Department of Commerce in Alaska

Agency 013 on Alaska-coded awards

This tie keeps USAspending rows where Commerce is the awarding agency and Alaska is the place of performance. The dollar book is $2,440,043,777.83. The award count is 620. Those facts describe a coding intersection. They do not prove that Commerce chose Alaska because of seafood, oil-support services, or remote census work.

Commerce bureaus include ocean, statistical, and standards shops whose contracts can land on ports, aircraft, and survey contractors. This packet does not split the 620 rows by bureau. A fisheries-survey action and a broadband or statistical task order can share the same statewide cell. Correlation is not causation.

Place-of-performance in Alaska can follow a vessel home port, a regional office, or a contractor address in Anchorage or Juneau. Work that occurs in federal waters or in another state can still carry an Alaska tag, and the reverse is true. The 620 figure counts award records, including modifications, not unique vessels or villages.

Six hundred twenty awards under $2.44 billion

Dividing $2,440,043,777.83 by 620 awards yields an implied mean near $3,935,554. That blended average can hide a few large survey, ship, or facilities vehicles next to many smaller grants. The packet has no median and no bureau shares.

Six hundred twenty rows is a compact tape for $2.44 billion compared with high-volume loan files. Cite volume and dollars together. USAspending.gov is the source. Do not treat the mean as a typical NOAA contract price.

Alaska’s size and coastline make place-of-performance especially easy to misread. A survey aircraft, a port contractor, or a Juneau office can carry an Alaska tag while the work spans federal waters or other states. $2,440,043,777.83 remains an awarding-agency 013 × Alaska coding sum on 620 awards. Do not convert that cell into a fisheries-value score or into Treasury cash. The overlay is the live table if this snapshot and the hub diverge.

Questions

How much Department of Commerce spending is in Alaska?

USAspending.gov shows $2,440,043,777.83 in Commerce obligations coded to Alaska across 620 awards. Awarding-agency 013 and Alaska place of performance define the join. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Does this total measure Alaska fisheries or shipping?

No. $2,440,043,777.83 and 620 awards are award-file coding totals. They are not landing volumes, vessel counts, or a trade score. Bureau splits are not in this packet.

What is the average Commerce award in Alaska?

The implied mean is about $3,935,554 from $2,440,043,777.83 divided by 620 awards. That quotient is blended. The packet has no median and no bureau split.

Are Commerce obligations in Alaska the same as outlays?

No. $2,440,043,777.83 is an obligation sum. Outlays are cash payments and can lag on multi-year survey or facilities vehicles. SpendingVault does not convert this cell into cash.