Department of Justice in Virginia

Justice awards tagged to Virginia

The $16,148,629,321.93 total is the USAspending aggregate for Department of Justice (agency 015) where place of performance is Virginia. It is not a count of prosecutions, prisons, or FBI cases. Those activities may generate awards that land in the table, but the facts supply only dollars and an award count of 11,854. Inferring a caseload from that count would over-read the join.

Eleven thousand eight hundred fifty-four awards is a high row count relative to many other state–agency cells in this batch. High counts usually mean the mean dollar amount is pulled down unless a few enormous awards offset them. Here the mean is about $1.36 million. That still blends grants, contracts, and other instruments if all are present in the source aggregate.

Readers sometimes want this join to double as a map of federal law-enforcement presence. The 11,854-award count will not do that work. Presence, headcount, and caseload live in other systems. $16,148,629,321.93 is the obligation field for agency 015 and Virginia place of performance, refreshed when the aggregate is rebuilt, not when a case is filed.

Agency 015 as the awarding department

Department of Justice on the agency hub is nationwide. Virginia’s $16,148,629,321.93 is the VA slice of agency 015, not a stand-in for every U.S. Attorney’s office or component. Awards coded to other states stay outside this tie. The overlay /states/va/agencies/015/ is the filtered table that corresponds to these facts.

Code 015 is stable in USAspending’s toptier list for Justice. This page does not split components. If a reader needs Bureau-level detail, that split is not in the two numbers provided here.

Questions

How much Department of Justice money is obligated in Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $16,148,629,321.93 in agency 015 obligations with Virginia place of performance, across 11,854 awards. That is an obligation aggregate, not an outlay total and not a count of cases.

Why are there 11,854 DOJ awards in Virginia?

The facts supply the count, not the reason. 11,854 is the number of award records in the agency 015 and Virginia aggregate. It is not a count of investigations or unique vendors.

Does this include Justice Department work in Washington, DC?

Only if the award’s place-of-performance state is Virginia. DC-tagged awards are excluded from the $16,148,629,321.93 total. Geography follows USAspending’s state field, not the metro area.

Is the average award about $1.4 million?

The mean is about $1.36 million, from $16,148,629,321.93 divided by 11,854. That is not a median and not a typical grant size.