Department of Commerce federal obligations in Alabama

A thin Commerce file on Alabama

Department of Commerce as awarding agency, Alabama as place-of-performance: 208 records summing to $1,794,803,751.82. A Department of Commerce award coded outside AL is out. An award in Alabama from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Alabama (AL) excludes Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. A Pascagoula-coded award is Mississippi even if the yard story sounds similar.

Two hundred eight awards against $1,794,803,751.82 is a thin Commerce book. The implied mean is large and is not a typical cooperative-agreement size. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 208 as 208 unique shipyards, exporters, or NOAA landings. The overlay Department of Commerce in Alabama is the both-keys table. Alabama federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Commerce is the agency book without an AL filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Huntsville, Mobile, and Birmingham share one AL stamp. NIST, NOAA, Census, and EDA can share 013 without a published bureau pie. Correlation is not causation: Alabama did not cause $1,794,803,751.82 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 013 × AL only.

Not a shipyard or Gulf landing census

$1,794,803,751.82 does not measure shipyards, exporters, or NOAA landings. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 013 and an AL place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 208 awards as a census of shipyards, exporters, or NOAA landings. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Alabama federal spending or Department of Commerce matched $1,794,803,751.82 and 208, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida Commerce joins are other pairs, not addends.

Alabama, not a Tennessee Valley rollup

Place of performance AL is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Alabama (AL) excludes Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. A Pascagoula-coded award is Mississippi even if the yard story sounds similar. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Huntsville, Mobile, and Birmingham share one AL stamp. NIST, NOAA, Census, and EDA can share 013 without a published bureau pie. This packet does not split $1,794,803,751.82 by city, county, or named facility. 208 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Few rows, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,794,803,751.82 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Alabama confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Alabama’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 208-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $1,794,803,751.82.

Citing Commerce in Alabama

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Commerce (agency 013) obligated $1,794,803,751.82 on 208 awards coded to Alabama. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as shipyards, exporters, or NOAA landings.

Prefer Department of Commerce in Alabama if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Alabama federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to AL. Department of Commerce is the 013 parent without the AL filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,794,803,751.82.

A usable footnote names Department of Commerce, Alabama, $1,794,803,751.82, and 208. The compact headline $1.79 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $8.63 million is $1,794,803,751.82 divided by 208. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Commerce obligated in Alabama?

USAspending.gov records $1,794,803,751.82 across 208 awards with awarding agency 013 and an Alabama tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of shipyards, exporters, or NOAA landings. Department of Commerce in Alabama is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,794,803,751.82.

Is $1,794,803,751.82 a measure of shipyards, exporters, or NOAA landings?

No. The packet publishes $1,794,803,751.82 and 208 awards for agency 013 inside AL 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 Commerce file have 208 awards?

That is the award-record count for 013 × AL. Combined with $1,794,803,751.82, the average is about $8.63 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 208 is not unique shipyards, exporters, or NOAA landings. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live Commerce–Alabama table?

Department of Commerce in Alabama is the overlay. Alabama federal spending and Department of Commerce are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $1,794,803,751.82. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays. Place of performance is AL.