Department of Commerce federal obligations in Massachusetts

Agency 013 overlapping Massachusetts

Department of Commerce as awarding agency, Massachusetts as place-of-performance: 758 records summing to $1,012,271,635.12. A Department of Commerce award coded outside MA is out. An award in Massachusetts from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Massachusetts (MA) excludes New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York. A Boston-coded award with a New Hampshire place-of-performance tag is a different cell.

758 awards against $1,012,271,635.12 is a 758-award Commerce file, denser than Tennessee’s Commerce join in this slice. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 758 as 758 unique named labs, NOAA vessel lists, or census-office headcount. Department of Commerce in Massachusetts is the both-keys table. Massachusetts federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Commerce is the agency book without an MA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

NIST, NOAA, and Census are not split here. Unique laboratories are unpublished. Do not invent them. Correlation is not causation: Massachusetts did not cause $1,012,271,635.12 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 013 × MA only.

A Commerce cell is not a lab roster

$1,012,271,635.12 does not measure named labs, NOAA vessel lists, or census-office headcount. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 013 and an MA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 758 awards as a census of named labs, NOAA vessel lists, or census-office headcount. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Massachusetts federal spending or Department of Commerce matched $1,012,271,635.12 and 758, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state Commerce joins are other pairs, not addends.

Massachusetts, not a Route 128-only map

Place of performance MA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Massachusetts (MA) excludes New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York. A Boston-coded award with a New Hampshire place-of-performance tag is a different cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This packet does not split $1,012,271,635.12 by city, county, or named facility. 758 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Campaign-finance filings do not fund these USAspending obligations.

Seven hundred fifty-eight obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,012,271,635.12 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Massachusetts confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Massachusetts’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 758 awards 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 $1,012,271,635.12. Sharing a geography with Department of Commerce does not mean FEC donations funded these awards.

Citing Commerce in Massachusetts

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Commerce (agency 013) obligated $1,012,271,635.12 on 758 awards coded to Massachusetts. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as named labs, NOAA vessel lists, or census-office headcount.

Prefer Department of Commerce in Massachusetts if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Massachusetts federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to MA. Department of Commerce is the 013 parent without the MA filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,012,271,635.12.

A usable footnote names Department of Commerce, Massachusetts, $1,012,271,635.12, and 758. The compact headline $1.01B is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1,335,450.71 is $1,012,271,635.12 divided by 758. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

A 758-award Commerce file still names no labs

Massachusetts’s Commerce overlay is 758 awards totaling $1,012,271,635.12. Route 128 and ocean-science folklore are unpublished. New Hampshire USDA in this slice is a different agency and a different state. Do not invent NIST campuses or NOAA vessels.

Questions

How much has Department of Commerce obligated in Massachusetts?

USAspending.gov records $1,012,271,635.12 across 758 awards with awarding agency 013 and a Massachusetts tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Massachusetts’s full federal book. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Do 758 Commerce awards mean 758 Massachusetts labs?

No. $1,012,271,635.12 is an obligation sum on awarding-agency 013 × MA. It does not measure named labs, NOAA vessel lists, or census-office headcount. Those series are not fields on this aggregate. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Why does this Commerce file have 758 awards?

758 is an award-record count, including possible continuations and modifications. Dividing $1,012,271,635.12 by 758 yields about $1,335,450.71 as a mean, not a typical project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Where is the live table for Department of Commerce in Massachusetts?

Department of Commerce in Massachusetts is the overlay for both keys. Massachusetts federal spending is the all-agency Massachusetts hub. Department of Commerce is the agency parent. All spending ties indexes other spending ties. Prefer the overlay when both filters must stay on.