Department of Homeland Security in Alabama

DHS awards tagged to Alabama

Department of Homeland Security as awarding agency, Alabama as place-of-performance: 1,066 records summing to $3,154,915,308.18. A Department of Homeland Security award coded outside AL is out. An award in Alabama from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Alabama (AL) excludes Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi. A Pensacola-coded award is Florida.

One thousand sixty-six awards is a mid-thin DHS file: neither a handful of disaster vehicles nor an assistance flood. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,066 as 1,066 unique disaster declarations, border crossings, or named FEMA events. The overlay Department of Homeland Security in Alabama is the both-keys table. Alabama federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Homeland Security is the agency book without an AL filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Port of Mobile folklore is not named in the facts. Do not assign $3,154,915,308.18 to a facility. Correlation is not causation: Alabama did not “cause” $3,154,915,308.18 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 070 × AL only.

Not FEMA declarations or a Gulf score

$3,154,915,308.18 does not measure disaster declarations, border crossings, or named FEMA events. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 070 and an AL place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,066 awards as a census of disaster declarations, border crossings, or named FEMA events. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Alabama federal spending or Department of Homeland Security matched $3,154,915,308.18 and 1,066, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Florida, Mississippi, and Georgia DHS joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of Homeland Security obligated in Alabama?

USAspending.gov records $3,154,915,308.18 across 1,066 awards with awarding agency 070 and an Alabama tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of disaster declarations, border crossings, or named FEMA events. Department of Homeland Security in Alabama is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $3,154,915,308.18.

Is $3,154,915,308.18 a measure of disaster declarations, border crossings, or named FEMA events?

No. The packet publishes $3,154,915,308.18 and 1,066 awards for agency 070 inside AL 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 DHS file have 1,066 awards?

That is the award-record count for 070 × AL. Combined with $3,154,915,308.18, the average is about $2.96 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,066 is not unique disaster declarations, border crossings, or named FEMA events. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Homeland Security in Alabama is the overlay. Alabama federal spending and Department of Homeland Security are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $3,154,915,308.18. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.