Department of State in Virginia

The agency 019 and Virginia intersection

This tie page reports the cell where awarding agency 019, labeled Department of State, meets Virginia as place-of-performance state. The $18,923,084,814.11 figure is the sum of obligations on awards that carry both attributes in the USAspending aggregate. Remove either filter and the total changes: statewide Virginia spending includes every awarding agency, and the agency 019 profile includes every state.

Four thousand five hundred fifty-four awards is a larger row count than several other State Department geography slices on this site, while the dollars remain in the same order of magnitude as the District pair that uses a different agency code. That comparison is descriptive only. It does not rank Virginia as a better or worse location for federal work, and it does not imply that 4,554 distinct companies received funds.

Reading agency 019 without collapsing codes

USAspending’s awarding-agency dimension uses numeric codes. This join is keyed to 019. Other Department of State pages on SpendingVault use 072. The labels look similar; the codes, overlay paths, and dollar totals do not. Treating 019 and 072 as the same bucket would mix $18,923,084,814.11 in Virginia with unrelated District and New York slices.

The agency hub for 019 is the place to see that department’s awards without a Virginia constraint. This narrative only restates the 4,554-award, $18.92 billion Virginia cell. Nothing here fills in missing fiscal years, object classes, or overseas posts; those fields are not in the packet facts.

Questions

How much State Department funding is obligated in Virginia?

USAspending records $18,923,084,814.11 in obligations for awarding agency 019 (Department of State) with Virginia place of performance, covering 4,554 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for this pair, not an outlay figure and not the department’s national total.

Why is State Department spending showing up in Virginia instead of DC?

The geography field is place of performance, not headquarters. Awards tagged VA enter this $18,923,084,814.11 total; awards tagged DC or another state do not. The join does not explain the operational reason a given award lists Virginia.

Is agency 019 the same as agency 072?

No. This page filters awarding agency 019. Other State Department ties use code 072, different overlay URLs, and different dollar and award counts. The shared English name does not merge the codes.

What does the average award amount tell me?

Dividing $18,923,084,814.11 by 4,554 awards produces about $4.16 million per award. That is a mean of the aggregate, not a median contract value, and it mixes whatever award types sit in the USAspending table for this pair.