Polar Programs awarded by National Science Foundation

Polar Programs × NSF is CFDA 47.078, not a station census

This page is a join: Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) and the National Science Foundation (agency 049). $520,700,906 is the obligation sum on that pair. It is not the government-wide assistance total, not every CFDA on All programs, and not cash already paid. Correlation is not causation: a large pair cell does not prove the National Science Foundation caused activity described by the program title, or the reverse. Campaign-finance tables are a different dataset; FEC donations do not fund these USAspending obligations.

/programs/47.078/ is the program parent without an awarding-agency filter. /agencies/049/ is the agency parent without this CFDA filter. /ties/ lists other pairs and /programs/ lists other CFDA hubs. A Polar Programs award tagged to a different awarding agency sits outside this cell even if the CFDA is still 47.078. A National Science Foundation award on a different CFDA sits outside even if the topic sounds related. Five hundred twenty awards is not 520 unique polar stations. Research grants and logistics instruments add rows.

Polar Programs as the program side

CFDA 47.078 is Polar Programs. Confusing this join with other NSF research CFDAs, USGS polar science folklore, or a logistics-contractor ranking would be a different table. Packet facts on the program side are the name Polar Programs, number 47.078, and program-wide obligations $520,700,906. This packet lists no award recipients and no contractor names. Any other vendor, school, tribe, carrier, or grantee list would be invented.

National Science Foundation as the awarding-agency side

Awarding-agency code 049 is the National Science Foundation. It is not a bureau split inside that department, not a place-of-performance state, and not a NAICS industry. In this extract the pair cell $520,700,906 matches the program-wide obligation total $520,700,906. Do not treat the program-wide $520,700,906 as if it were automatically the pair headline when the two figures differ. When they match, equality still does not name recipients.

National Science Foundation shows how Polar Programs sits beside other CFDAs the National Science Foundation awards. This packet has no outlay total, no recipient roster, and no fiscal-year split. Station names, investigator identities, or antarctic-versus-arctic splits are unpublished. Station names, investigator identities, and logistics-contractor lists are unpublished on this packet.

520 awards behind the polar–NSF cell

The extract lists 520 awards on the Polar Programs × NSF pair. A mid-size polar-research file: 520 awards against a large obligation total. Dividing $520,700,906 by 520 yields about $1.00 million per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical invoice and not a median. Unique recipients are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without naming a new organization. 520 is not a station census, a named-PI roster, or a field-season headcount.

520 is the pair’s award-record count in this extract, not a published recipient census. Unique vendors and places of performance are unpublished. Do not read 520 as 520 finished projects under Polar Programs.

Polar-program obligations are not field-season invoices already paid

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $520,700,906 is the former. Citing it as cash already cleared over-reads the field. The join cannot say that the National Science Foundation specialized in polar programs because of federal demand. Keep $520,700,906 labeled as Polar Programs obligations awarded by the National Science Foundation. It is not a station census, a named-PI roster, or a field-season headcount. The packet publishes no fiscal year, so this page does not invent one.

Hubs for Polar Programs awarded by NSF

Open /programs/47.078/ for CFDA 47.078, /agencies/049/ for National Science Foundation, /programs/ for All programs, and /ties/ for All spending ties. None of those links convert this cell into other NSF research CFDAs, USGS polar science folklore, or a logistics-contractor ranking, into outlays this packet omits, or into a contractor list. Cite both sides: Polar Programs and National Science Foundation, CFDA 47.078, agency 049, $520,700,906, 520 awards, USAspending.gov, obligations only.

Questions

How much did National Science Foundation award under Polar Programs?

USAspending.gov records $520,700,906 in Polar Programs obligations awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.078, agency 049). That is an obligation aggregate for the program–agency pair, not an outlay and not a government-wide total.

Is Polar Programs via NSF cash already spent on field seasons?

No. $520,700,906 is an obligation sum, not an outlay. Payments from the Treasury can lag or differ. This packet has no outlay total for Polar Programs via NSF. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both the CFDA number and the awarding-agency code in the citation.

Do 520 awards mean 520 polar research stations?

No. 520 is the pair’s award-record count, not a published recipient census. Unique vendors and places are unpublished. Modifications can add rows. The implied mean is about $1.00 million, a quotient, not a typical award. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Which pages parent Polar Programs awarded by NSF?

/programs/47.078/ is the program parent. /agencies/049/ is the National Science Foundation parent. /programs/ lists CFDA hubs. /ties/ lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later ingests; this page quotes Polar Programs × NSF at $520,700,906. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.