Department of State in District of Columbia
Federal obligations from Department of State to District of Columbia
Total obligated
$13.41B
Awards
15K
USAspending.gov records $13,336,955,209.34 in Department of State obligations under awarding agency 019 with place of performance in the District of Columbia, across 14,876 awards. This is a different filter from the District cell that uses agency 072. More awards sit here while the dollars are lower than that other code’s District total. Mean obligation on this 019 cell is about $896,542 per award ($13,336,955,209.34 ÷ 14,876).
Key figures
- State Department agency 019 shows $13,336,955,209.34 in DC place-of-performance obligations on 14,876 awards.
- Mean obligation is about $896,542 per award — more rows, lower mean than the 072 District cell.
- Agency codes 019 and 072 are separate filters with separate overlays.
- The total is not worldwide diplomatic spending.
- USAspending obligations are not outlays.
Two State Department codes, two District cells
SpendingVault stores awarding agency by code. This tie uses 019 and overlay /states/dc/agencies/019/. Another District page uses 072 and a different overlay. Both English labels say Department of State. The dollars, award counts, and URLs do not match. Merging $13,336,955,209.34 with the 072 total would double-count or mis-count depending on how the source maps the codes.
Fourteen thousand eight hundred seventy-six awards under $13,336,955,209.34 produces a mean near $896,542. That mean belongs to code 019 only. It still does not identify which components or instruments sit in each State Department-labeled code.
Agency 019’s 14,876 District awards are the high-count counterpart to other State Department-labeled overlays that use different codes. High count does not mean 019 is the “real” State Department and another code is a duplicate. USAspending’s toptier mapping is the reason both exist. $13,336,955,209.34 belongs only to 019 and DC.
Agency 019 as the awarding side
The Department of State hub linked from this page is /agencies/019/. Virginia also has an agency 019 cell. Those are different geographies on the same code. The District 019 cell is only the DC geography: $13,336,955,209.34 and 14,876 awards.
Readers comparing 019 with 072 should keep the overlay paths straight. Shared branding in the agency name is not a license to add the two District totals together without checking how USAspending assigns toptier codes.
Full analysis: Department of State (agency 019) federal obligations in the District of Columbia →
Questions
- How much has State Department agency 019 obligated in DC?
- USAspending records $13,336,955,209.34 in agency 019 obligations with District of Columbia place of performance, across 14,876 awards. That is a different cell from agency 072’s District total.
- Should I add the 019 and 072 District totals together?
- Not from this page. They are separate awarding-agency codes with separate overlays (019 and 072). Adding $13,336,955,209.34 to the 072 figure would assume the codes never overlap and that both belong in one department total — an assumption the facts do not settle.
- Why are there more awards here than on the other State–DC page?
- This filter has 14,876 awards. The 072 District filter uses a different code and a different award count. More rows here produce a lower mean of about $896,542.
- Is this the State Department’s worldwide spending?
- No. Only DC place of performance and agency 019 enter $13,336,955,209.34. Other states and other agency codes sit on other pages.
USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.
How this pair fits
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