FY2024 USAspending in Arkansas’s 3rd district

34,185 awards in AR-03’s FY2024 file

34,185 awards is the FY2024 record count for AR-03 place of performance. That is a high action count next to $6.8B, but it is still a row stock, not a headcount of Arkansas firms. The packet does not list unique recipients or an agency mix. Modifications and assistance actions can each add a line.

Do not treat 34,185 as 34,185 local companies. One recipient can appear many times. This page will not publish an average award as if USAspending printed one. Sort the Arkansas District 03 hub by amount to see whether $6.8B is spread across many lines or concentrated. First year and last year are both 2024.

Place of performance on AR-03, not contractor HQ

USAspending.gov tags AR-03 by where performance is recorded, not by where a vendor keeps its legal address. Work performed in the 3rd district can land inside $6.8B even if the contractor is headquartered in another Arkansas seat or another state. Work performed outside the 3rd does not enter this extract merely because a firm has a local office.

That split is the reason a reader can see an out-of-district name on the hub table. The 34,185 rows follow the performance field. A 3rd-district headquarters can also post dollars to another district when the performance location is coded there. SpendingVault does not recast AR-03 as a roster of firms that live in the 3rd.

What $6.8B measures on the 3rd district file

Agencies obligated $6.8B in federal FY2024 on awards coded to Arkansas District 03 as place of performance. Cite $6,793,611,595.52 when a briefing needs the unrounded figure. This page does not convert that sum into Treasury outlays. The window is a single fiscal year, not a multi-year rollup.

If another Arkansas headline disagrees with $6.8B, check series, fiscal year, and whether geography is performance or headquarters before treating the gap as an error. Multi-year vehicles can obligate here in FY2024 and invoice later. The precise statement is that agencies obligated $6.8B on 34,185 awards with AR-03 place of performance.

District 03 is not Arkansas leftover 90 or 98

Unspecified Arkansas dollars, if USAspending could not map them to a voting district, belong on a 90 page. Non-voting 98 rows are another leftover. At-large 00 is used for single-district states, not for Arkansas. AR-03 is the mapped 3rd seat. Keep $6.8B on District 03. 34,185 awards share that numbered performance code, not a residual bin.

Arkansas District 03 is not the Arkansas statewide total. The state page is the roll-up; this page is District 03 only. Do not add leftover 90/98 rows to $6.8B. The all-districts index lists mapped seats and leftover codes without mixing their dollars.

Citing AR-03 without mixing statewide totals

Arkansas District 03 can be quoted in one sentence: $6.8B in FY2024 USAspending.gov obligations on 34,185 awards with AR-03 place of performance. That sentence already names the series (obligations), the year (federal FY2024), the geography (place of performance, not headquarters), and the district code (AR-03, a numbered 3rd seat rather than leftover 90/98 or at-large 00).

The Arkansas District 03 hub is the live table. The Arkansas page is the statewide obligation index. The all-districts index is the directory of other mapped seats and leftover codes. SpendingVault does not add a unique-recipient count, an agency mix, or an outlay conversion. Do not fold unspecified Arkansas leftover dollars into $6.8B.

Reading AR-03 as a high-volume Arkansas extract

Arkansas District 03 can be briefed as $6.8B in FY2024 obligations on 34,185 awards with numbered code AR-03. Treat 34,185 as an action stock, not unique vendors. Keep other Arkansas numbered districts and any District 90 leftover on other rows. What this packet supplies is AR-03 place-of-performance commitments from USAspending.gov, not outlays, not a headquarters extract, and not a multi-year series.

The Arkansas District 03 hub is the live table. The Arkansas page is the statewide obligation index. The all-districts index is the directory of other mapped seats and leftover codes. Quote $6.8B only with place of performance, federal FY2024, and the obligation series. Do not fold unspecified Arkansas leftover dollars into $6.8B. Do not average $6.8B across 34,185 awards.

Questions

How many awards are in Arkansas District 03’s FY2024 file?

The FY2024 extract lists 34,185 awards with AR-03 place of performance. That count is record volume, not unique vendors. The matching obligation total is $6.8B ($6,793,611,595.52). Modifications and assistance actions can each add a row. The packet does not publish a unique-recipient total.

Is AR-03 a USAspending leftover 90 or 98 code?

No. District 90 is the unspecified leftover and District 98 is the non-voting bucket. AR-03 is numbered District 03, a voting House seat. At-large 00 is used for single-district states, not Arkansas. Keep $6.8B on the mapped 3rd page. 34,185 awards share the AR-03 tag, not 90, 98, or 00.

Does an AR-03 listing mean the contractor is headquartered in the 3rd?

No. The district field is place of performance. Recipients based outside the 3rd can still appear if the performance location is coded to AR-03. A 3rd-district headquarters can also map dollars to another district when performance is coded there. 34,185 awards follow the performance field, not HQ.

Is $6.8B the amount Treasury paid out in Arkansas District 03?

No. $6.8B is an obligation sum from FY2024 award records. Outlays are a different series. SpendingVault does not convert the Arkansas District 03 obligation total into Treasury outlays. Cite the figure with the obligation label, the FY2024 window, and AR-03 place of performance. 34,185 awards are the matching record count.