Department of Defense in Maryland

Defense awards that carry a Maryland tag

Filter the award file to Department of Defense as awarding agency. Filter again to Maryland place-of-performance. The remainder is $124,991,396,664.06 and 140,507 records. A Navy award coded to Virginia is out. An Agriculture award coded to Maryland is out. The join does not add those leftovers back in.

One hundred forty thousand five hundred seven actions is a busy file. Contracts, modifications, and other award types can all sit in that count. This packet does not break the 140,507 rows by instrument. Do not assume they are all weapons buys. Do not assume they are all headquarters leases.

Dollars divided by records is about $889,600 per award. That mean is pulled around by a mix of large vehicles and a long tail of smaller actions. It is not a unit cost for a platform, and this page will not invent one. The 140,507-award count is the activity side of the Maryland Defense join; $124,991,396,664.06 is the dollar side. They move independently. A year of modifications can thicken the file while the dollar column barely budges. Cite both. Department of Defense in Maryland is the overlay that will show the next ingest.

What the Maryland Defense cell does not prove

Proximity to Washington, D.C., is not a field in this packet. Neither is a named installation. $124,991,396,664.06 is the obligation sum for agency 097 inside MD coding. Treating the sum as a score of Pentagon preference is causation language this join does not support.

Maryland’s full federal extract includes civilian agencies. The Department of Defense national extract includes other states. Department of Defense in Maryland is only the overlap. All spending ties holds the rest of the overlap series. Classified annexes beyond the public award file are not added here. If a program is missing from the 140,507 rows, it may be absent from USAspending.gov rather than zero. Procurement codes, NAICS, and product-service codes are unpublished here. A reader who wants “how much was aircraft versus professional services” needs another extract. This page will not guess a mix from the 140,507-row total. Maryland federal spending still folds in civilian agencies that are not 097.

Questions

How much Defense spending is in Maryland on USAspending?

Department of Defense awarding-agency records sum to $124,991,396,664.06 across 140,507 Maryland-coded awards. That is the 097 × MD join from USAspending.gov, not an outlay total and not Maryland’s full federal book. USAspending.gov is the originating system. Department of Defense in Maryland is the live overlay for this pair. $124,991,396,664.06 remains an obligation sum, not an outlay, across 140,507 awards.

Are the 140,507 awards all contracts for weapons?

The packet gives only an award count of 140,507 and an obligation sum of $124,991,396,664.06. It does not classify those rows by product or service. Modifications and non-weapon actions can sit in the same count. This packet publishes only the Department of Defense (agency 097) join inside Maryland coding. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote $124,991,396,664.06 and 140,507 together.

Does this prove Maryland receives more Pentagon money because of its location?

No. The join is agency 097 plus MD geography. Location narratives are not packet facts. Correlation of a state tag with a Defense total is not causation. SpendingVault indexes the pair; it does not convert $124,991,396,664.06 into cash already paid. Later ingests can revise 140,507 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where do I read the live Maryland Defense table?

Department of Defense in Maryland is the overlay. Maryland federal spending and Department of Defense are the parent hubs. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Maryland federal spending and Department of Defense are parent hubs, not addends. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $124,991,396,664.06. Obligations are not outlays.