Department of Defense in New Jersey

A million-plus Defense records on NJ

This relationship page exists because agency 097 and place-of-performance NJ coincide on 1,023,205 award records summing to $42,544,622,968.19. A high count with a mid-tens-of-billions dollar total produces a low mean of about $41,600. Many small actions can sit beside fewer large contracts inside the same sum.

The join does not name contract vehicles, installations, or vendors. Those labels are not in the facts. Ranking New Jersey against New York or Pennsylvania would require other packets.

Repeat the pair until it sticks: $42,544,622,968.19 on 1,023,205 awards, both keys required. Drop the state and the agency hub takes over. Drop the agency and the state hub takes over. This page is the remainder after both filters.

Code 097 is still one awarding agency

Department of Defense is the USAspending label for 097. Other codes are other pages. The agency hub without New Jersey will not equal $42,544,622,968.19. The New Jersey hub without 097 includes civilian awarding agencies. Overlay /states/nj/agencies/097/ is the both-keys table for the 1,023,205-award count.

If a citation of $42,544,622,968.19 does not mention both the awarding agency and the place-of-performance state, it is not citing this join. If a citation of 1,023,205 does not mention both keys, it is not this file’s count.

Questions

How much has DoD obligated in New Jersey?

USAspending records $42,544,622,968.19 in obligations for agency 097 with New Jersey place of performance, on 1,023,205 awards. That is an obligation join, not an outlay total. The pair is awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) and place-of-performance New Jersey. It is not Department of Defense nationwide and not New Jersey from every awarding agency.

Why are there more than a million awards?

1,023,205 is the award-record count for 097 × NJ. Combined with $42,544,622,968.19, the average is about $41,600. The count is not unique vendors. High-volume Defense files can accumulate many small records. 1,023,205 is the award-record count for this pair, not unique vendors.

Does this include New York Defense awards?

No. Place of performance is New Jersey only. New York and other states are outside $42,544,622,968.19 and outside the 1,023,205 awards. Only place-of-performance New Jersey plus awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) enter $42,544,622,968.19. Adjacent state codes are other filters, if they exist as ties at all.

Are these outlays?

No. The aggregate is obligations. Outlays can differ. The 1,023,205 figure is a record count, not a payment count. USAspending’s source note for this aggregate is that obligations are not outlays. Place of performance New Jersey is a geography tag, not a roster of residents, vendors, or named facilities.