Department of Commerce in Montana

A very thin Commerce file on Montana

Department of Commerce as awarding agency, Montana as place-of-performance: 79 records summing to $890,050,710.24. A Department of Commerce award coded outside MT is out. An award in Montana from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Montana (MT) excludes Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota. A Coeur d’Alene-coded award is Idaho even if the timber story sounds similar.

Seventy-nine awards against $890,050,710.24 is a thin Commerce book. The implied mean is large and is not a typical project size. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 79 as 79 unique exporters, inland ports, or NOAA landings. The overlay Department of Commerce in Montana is the both-keys table. Montana federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Commerce is the agency book without an MT filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Billings, Missoula, and Bozeman share one MT stamp. NIST, NOAA, Census, and EDA can share awarding-agency 013 without a published bureau pie. Correlation is not causation: Montana did not cause $890,050,710.24 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 013 × MT only.

Not an exporter or landing census

$890,050,710.24 does not measure exporters, inland ports, or NOAA landings. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 013 and an MT place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 79 awards as a census of exporters, inland ports, or NOAA landings. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Montana federal spending or Department of Commerce matched $890,050,710.24 and 79, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighbor-state Commerce joins are other pairs, not addends. Dividing $890,050,710.24 by 79 yields about $11,266,464.69 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical Commerce line and not a published median.

Questions

How much has the Department of Commerce obligated in Montana?

USAspending.gov records $890,050,710.24 across 79 awards with awarding agency 013 and a Montana tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of exporters, inland ports, or NOAA landings. Department of Commerce in Montana is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $890,050,710.24.

Is $890,050,710.24 a measure of exporters?

No. The packet publishes $890,050,710.24 and 79 awards for agency 013 inside MT coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays. The implied mean is about $11,266,464.69, a ratio of two packet facts.

Is this a Billings-only Commerce total?

No. $890,050,710.24 and 79 awards are statewide Montana place of performance. Billings, Missoula, and Bozeman share one MT stamp. This packet does not publish a city split. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Commerce–Montana table?

Department of Commerce in Montana is the overlay. Montana federal spending and Department of Commerce are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $890,050,710.24. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.