National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Mississippi

A thin NASA file on Mississippi

National Aeronautics and Space Administration as awarding agency, Mississippi as place-of-performance: 241 records summing to $3,338,865,662.48. A National Aeronautics and Space Administration award coded outside MS is out. An award in Mississippi from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Mississippi (MS) excludes Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee. A Louisiana-coded NASA award is not this cell even if the Gulf story is the same.

Two hundred forty-one awards against $3,338,865,662.48 is a thin, high-mean NASA file, thicker than Utah’s 151-row NASA cell and still not a facility roster. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 241 as 241 unique engine tests, unique contractors, or named test stands. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Mississippi is the both-keys table. Mississippi federal spending is the all-agency state hub. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency book without an MS filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Stennis-style place names are unpublished. Do not assign $3,338,865,662.48 to a named Mississippi center. Correlation is not causation: Mississippi did not cause $3,338,865,662.48 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 080 × MS only. Campaign contributions do not fund these USAspending awards.

241 rows are not 241 engine tests

$3,338,865,662.48 does not measure engine tests, unique contractors, or named test stands. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 080 and an MS place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 241 awards as a census of engine tests, unique contractors, or named test stands. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Mississippi federal spending or National Aeronautics and Space Administration matched $3,338,865,662.48 and 241, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Alabama, Louisiana, and the Utah NASA join in this slice are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the National Aeronautics and Space Administration obligated in Mississippi?

USAspending.gov records $3,338,865,662.48 across 241 awards with awarding agency 080 and a Mississippi tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of engine tests, unique contractors, or named test stands. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Mississippi is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $3,338,865,662.48.

Is $3,338,865,662.48 a measure of engine tests, unique contractors, or named test stands?

No. The packet publishes $3,338,865,662.48 and 241 awards for agency 080 inside MS 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 NASA file have 241 awards?

That is the award-record count for 080 × MS. Combined with $3,338,865,662.48, the average is about $13.85 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 241 is not unique engine tests, unique contractors, or named test stands. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live NASA–Mississippi table?

National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Mississippi is the overlay. Mississippi federal spending and National Aeronautics and Space Administration are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $3,338,865,662.48. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.