NASA Science program obligations in the District of Columbia

What CFDA 43.001 crossed with DC actually is

CFDA 43.001 is titled SCIENCE. Filtered to District of Columbia place of performance, obligations sum to $229,486,666.46 on 254 awards. The national 43.001 hub has no DC filter. The District’s spending hub has no CFDA filter. This tie is the intersection. $229,486,666.46 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of spacecraft or investigators.

Aeronautics, space technology, and exploration catalogs use different NASA CFDA numbers. Mixing them into $229,486,666.46 would invent a broader NASA total than this cell contains. Packet facts are $229,486,666.46, 254 awards, DC, and 43.001. Correlation is not causation. The catalog title is the word Science, not a claim that every science grant in the District is NASA.

Two hundred fifty-four awards under DC Science

254 awards against $229,486,666.46 yield a simple mean near $903,491. The facts do not publish a median, a range, or unique recipients. 254 is a record count in an aggregate, not 254 laboratories and not 254 missions. Headquarters-area awards can include associations, universities, and other assistance instruments tagged to a District address.

Treat the mean as arithmetic, not as a typical grant size. Unique recipient names are unpublished and are not invented here. Downward modifications, if they exist in the raw file, are already netted into the total supplied in the facts. Do not annualize $229,486,666.46; this packet publishes no year field.

District of Columbia geography on the 43.001 tag

DC is the place-of-performance code. An award can post to a District headquarters or association address even when work occurs elsewhere. Awards coded to Maryland, Virginia, or other states stay outside $229,486,666.46 even when a collaborator sits there. The facts do not split the 254 awards by ward.

District of Columbia federal spending is the all-program parent. 43.001 is one row on District of Columbia programs. $229.5 million is not the District’s complete federal footprint. Open Science in District of Columbia for the filtered table, CFDA 43.001 for the catalog without a DC filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $229,486,666.46.

What NASA Science in the District does not prove

A large 43.001 total tagged to the District of Columbia does not measure flight hardware delivered, papers published, or missions flown. It does not equal invoices paid. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. The headline remains $229,486,666.46 on 254 awards for Science in the District of Columbia.

Keep both sides of the join: Science (CFDA 43.001) and the District of Columbia, obligations only. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a space-policy story. Contractor names are not in the facts.

Using the DC × 43.001 overlay

The overlay target is the District of Columbia × CFDA 43.001 table. Open Science in District of Columbia when you want the same $229,486,666.46 / 254-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 43.001 drops the DC filter. District of Columbia federal spending drops the CFDA filter. District of Columbia programs lists other catalogs beside 43.001. All spending ties indexes other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance geography. It does not exist to rank the District against other geographies, to name contractors, or to treat obligations as cash. The pair is 43.001 plus DC. Obligations of $229,486,666.46 are not outlays. Cite Science together with the District of Columbia whenever you reuse $229,486,666.46. 254 remains an award-record count on USAspending.gov. The overlay path is the live table for this 43.001 × DC cell. Later bulk files can restate $229,486,666.46 without changing the join key.

Limits of the packet facts for DC 43.001

The packet publishes four numbers and two labels: $229,486,666.46, 254 awards, District of Columbia, and CFDA 43.001 titled Science. It does not publish fiscal year, unique recipients, mission names, or outlays. Headquarters versus field-center work is not distinguished in the facts.

Researchers who need award-level rows should open the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than stretch $229,486,666.46 into a NASA portfolio ranking. The join is a filter, not a causal claim. FEC files do not explain the 254 awards. Keep Science named with the District of Columbia in every reuse of $229,486,666.46. AwardCount stays 254 until a new ingest revises it.

Questions

How much NASA Science funding is obligated in the District of Columbia?

USAspending records $229,486,666.46 in CFDA 43.001 obligations with District of Columbia place of performance across 254 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not a mission census. Keep Science and the District of Columbia together when citing $229,486,666.46.

Does 254 awards mean 254 DC research labs?

No. The facts report 254 award records totaling $229,486,666.46. Recipient names are unpublished. One organization can post many instruments. 254 is a record count, not a lab census. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 43.001 × DC pair.

Is this the District’s total federal NASA spending?

No. This join is CFDA 43.001 only. Other NASA catalogs appear on separate District of Columbia program pages. Nationwide 43.001 is not limited to DC. Obligations of $229,486,666.46 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Science–District of Columbia table.

Do campaign donations fund DC NASA Science awards?

No. FEC contribution files and USAspending award files are different datasets. This page reports $229,486,666.46 in 43.001 obligations tagged to the District of Columbia. Correlation is not causation. Do not treat donations as the funding source.