Department of Commerce obligations in Connecticut

What the Commerce × Connecticut join publishes

$310,871,929.12 attaches only to awards that carry both Department of Commerce (agency 013) and Connecticut geography. Remove either filter and the total is a different number. Census, weather, standards, and development folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. The join does not rank Connecticut against other states.

223 is a record count on the Commerce–Connecticut overlay, not a headcount of unique bureaus or recipients. 223 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — a mid-size award list beside a large obligation total. This narrative does not invent contractor names.

Open Department of Commerce in Connecticut for the filtered table, Connecticut federal spending for the next hub, Department of Commerce for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

Average versus typical NOAA, census, or economic-development award

The mean obligation of about $1,394,044.53 is arithmetic only. A mid-size award list can hide one large action among smaller modifications. Readers who need instrument type should use the overlay table, not this narrative. No contractor is named here because none appears in the packet facts.

If a later ingest restates $310,871,929.12, the join definition stays the same: agency 013 plus Connecticut place of performance. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved.

Connecticut is a geography tag, not a metro split

Drop the Connecticut geography tag and agency 013 still has a national total on Department of Commerce. Drop the agency tag and Connecticut still has a multi-agency total on Connecticut federal spending. Neither hub equals $310,871,929.12 on its own.

Hartford, New Haven, and Stamford are reader landmarks, not packet subtotals. The geography key is statewide Connecticut. Headquarters folklore about Hartford does not move $310,871,929.12.

Legal commitment, not cash paid

USAspending.gov distinguishes obligations from outlays. The source note on this packet is explicit: the $310,871,929.12 figure is an obligation aggregate, not cash paid. No fiscal year is published in the facts, so none is invented here.

Keep the obligation word in every reuse of $310,871,929.12. Connecticut federal spending and Department of Commerce use the same unit on their own filters. Mixing units across hubs produces a false statewide cash story.

FEC filings are a different dataset

Census, weather, standards, and development folklore plus shoreline, insurance-corridor, and river-city folklore can look like a story. The published facts are only $310,871,929.12, 223 awards, agency 013, and Connecticut. Anything else is outside the extract.

Do not claim that donations paid for $310,871,929.12 in Connecticut. The source is USAspending.gov award aggregates. FEC tables are out of scope for this join.

Repeating $310,871,929.12 with both filters named

If you need a one-line caption, use: Commerce agency 013 × Connecticut = $310,871,929.12 across 223 awards (obligations, USAspending.gov). That caption already names both join sides and the unit.

All spending ties is an index of joins, not a hidden total that already includes $310,871,929.12. Department of Commerce in Connecticut remains the place to verify the live rows. Place-of-performance Connecticut is statewide; it does not split Hartford, New Haven, and Stamford. Neighbor-coded activity in New York, Massachusetts, or Rhode Island stays out even if mail is handled in Hartford. Correlation is not causation. Census, weather, standards, and development folklore can be a legitimate research question on another page. Here it is labeled folklore because the packet has no NAICS, CFDA, or program column. Shoreline, insurance-corridor, and river-city folklore is the same kind of reader path: useful for search, unused as math. Agency 013 on a different state's overlay is a sibling join, not a remainder that must add to a national Commerce budget on this page. Connecticut's $310,871,929.12 cell stands alone. Do not subtract it from Department of Commerce and call the difference 'Connecticut versus everywhere else' without a published national total in this packet — there is none. Department of Commerce is the awarding-agency label stored on the Connecticut overlay; the numeric key is 013. Readers who only remember the short name Commerce still need both the state tag and the agency tag before quoting $310,871,929.12. The 223 figure is not a count of unique bureaus or recipients and is not a count of distinct Commerce programs. Modifications can add rows without adding new vendors. That is another reason the mean of about $1,394,044.53 is not a typical NOAA, census, or economic-development award. Stamford is a landmark, not a packet metro total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. This file copies overlayTarget /states/ct/agencies/013/ and canonicalPath /ties/department-of-commerce-in-connecticut/ from the packet. It does not add a fiscal year, a contractor, or an FEC dollar. If the live overlay later disagrees with $310,871,929.12 or 223, trust the table and treat this prose as dated to the extract. Until then, the reusable facts are $310,871,929.12, 223 awards, agency 013, Department of Commerce, Connecticut (CT), and the obligation unit.

Questions

What is the Commerce obligation total for Connecticut?

USAspending.gov records $310,871,929.12 in obligations for awarding agency 013 (Department of Commerce) with Connecticut place of performance, covering 223 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Commerce's nationwide budget. The pair is a join, not a ranking.

Are unique Commerce recipients listed for Connecticut?

The extract lists 223 award actions totaling $310,871,929.12. Average obligation per award is about $1,394,044.53, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical NOAA, census, or economic-development award. Unique bureaus or recipients are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Are New York Commerce awards in this Connecticut cell?

No. $310,871,929.12 and 223 awards are statewide Connecticut place of performance. This packet does not split Hartford, New Haven, and Stamford. Awards coded to New York, Massachusetts, or Rhode Island are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Hartford. The geography key remains CT.

Which page filters Commerce agency 013 to Connecticut?

Department of Commerce in Connecticut is the overlay. Connecticut federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Commerce shows agency 013 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.