Department of Commerce federal obligations in New Jersey

What the Commerce–New Jersey join is

Awarding agency 013 and place-of-performance state NJ meet here. $750,468,682.26 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Commerce's nationwide budget, not New Jersey's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Weather, fisheries, census, and port-economy folklore and port, pharma-corridor, and Turnpike folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a census of ports or weather stations.

290 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — a mid-size award list beside a large obligation total. A mid-size row list can mix large instruments with smaller service awards. The join does not rank New Jersey against other states and does not name labs or statistical contractors inside the extract.

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

290 Commerce actions under one New Jersey filter

Dividing $750,468,682.26 by 290 yields about $2,587,823.04 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical NOAA, census, or economic-development award. A second Commerce slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat New Jersey's 013 total as a synonym for every Department of Commerce bureau account.

Weather, fisheries, census, and port-economy 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 New Jersey overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Department of Commerce page aggregates 013 without requiring NJ geography. The New Jersey federal spending page aggregates all agencies with New Jersey place of performance. Only Department of Commerce in New Jersey applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 290 awards and $750,468,682.26.

Place of performance in New Jersey is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list NJ while later survey or lab work occurs in New York or Pennsylvania. Commerce awards coded to those places do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in Newark. This packet does not split Newark from Trenton or Camden.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $750,468,682.26 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 New Jersey over-reads the field.

Award count 290 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the New Jersey–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 New Jersey does not mean the agency caused New Jersey's fiscal mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between port, pharma-corridor, and Turnpike folklore and Commerce awards is expected; it is not a finding about waste or program quality.

Keep $750,468,682.26 labeled as agency 013 obligations with New Jersey 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 New Jersey–Commerce pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 013 (Department of Commerce), New Jersey place of performance, $750,468,682.26 in obligations, and 290 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $750,468,682.26 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $2,587,823.04 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical NOAA, census, or economic-development award.

Department of Commerce in New Jersey, New Jersey federal spending, Department of Commerce, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $750,468,682.26 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Newark-versus-Trenton folklore is not a metro split in this packet. Labs or statistical contractors names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has Department of Commerce obligated in New Jersey?

USAspending.gov records $750,468,682.26 in obligations for awarding agency 013 (Department of Commerce) with New Jersey place of performance, covering 290 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Commerce's nationwide budget.

Does this total include every New Jersey NOAA, census, or economic-development award?

The extract lists 290 award actions totaling $750,468,682.26. Average obligation per award is about $2,587,823.04, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical NOAA, census, or economic-development award. Unique labs or statistical contractors are not published here.

Is this a Newark-only Commerce total?

No. $750,468,682.26 and 290 awards are statewide New Jersey place of performance. This packet does not split Newark from Trenton or Camden. Awards coded to New York or Pennsylvania are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Newark.

Where is the live Commerce–New Jersey table?

Department of Commerce in New Jersey is the overlay. New Jersey 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.