Department of Commerce federal obligations in Kentucky

What the Commerce-Kentucky join is

Awarding agency 013 and place-of-performance state KY meet here. $1,201,417,552.05 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Commerce's nationwide budget, not Kentucky's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. River-port, manufacturing, and statewide economic-development folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a census of Kentucky exporters.

81 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — a short award list beside a billion-dollar obligation total. A few large awards can dominate a dollar total even when the row count looks tiny. The join does not rank Kentucky against other states and does not name ports or plants inside the extract.

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

81 Commerce actions under one Kentucky filter

Dividing $1,201,417,552.05 by 81 yields about $14,832,315.46 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical economic-development grant. Repeat awards and modifications still add rows; the listed count is not a unique-recipient census. Plant names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars.

River-port, manufacturing, and statewide economic-development folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative's extra columns.

Agency 013 without a Kentucky overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Department of Commerce page aggregates 013 without requiring KY geography. The Kentucky federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Kentucky place of performance. Only Department of Commerce in Kentucky applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 81 awards and $1,201,417,552.05.

Place of performance in Kentucky is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list KY while later work occurs in Ohio or Indiana. Commerce awards coded to those states do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in Louisville. This packet does not split Louisville from Lexington or Paducah.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $1,201,417,552.05 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in Kentucky over-reads the field.

Award count 81 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Kentucky-Commerce overlay. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

What this pair does not prove

A large Commerce total in Kentucky does not mean the agency caused Kentucky's industrial mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between manufacturing geography and Commerce awards is expected; it is not a finding about trade policy or waste.

Keep $1,201,417,552.05 labeled as agency 013 obligations with Kentucky place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. An agency name that appears near a donor occupation is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline into USAspending.

How to cite the Kentucky-Commerce pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 013 (Department of Commerce), Kentucky place of performance, $1,201,417,552.05 in obligations, and 81 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $1,201,417,552.05 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $14,832,315.46 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical economic-development grant.

Department of Commerce in Kentucky, Kentucky federal spending, Department of Commerce, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $1,201,417,552.05 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Louisville-versus-Lexington folklore is not a metro split in this packet. A short award list is still a record count, including modifications. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has the Commerce Department obligated in Kentucky?

USAspending.gov records $1,201,417,552.05 in obligations for awarding agency 013 with Kentucky place of performance, covering 81 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Commerce's nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Why are there so few Commerce awards in Kentucky relative to the dollars?

The extract lists 81 award actions totaling $1,201,417,552.05. Average obligation per award is about $14,832,315.46, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical economic-development grant. Unique recipients are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is this a Louisville-only Commerce total?

No. $1,201,417,552.05 and 81 awards are statewide Kentucky place of performance. This packet does not split Louisville from Lexington or Paducah. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Commerce-Kentucky table?

Department of Commerce in Kentucky is the overlay. Kentucky 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.