Kansas vs Virginia

Same broad sector, a $2.9B vs $110.8B outcome

These totals are USAspending.gov obligations, not Treasury outlays. Kansas’s $2.9B and Virginia’s $110.8B can both be described as IT-tinged at the top of the industry list. That description would mislead anyone who stopped at the labels. Virginia’s file is about 38 times Kansas’s in dollars.

Award counts: 71,423 in Kansas and 1,116,647 in Virginia. Kansas has a real professional-services award stream. It does not have Virginia’s concentration of federal IT work around the National Capital region. Shared vocabulary (“computer”) is not shared scale.

Sixty-seven dollars per person vs $1,344

Kansas’s $67.40 per capita is among the lower rates in this comparison set. Virginia’s $1,344.24 is not. Census populations of 2,970,606 and 8,811,195 explain only a slice of the $2.9B versus $110.8B gap. After dividing by people, Kansas still looks like a low-intensity federal-award state in this pair.

A systems-design lead industry can exist in a state that does not otherwise resemble Northern Virginia. The per-capita column is the check against assuming that an IT label means a Virginia-like obligation load.

Questions

How do Kansas and Virginia compare on USAspending?

Kansas has $2.9B in obligations and 71,423 awards; Virginia has $110.8B and 1,116,647 awards. Spending per capita is $67.40 versus $1,344.24 on Census populations of 2,970,606 and 8,811,195. FY2026 obligations are $200.2M and $11.8B. Figures are USAspending.gov obligations, not Treasury outlays. Those figures remain USAspending.gov obligations by place of performance, not Treasury outlays and not a score of which state deserves more work.

Do Kansas and Virginia have the same top federal contracting industry?

They are adjacent, not identical. Kansas’s top industry is computer systems design services. Virginia’s is other computer related services. Both are computer-related, but they sit on $2.9B versus $110.8B in obligations. Shared sector language does not imply similar award scale. Those figures remain USAspending.gov obligations by place of performance, not Treasury outlays and not a score of which state deserves more work.

What is Kansas’s federal spending per capita vs Virginia’s?

Kansas is at $67.40 per person; Virginia is at $1,344.24. Those rates use $2.9B and $110.8B in obligations and populations of 2,970,606 and 8,811,195. The per-capita gap remains large after population is divided out. Those figures remain USAspending.gov obligations by place of performance, not Treasury outlays and not a score of which state deserves more work.

Are the Kansas vs Virginia totals outlays?

No. They are obligations from USAspending.gov. Treasury outlays are cash disbursements and can lag. The $2.9B and $110.8B stacked totals and the FY2026 amounts of $200.2M and $11.8B measure legal commitments on awards, not payments already made. Those figures remain USAspending.gov obligations by place of performance, not Treasury outlays and not a score of which state deserves more work.