Department of Commerce federal obligations in New Mexico
Department of Commerce obligated $970,987,871.04 in New Mexico across 102 USAspending.gov awards. Awarding-agency 013 crossed with place-of-performance NM is the join. One hundred two awards against $970,987,871.04 is a thin Commerce book. The implied mean is large and is not a typical project size. The implied mean is about $9,519,488.93 — a packet quotient, not a typical Commerce instrument. USAspending.gov is the source. Amounts are obligations, not outlays.
Key figures
- Commerce in New Mexico: $970,987,871.04 across 102 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $9,519,488.93 per record — a packet quotient, not a typical project.
- Agency 013 × NM is not a measure of exporters, national laboratories, or NOAA landings.
- Cite obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.
- New Mexico federal spending and Department of Commerce are parents, not amounts to add into $970,987,871.04.
A thin Commerce file on New Mexico
Department of Commerce as awarding agency, New Mexico as place-of-performance: 102 records summing to $970,987,871.04. A Department of Commerce award coded outside NM is out. An award in New Mexico from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. New Mexico (NM) excludes Texas, Arizona, Colorado, and Oklahoma. An El Paso-coded award is Texas even if the mesilla story sounds similar.
One hundred two awards against $970,987,871.04 is a thin Commerce book. The implied mean is large and is not a typical project size. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 102 as 102 unique exporters, national laboratories, or NOAA landings. The overlay Department of Commerce in New Mexico is the both-keys table. New Mexico federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Commerce is the agency book without an NM filter. All spending ties lists other joins.
Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Las Cruces share one NM stamp. NIST, NOAA, Census, and EDA can share awarding-agency 013 without a published bureau pie. Correlation is not causation: New Mexico did not cause $970,987,871.04 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 013 × NM only.
Not a laboratory or exporter census
$970,987,871.04 does not measure exporters, national laboratories, or NOAA landings. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 013 and an NM place-of-performance tag.
Do not treat 102 awards as a census of exporters, national laboratories, or NOAA landings. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If New Mexico federal spending or Department of Commerce matched $970,987,871.04 and 102, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighbor-state Commerce joins are other pairs, not addends. Dividing $970,987,871.04 by 102 yields about $9,519,488.93 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical Commerce line and not a published median.
New Mexico, not a Four Corners Commerce rollup
Place of performance NM is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. New Mexico (NM) excludes Texas, Arizona, Colorado, and Oklahoma. An El Paso-coded award is Texas even if the mesilla story sounds similar. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.
Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Las Cruces share one NM stamp. This packet does not split $970,987,871.04 by city, county, or named facility. 102 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.
One hundred two rows, still obligations
Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $970,987,871.04 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in New Mexico confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.
New Mexico's own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 102-award 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 $970,987,871.04.
What this pair does not prove
A large Commerce total in New Mexico does not mean the agency caused New Mexico's fiscal mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Keep $970,987,871.04 labeled as agency 013 obligations with New Mexico place of performance. Neighbor Commerce cells among Texas, Arizona, Colorado, and Oklahoma are separate joins. This page does not rank New Mexico as a winner or loser.
Recipient names are unpublished in this packet. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to explain $970,987,871.04. Place-of-performance NM can differ from a vendor mailroom. An El Paso-coded award is Texas even if the mesilla story sounds similar. A later ingest can restate $970,987,871.04 and 102 without changing the join definition: awarding agency 013 crossed with New Mexico.
Citing Commerce in New Mexico
Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Commerce (agency 013) obligated $970,987,871.04 on 102 awards coded to New Mexico. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as exporters, national laboratories, or NOAA landings.
Prefer Department of Commerce in New Mexico if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. New Mexico federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to NM. Department of Commerce is the 013 parent without the NM filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $970,987,871.04.
A usable footnote names Department of Commerce, New Mexico, $970,987,871.04, and 102. The implied mean near $9,519,488.93 is $970,987,871.04 divided by 102. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset; they do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation.
Questions
- How much has the Department of Commerce obligated in New Mexico?
- USAspending.gov records $970,987,871.04 across 102 awards with awarding agency 013 and a New Mexico tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of exporters, national laboratories, or NOAA landings. Department of Commerce in New Mexico is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $970,987,871.04.
- Is $970,987,871.04 a measure of exporters?
- No. The packet publishes $970,987,871.04 and 102 awards for agency 013 inside NM coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays. The implied mean is about $9,519,488.93, a ratio of two packet facts.
- Is this a Albuquerque-only Commerce total?
- No. $970,987,871.04 and 102 awards are statewide New Mexico place of performance. Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Las Cruces share one NM stamp. This packet does not publish a city split. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.
- Where is the live Commerce–New Mexico table?
- Department of Commerce in New Mexico is the overlay. New Mexico federal spending and Department of Commerce are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $970,987,871.04. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.
USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.