Department of Commerce obligations in Virginia 4th District (VA-04)

Commerce × VA-04 is a 32-row join, not a Hampton Roads bureau census

This page is a join: Department of Commerce (agency 013) as awarding agency, and Virginia 4th District (VA-04) as congressional district place of performance. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations to $1,515,299,369.88 on 32 awards. The join is awarding-agency 013 crossed with a VA-04 location field, not Virginia’s entire commerce budget and not a named NOAA, Census, or EDA roster. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which district received more, and not a claim that 32 awards equal 32 laboratories, ports, or unique contractors.

NSF research, DOT port grants, or Commerce-coded awards in VA-03 sit outside this total unless they also carry agency 013 and VA-04. Mixing those books into $1,515,299,369.88 would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and port tonnage is not causation. Tonnage and campus tables are not in the packet. Place of performance as VA-04 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $1,515,299,369.88 in a district treasury. Richmond-versus-Petersburg folklore is not a geography split in this packet.

32 awards behind $1.52 billion

Mean obligation is about $47,353,105.31 if $1,515,299,369.88 were divided evenly across 32 lines. That ratio is not a published typical EDA grant and not a NOAA ship cost. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of labs, ports, or unique vendors. Thirty-two awards against a $1.52 billion cell is a thin, high-mean Commerce file. One restatement can move the mean quickly.

A handful of large assistance or contract vehicles can dominate a 32-row file. This page will not invent contractor or recipient names. Open Virginia 4th District for the stored district table. Do not convert 32 into a map of Virginia 4th District Commerce sites. The $1,515,299,369.88 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on the overlay rather than inferring a bureau-campus census.

Virginia 4th District, not a Richmond-to-port science rollup

Virginia 4th District (VA-04) is one geography tag on USAspending awards, not a commuting zone and not a metro list. Awards tagged to VA-03, VA-07, or another Virginia district are out even if the river name sounds related. Recipient address can differ from that district tag. The district parent in this extract is $13,111,280,853.32 across every awarding agency; $1,515,299,369.88 is the Department of Commerce slice — about 11.6% of that parent by arithmetic. Subtracting is tempting; this page still does not publish the leftover agency list.

A statewide Commerce figure on Virginia federal spending mixes every district. Do not rank VA-04 against neighboring districts as a winner or loser. Other Virginia district cells are other joins. Virginia federal spending is the statewide book without a district filter. Adding statewide Department of Commerce dollars to $1,515,299,369.88 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 census enumerations already billed

Commerce awards often obligate as bureau contracts and assistance rows and draw as work proceeds. The $1,515,299,369.88 headline is the obligation sum, not a punch-list of surveys completed and not a Treasury outlay total. A NOAA or EDA dashboard dated to a particular year is not automatically this join unless it uses agency 013, VA-04 geography, and the obligation metric.

Department of Commerce is the nationwide agency book without a VA-04 filter. This extract does not split NOAA from EDA, and it does not split Census from ITA. Those cuts would require award documentation beyond dollars, 32 awards, agency 013, and Virginia 4th District. This page will not invent a share. Unique recipients remain unpublished.

What the VA-04 Commerce table omits

The extract has no campus names, vessel names, or contractor names. Facts remain $1,515,299,369.88, 32 awards, agency 013, Department of Commerce, Virginia 4th District (VA-04), and district parent $13,111,280,853.32. Campus folklore belongs on another extract if it appears at all. Keep the obligation label. Later ingests can revise both the dollars and the 32-award count; prefer the live table when the overlay and this snapshot diverge.

Where the Commerce × VA-04 pair lives

Start with Virginia 4th District for the district rollup that contains this Department of Commerce cell. Department of Commerce is the nationwide agency listing. Virginia federal spending gives Virginia context without a VA-04 filter. All spending ties indexes other two-key joins on the same obligation metric. Thirty-two awards totaling this cell remain a thin administrative file, not a port roster. Keep both Department of Commerce and Virginia 4th District (VA-04) in every citation sentence. Do not recast $1,515,299,369.88 as cash already paid or as Virginia’s entire commerce appropriation. USAspending.gov remains the source; SpendingVault republishes the join.

Questions

How much Commerce spending is obligated in Virginia 4th District?

USAspending.gov shows $1,515,299,369.88 in Department of Commerce (agency 013) obligations with Virginia 4th District (VA-04) as place of performance, across 32 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district’s full $13,111,280,853.32 parent. Other agencies sit outside this join unless they also carry 013.

Do 32 awards mean 32 Commerce contractors in VA-04?

No. Award count is a row count of Department of Commerce actions tagged to VA-04. It is not a campus or vendor census. Mean obligation of about $47,353,105.31 is a quotient of $1,515,299,369.88 and 32, not a typical grant.

Does this Commerce cell include the VA-03 NASA join?

No. NASA is awarding agency 080, a different pair. $1,515,299,369.88 is about 11.6% of the Virginia 4th District parent $13,111,280,853.32 by arithmetic and does not include NASA rows. Cite USAspending.gov as the source.

Is the VA-04 Commerce total already paid as outlays?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $1,515,299,369.88 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Invoice draws and remaining balances are not published here.