Department of Transportation in Alaska

DOT awards tagged to Alaska

Department of Transportation as awarding agency, Alaska as place-of-performance: 2,173 records summing to $4,713,221,754.11. A Department of Transportation award coded outside AK is out. An award in Alaska from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Alaska (AK) is a distinct place-of-performance key. Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii DOT rows are other cells. A Seattle-coded aviation award is Washington.

Two thousand one hundred seventy-three awards sits in a moderate DOT band. Highway, aviation, and maritime offices can share 069 without this packet naming which dominate. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 2,173 as 2,173 unique lane-miles, ferry routes, unique contractors, or named airports. The overlay Department of Transportation in Alaska is the both-keys table. Alaska federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Transportation is the agency book without an AK filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Ted Stevens Anchorage International and the Marine Highway are unpublished facilities. $4,713,221,754.11 stays statewide. Correlation is not causation: Alaska did not “cause” $4,713,221,754.11 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 069 × AK only.

Not a ferry, runway, or pipeline census

$4,713,221,754.11 does not measure lane-miles, ferry routes, unique contractors, or named airports. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 069 and an AK place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 2,173 awards as a census of lane-miles, ferry routes, unique contractors, or named airports. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Alaska federal spending or Department of Transportation matched $4,713,221,754.11 and 2,173, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Washington and Oregon DOT joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of Transportation obligated in Alaska?

USAspending.gov records $4,713,221,754.11 across 2,173 awards with awarding agency 069 and an Alaska tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of lane-miles, ferry routes, unique contractors, or named airports. Department of Transportation in Alaska is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $4,713,221,754.11.

Is $4,713,221,754.11 a measure of lane-miles, ferry routes, unique contractors, or named airports?

No. The packet publishes $4,713,221,754.11 and 2,173 awards for agency 069 inside AK coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this DOT file have 2,173 awards?

That is the award-record count for 069 × AK. Combined with $4,713,221,754.11, the average is about $2.17 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 2,173 is not unique lane-miles, ferry routes, unique contractors, or named airports. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Transportation in Alaska is the overlay. Alaska federal spending and Department of Transportation are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $4,713,221,754.11. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.