Department of Defense in Nebraska

A thick DOD file on Nebraska

Department of Defense as awarding agency, Nebraska as place-of-performance: 27,485 records summing to $4,220,069,029.27. A Department of Defense award coded outside NE is out. An award in Nebraska from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Nebraska (NE) excludes Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, and Missouri. An Offutt-adjacent Iowa-coded award is IA.

Twenty-seven thousand four hundred eighty-five awards is a thick Defense file. Volume can rise on modifications and repeat instruments without each row being a new contract. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 27,485 as 27,485 unique active-duty headcount, named installations, or jobs created. The overlay Department of Defense in Nebraska is the both-keys table. Nebraska federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Defense is the agency book without an NE filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

This packet does not isolate STRATCOM from other 097 offices. $4,220,069,029.27 stays statewide. Correlation is not causation: Nebraska did not “cause” $4,220,069,029.27 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 097 × NE only.

Offutt folklore is not a packet field

$4,220,069,029.27 does not measure active-duty headcount, named installations, or jobs created. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 097 and an NE place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 27,485 awards as a census of active-duty headcount, named installations, or jobs created. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Nebraska federal spending or Department of Defense matched $4,220,069,029.27 and 27,485, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri DOD joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of Defense obligated in Nebraska?

USAspending.gov records $4,220,069,029.27 across 27,485 awards with awarding agency 097 and a Nebraska tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of active-duty headcount, named installations, or jobs created. Department of Defense in Nebraska is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $4,220,069,029.27.

Is $4,220,069,029.27 a measure of active-duty headcount, named installations, or jobs created?

No. The packet publishes $4,220,069,029.27 and 27,485 awards for agency 097 inside NE 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 DOD file have 27,485 awards?

That is the award-record count for 097 × NE. Combined with $4,220,069,029.27, the average is about $153,541. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 27,485 is not unique active-duty headcount, named installations, or jobs created. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Defense in Nebraska is the overlay. Nebraska federal spending and Department of Defense are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $4,220,069,029.27. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.