Department of Commerce federal obligations in Washington

Agency 013 meets Washington place of performance

This tie keeps USAspending rows where the awarding agency is the Department of Commerce and the place of performance is Washington. The dollar book is $2,982,755,150.54. The award count is 1,130. Those two facts describe a coding intersection. They do not prove that Commerce chose Washington because of exports, fisheries, or tech employment.

Commerce bureaus include statistical, standards, and ocean agencies whose contracts and grants can land on labs, ports, and contractors. This packet does not split the 1,130 rows by bureau. A NOAA shipyard action and a Census IT task order can share the same statewide cell. Correlation is not causation.

GDP, container throughput, and fisheries landings are other series. They are not this award extract. A reader who treats $2,982,755,150.54 as a score of Pacific trade has left the USAspending.gov obligation definition. The 1,130 figure is a record count, including modifications present in the extract, not a count of exporters or weather stations.

Fewer than twelve hundred awards on $2.98 billion

One thousand one hundred thirty awards under $2,982,755,150.54 imply a mean near $2,639,606 per award. That quotient is blended. A few large satellite, vessel, or facilities actions can pull the average up while many smaller grants sit below it. The packet has no median and no bureau shares.

Compared with high-volume guarantee files, 1,130 rows is a compact tape for nearly $3 billion. Volume and dollars are different columns. Cite both. USAspending.gov is the source; SpendingVault does not recast the mean as a typical NOAA contract.

Washington’s ports, federal labs, and contractor offices can attract place-of-performance tags without proving that every dollar of $2,982,755,150.54 was spent inside the state. A national satellite or IT vehicle coded to one Washington address can dominate the 1,130-row cell. This packet does not reallocate subcontractors. Read the overlay as a coding view, not an economic-impact model.

Washington’s Commerce cell is not the state total

Washington’s state hub stacks every awarding agency with performance coded to the state. Commerce is one agency in that stack. $2,982,755,150.54 is not Washington’s all-agency obligation total. The nationwide Commerce hub (agency 013) includes every state, so it is also not this cell.

Place-of-performance for a national IT or satellite vehicle can concentrate in one state even when work is scattered. This packet does not reallocate suppliers. Read the overlay as a coding view of 1,130 awards, not a map of Washington exporters.

If you need Commerce without a state filter, open the agency 013 hub. If you need Washington without an agency filter, open the state hub. This tie exists only because those two filters meet. $2,982,755,150.54 is the overlap, and 1,130 is the overlapping award count. Neither parent page is a substitute for the pair.

Commitments versus Treasury cash

The $2,982,755,150.54 figure is an obligation sum. Outlays can lag, especially on multi-year science and satellite vehicles. SpendingVault does not publish a Commerce-in-Washington outlay total in this packet. Mixing GDP, trade, or port-throughput statistics with this award file leaves the USAspending series.

Cite the join as agency 013 × Washington, $2,982,755,150.54, 1,130 awards, obligations only.

Where the structured rows live

The Washington × Commerce overlay is the table view of the join. Recipient and related slices on that hub still sum toward $2,982,755,150.54 on 1,130 awards. The Washington state page and the Commerce agency page are the parent rollups. The ties index lists other state–agency pairs on the same obligation basis.

None of those links convert the cell into outlays or into bureau-level NOAA or Census shares this packet omits.

How to cite Commerce in Washington

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Commerce (awarding agency 013) obligated $2,982,755,150.54 on 1,130 awards coded to Washington. Keep the obligation label. Keep both sides of the join. Do not report the cell as Washington’s full federal total or as Commerce’s national book.

Later bulk files can revise both dollars and the 1,130-award count. This page is a packet snapshot. The overlay is the live table. The implied mean near $2,639,606 is a quotient of the two packet facts, not a typical bureau contract.

Questions

How much Department of Commerce spending is in Washington?

USAspending.gov shows $2,982,755,150.54 in Commerce obligations coded to Washington across 1,130 awards. The join uses awarding-agency 013 and Washington place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Is $2.98 billion Washington’s full federal spending?

No. $2,982,755,150.54 is only the Department of Commerce cell. Other agencies with Washington place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Commerce nationwide sits on the agency 013 page, which is not limited to Washington.

What does 1,130 Commerce awards in Washington include?

The extract counts 1,130 award records tagged to agency 013 and Washington. Bureau splits (Census, NOAA, NIST, and others) are not in this packet. The implied mean is about $2,639,606 per award from the two packet facts.

Do Commerce obligations equal cash paid in Washington?

No. $2,982,755,150.54 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Multi-year vehicles can remain open after the obligation posts.