigan place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Does 184 awards mean 184 research projects?

The extract counts 184 award records tagged to CFDA 81.049 and Michigan. Continuations and modifications can appear as separate records. The implied mean is about $8,633,378 per award from the two packet facts. Program-office splits are not in this packet.

Is $1.59 billion Michigan’s full DOE spending?

No. $1,588,541,633.40 is only the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program cell. Other CFDA programs with Michigan place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Nationwide 81.049 is not limited to Michigan.

Do these obligations equal cash spent in labs?

No. $1,588,541,633.40 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Multi-year research vehicles can remain open after the obligation posts.