Department of Commerce federal obligations in North Carolina

A short Commerce tape on a large Carolina cell

Two filters meet here. One is the awarding agency: Department of Commerce, code 013. The other is geography: awards whose place of performance is North Carolina. The product is $2,416,799,637.48 and 395 award records. A Commerce award coded to Virginia is not in this total. A North Carolina award from another agency is not in this total.

The join is an accounting intersection, not a policy story. North Carolina did not win Commerce spending by appearing next to $2,416,799,637.48. Commerce did not choose the Research Triangle in any sense this extract can prove. Correlation of an agency code with a state code is not causation. Place-of-performance can follow a campus, a statistical contractor, or a port office.

GDP, university R&D surveys, and container counts are other series. They are not this award extract. A reader who treats $2,416,799,637.48 as a score of Carolina tech or tobacco-era industry has left the USAspending.gov obligation definition. The 395 figure counts award records, including modifications, not unique firms or labs.

Three hundred ninety-five awards under $2.42 billion

Dividing $2,416,799,637.48 by 395 awards yields an implied mean near $6,118,480. That is a fatter mean than many Commerce-in-state cells with a thousand-plus rows. A few large facilities, satellite-support, or statistical vehicles can pull the average up. This packet has no median and no bureau split among Census, NOAA, and NIST.

Three hundred ninety-five rows is a compact tape for $2.42 billion. Volume and dollars are different columns. Cite both. USAspending.gov is the source. SpendingVault does not recast the mean as a typical Research Triangle contract.

Later ingests can revise $2,416,799,637.48 and 395. This prose is a packet snapshot. The overlay is the live table. If those two disagree, use the overlay. Keep the obligation label so the cell is not read as cash already paid in North Carolina.

North Carolina statewide versus Commerce nationwide

North Carolina’s all-agency hub stacks every awarding agency with performance coded to the state. $2,416,799,637.48 is only Commerce. Commerce’s national hub includes every state. This tie is the overlap, nothing more.

Raleigh budget documents answer a different question. They are not the source of the 395 federal award records. If a chart mixes the state budget with this Commerce cell, the chart has left the USAspending.gov series.

Research Triangle campuses, ports, and statistical contractors can attract North Carolina tags without proving that every dollar of $2,416,799,637.48 was spent inside the state. A national IT or satellite vehicle coded to one Carolina address can dominate the 395-row cell. This packet does not reallocate subcontractors. Read the overlay as a coding view, not an economic-impact model of the Triangle.

Obligations, not checks cleared in the Triangle

An obligation records a legal commitment on an award. An outlay records cash leaving the Treasury. $2,416,799,637.48 is the first series. Multi-year statistical and facilities vehicles can remain open after the obligation posts. SpendingVault does not convert this cell into cash.

Cite the pair as agency 013 × North Carolina, $2,416,799,637.48, 395 awards, obligations only.

Overlay, state hub, and agency hub

The North Carolina × Commerce overlay holds the structured rows behind 395 awards and $2,416,799,637.48. The North Carolina state page and the Commerce agency page are the parents. The ties index lists other state–agency pairs on the same obligation basis.

Those views do not add a bureau mix or a unique-recipient count this packet omits. They also do not convert the cell into outlays.

How to cite Commerce in North Carolina

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Commerce (awarding agency 013) obligated $2,416,799,637.48 on 395 awards coded to North Carolina. Keep both sides of the join. Do not drop North Carolina and call the figure a national Commerce total. Do not drop Commerce and call it North Carolina’s entire federal book.

The implied mean near $6,118,480 remains a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical bureau action. Place-of-performance is a coding field, not a complete map of Triangle subcontractors.

Questions

How much Department of Commerce spending is in North Carolina?

USAspending.gov shows $2,416,799,637.48 in Commerce obligations coded to North Carolina across 395 awards. Awarding-agency 013 and North Carolina place of performance define the join. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Why is the average Commerce award in North Carolina so large?

The implied mean is about $6,118,480 from $2,416,799,637.48 divided by 395 awards. A short tape with a few large vehicles can raise the mean. Bureau splits and a median are not in this packet.

Is this North Carolina’s full federal spending?

No. $2,416,799,637.48 is only the Commerce cell. Other agencies with North Carolina place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Commerce nationwide sits on the agency 013 page.

Are Commerce obligations in North Carolina the same as outlays?

No. $2,416,799,637.48 is an obligation sum on 395 awards. Outlays are cash leaving the Treasury and can lag. SpendingVault does not convert this cell into cash.