Department of Commerce obligations in Maryland 8th District (MD-08)

Commerce × MD-08 is a bureau join, not a NIST-campus census

This page is a join: Department of Commerce (agency 013) as awarding agency, and Maryland 8th District (MD-08) as congressional district place of performance. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations to $1,846,524,559.76 on 934 awards. The join is awarding-agency 013 crossed with an MD-08 location field, not Maryland’s entire commerce budget and not a named NIST, NOAA, or Census campus roster. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which district received more, and not a claim that 934 awards equal 934 laboratories, ships, or unique contractors.

NSF research, NASA lines, or Commerce-coded awards in MD-06 sit outside this total unless they also carry agency 013 and MD-08. Mixing those books into $1,846,524,559.76 would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and federal employment is not causation. Headcount and campus-acreage tables are not in the packet. Place of performance as MD-08 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $1,846,524,559.76 in a district treasury. Silver Spring-versus-Gaithersburg folklore is not a geography split in this packet.

934 awards behind $1.85 billion

Mean obligation is about $1,977,007.02 if $1,846,524,559.76 were divided evenly across 934 lines. That ratio is not a published campus budget and not a typical NOAA task order. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of labs, vessels, or unique vendors. Nine hundred thirty-four awards is a mid-thick Commerce file; dollars still sit on tagged rows, not on a campus list.

Bureau contracts and assistance can both appear among the 934 lines. This page will not invent contractor or recipient names. Open Maryland 8th District for the stored district table. Do not convert 934 into a map of Maryland 8th District Commerce campuses. The $1,846,524,559.76 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on the overlay rather than inferring a campus census.

Maryland 8th District, not a suburban-DC science rollup

Maryland 8th District (MD-08) is one geography tag on USAspending awards, not a commuting zone and not a metro list. Awards tagged to MD-06, MD-04, or another Maryland district are out even if the bureau sounds related. Recipient address can differ from that district tag. The district parent in this extract is $61,236,689,187.98 across every awarding agency; $1,846,524,559.76 is the Department of Commerce slice — about 3.0% of that parent by arithmetic. Subtracting is tempting; this page still does not publish the leftover agency list.

A statewide Commerce figure on Maryland federal spending mixes every district. Do not rank MD-08 against neighboring districts as a winner or loser. Other Maryland district cells are other joins. Maryland federal spending is the statewide book without a district filter. Adding statewide Department of Commerce dollars to $1,846,524,559.76 would double count. Campaign-finance filings are a different public-record system; this join does not claim donations funded these obligations.

Agency 013 obligations are not measurement services already billed

Commerce awards often obligate as bureau contracts and assistance rows and draw as work proceeds. The $1,846,524,559.76 headline is the obligation sum, not a punch-list of calibrations completed and not a Treasury outlay total. A NIST or NOAA dashboard dated to a particular year is not automatically this join unless it uses agency 013, MD-08 geography, and the obligation metric.

Department of Commerce is the nationwide agency book without a MD-08 filter. This extract does not split NIST from NOAA, and it does not split Census from ITA. Those cuts would require award documentation beyond dollars, 934 awards, agency 013, and Maryland 8th District. This page will not invent a share. Unique recipients remain unpublished.

What the MD-08 Commerce table omits

The extract has no campus names, vessel names, or contractor names. Facts remain $1,846,524,559.76, 934 awards, agency 013, Department of Commerce, Maryland 8th District (MD-08), and district parent $61,236,689,187.98. Campus folklore belongs on another extract if it appears at all. Keep the obligation label. Later ingests can revise both the dollars and the 934-award count; prefer the live table when the overlay and this snapshot diverge.

Where the Commerce × MD-08 pair lives

Start with Maryland 8th District for the district rollup that contains this Department of Commerce cell. Department of Commerce is the nationwide agency listing. Maryland federal spending gives Maryland context without a MD-08 filter. All spending ties indexes other two-key joins on the same obligation metric. 934 awards totaling this cell remain an administrative file, not a bureau-campus roster. Keep both Department of Commerce and Maryland 8th District (MD-08) in every citation sentence. Do not recast $1,846,524,559.76 as cash already paid or as Maryland’s entire commerce appropriation. USAspending.gov remains the source; SpendingVault republishes the join.

Questions

How much Commerce spending is obligated in Maryland 8th District?

USAspending.gov shows $1,846,524,559.76 in Department of Commerce (agency 013) obligations with Maryland 8th District (MD-08) as place of performance, across 934 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district’s full $61,236,689,187.98 parent. Other agencies sit outside this join unless they also carry 013.

Do 934 awards mean 934 Commerce contractors in MD-08?

No. Award count is a row count of Department of Commerce actions tagged to MD-08. It is not a campus or vendor census. Mean obligation of about $1,977,007.02 is a quotient of $1,846,524,559.76 and 934, not a typical task order.

Does this Commerce cell include NSF research in MD-08?

No. This page is awarding agency 013 only. NSF lines are other joins. $1,846,524,559.76 is about 3.0% of the Maryland 8th District parent $61,236,689,187.98 by arithmetic — a small slice of a large district book.

Is the MD-08 Commerce total already paid as outlays?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $1,846,524,559.76 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Invoice draws and remaining balances are not published here.