Department of Defense in New York

A quarter-million Defense awards on one state code

The relationship is agency 097 (Department of Defense) joined to place-of-performance NY. $60,913,848,761.29 is the obligation sum. 251,149 is the award count. Few civilian agency–state joins in this inventory carry that many rows. The count still does not identify contract vehicles, bases, or vendors; those names are not in the facts.

About $243,000 per award is the mean. Means on high-count files are pulled by numerous smaller actions. A few large contracts can still sit inside the same $60,913,848,761.29. The join does not publish the distribution.

A useful check on $60,913,848,761.29 is to ask what 251,149 records implies. A large sum on few rows concentrates. A large sum on many rows dilutes the mean. That check is still not a ranking of states. It is a reading of this file’s shape.

Agency 097 beside the New York hub

Department of Defense is the USAspending label for code 097. Other codes are other pages. The agency hub without NY will not equal $60,913,848,761.29. The New York state hub without 097 will not equal 251,149 Defense awards. Overlay /states/ny/agencies/097/ is the both-keys table.

New York’s statewide mix includes HHS, SSA, and other awarding agencies. Those dollars are adjacent in the state file, not subsets of this Defense total.

If a citation of $60,913,848,761.29 does not mention both the awarding agency and the place-of-performance state, it is not citing this join. If a citation of 251,149 does not mention both keys, it is not this file’s count.

Questions

How much has DoD obligated in New York?

USAspending records $60,913,848,761.29 in obligations for agency 097 (Department of Defense) with New York place of performance, on 251,149 awards. That is an obligation total for the pair. The pair is awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) and place-of-performance New York.

Why are there 251,149 awards?

That is the award-record count in the aggregate for 097 × NY. Combined with $60,913,848,761.29, the average is about $243,000. High counts are common in some Defense slices; the count is not a unique-vendor census. 251,149 is the award-record count for this pair, not unique vendors.

Does this include New Jersey Defense awards?

No. Place of performance is New York only. New Jersey and other states have separate ties. They are outside $60,913,848,761.29 and outside the 251,149 awards. Only place-of-performance New York plus awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) enter $60,913,848,761.29. Adjacent state codes are other filters, if they exist as ties at all.

Are these outlays?

No. The source aggregate is obligations. Outlays can differ. The $60,913,848,761.29 figure should not be described as cash spent. USAspending’s source note for this aggregate is that obligations are not outlays. Place of performance New York is a geography tag, not a roster of residents, vendors, or named facilities.