Department of State in Virginia

A thin State Department file on Virginia

Department of State as awarding agency, Virginia as place-of-performance: 221 records summing to $2,029,538,367.97. A Department of State award coded outside VA is out. An award in Virginia from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Virginia (VA) excludes Maryland, District of Columbia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina. A District-coded award is DC even if a Northern Virginia contractor later invoices it. Diplomatic security, consular, and other State bureaus are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 072.

Two hundred twenty-one awards against $2,029,538,367.97 is a thin, high-mean file. A handful of diplomatic or support vehicles can dominate the dollar total. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 221 as 221 unique embassies, unique contractors, or passport volumes. The overlay Department of State in Virginia is the both-keys table. Virginia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of State is the agency book without a VA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Arlington and Foggy Bottom folklore are unpublished. Assigning $2,029,538,367.97 to a named embassy support shop is a new extract. Correlation is not causation: Virginia did not “cause” $2,029,538,367.97 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 072 × VA only.

Not an embassy roster or passport census

$2,029,538,367.97 does not measure embassies, unique contractors, or passport volumes. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 072 and a VA place-of-performance tag. Diplomatic security, consular, and other State bureaus are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 072.

Do not treat 221 awards as a census of embassies, unique contractors, or passport volumes. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Virginia federal spending or Department of State matched $2,029,538,367.97 and 221, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Maryland, District of Columbia, and Maryland State joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of State obligated in Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $2,029,538,367.97 across 221 awards with awarding agency 072 and a Virginia tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of embassies, unique contractors, or passport volumes. Department of State in Virginia is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,029,538,367.97.

Is $2,029,538,367.97 a measure of embassies, unique contractors, or passport volumes?

No. The packet publishes $2,029,538,367.97 and 221 awards for agency 072 inside VA 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 State file have 221 awards?

That is the award-record count for 072 × VA. Combined with $2,029,538,367.97, the average is about $9.18 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 221 is not unique embassies, unique contractors, or passport volumes. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live State–Virginia table?

Department of State in Virginia is the overlay. Virginia federal spending and Department of State are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $2,029,538,367.97. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.