Vermont vs Virginia

A billion-dollar stock with 12,020 awards

USAspending.gov obligations, not Treasury outlays, put Vermont at $1.0B and Virginia at $110.8B. Vermont’s 12,020 awards are few next to Virginia’s 1,116,647. A missile-and-space-parts lead industry is consistent with a specialized, relatively concentrated production file rather than a high-count services market.

Vermont’s 648,493 residents make it one of the smaller denominators in this set. Even so, $1.0B does not produce a high per-capita reading once $72.92 is compared with Virginia’s $1,344.24. Small population plus a modest dollar stock still yields a low-intensity state in this pair.

FY2026 is the Vermont plot twist: $47.3M

FY2026 obligations of $47.3M in Vermont are a small slice of the $1.0B stack. Virginia’s FY2026 figure is $11.8B inside $110.8B. Anyone asking what agencies booked most recently should use $47.3M, not $1.0B. The stacked total is older work as well as new.

Production lots for missile and space-vehicle parts can be obligated in a burst and then pay out, or sit in the historical aggregate, without repeating at the same pace every fiscal year. That is a reason Vermont’s latest-year cut looks thin relative to the stock. Both cuts remain obligations.

Vermont’s $47.3M FY2026 cut is the figure that should travel with the $1.0B stack whenever someone asks about recent bookings. Most of Vermont’s aggregate in this file sits outside the latest year. Virginia’s $11.8B latest year inside $110.8B is a large current layer. Twelve thousand twenty awards on a guided-missile and space-vehicle-parts lead describe a specialist manufacturing file on 648,493 residents at $72.92 per capita, against Virginia’s $1,344.24 on 8,811,195 residents and 1,116,647 awards. Production lots can be obligated in a burst. That burst is why stock and recency diverge. Both remain USAspending.gov obligations, not Treasury outlays.

Questions

How do Vermont and Virginia compare on federal spending?

Vermont has $1.0B in USAspending.gov obligations and 12,020 awards; Virginia has $110.8B and 1,116,647 awards. Spending per capita is $72.92 versus $1,344.24 on populations of 648,493 and 8,811,195. FY2026 obligations are $47.3M and $11.8B. These are 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.

Why is Vermont’s FY2026 total so small compared with its $1.0B stack?

FY2026 shows $47.3M in Vermont against a $1.0B stacked total, so most of the aggregate sits in earlier years in this file. Virginia’s FY2026 figure is $11.8B inside $110.8B. Latest-year cuts measure recency; stacked totals measure the full USAspending.gov aggregate. Both are obligations.

What is Vermont’s top industry vs Virginia’s?

Vermont’s top industry is other guided missile and space vehicle parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing. Virginia’s is other computer related services. Those slices sit on $1.0B and $110.8B in obligations and on 12,020 vs 1,116,647 awards. Those figures remain USAspending.gov obligations by place of performance, not Treasury outlays and not a score of which state deserves more work.

Are Vermont vs Virginia figures outlays?

No. They are obligations from USAspending.gov. Treasury outlays are cash payments and can lag on production lots. The $1.0B and $110.8B totals and FY2026 amounts of $47.3M and $11.8B measure award commitments by place of performance. Those figures remain USAspending.gov obligations by place of performance, not Treasury outlays and not a score of which state deserves more work.