Department of Defense in Alabama 5th District (AL-05)

How Department of Defense and Alabama 5th District (AL-05) meet

Awarding agency 097 and congressional district AL-05 meet here. $72,122,241,975.41 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Defense's nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Alabama 5th District (AL-05) ($98,271,183,994.60 is that district parent in this packet), and not an outlay register. 6,097 awards against $72,122,241,975.41 is a thick action file. Repeat awards and modifications add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Implied mean about $11.83 million is not a typical invoice.

Dividing $72,122,241,975.41 by 6,097 yields about $11.83 million per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. Alabama 5th District (AL-05) crossed with awarding agency 097 is a Defense obligation cell. Missile, aviation, and installation names that appear in news are not packet facts. Do not attach them to this total. Open Alabama 5th District for the district parent, Department of Defense for the agency parent, Alabama federal spending for the state mix, and All spending ties for sibling joins. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $72,122,241,975.41.

Awarding agency 097 as the Department of Defense side

USAspending labels awarding agency 097 as Department of Defense. That code produced $72,122,241,975.41 when crossed with Alabama 5th District (AL-05) place of performance. The agency-wide 097 hub does not require AL-05 geography. The district hub does not require Department of Defense. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 6,097 awards.

Named facilities, missions, and vendors are not packet facts. 6,097 awards is an action count. A second Department of Defense slice on another district uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Alabama 5th District (AL-05)'s 097 cell as a synonym for every Department of Defense account.

Alabama 5th District (AL-05) as place of performance

Alabama 5th District (AL-05) on this join is a USAspending congressional-district geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to Alabama 5th District residents. Awards can list AL-05 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged a neighboring district belong on those ties even when the office sits nearby.

Alabama 5th District shows how agency 097 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same geography. $72,122,241,975.41 is one column in that table, not the table. This packet does not split Alabama 5th District (AL-05) by county or city.

Obligations, not outlays

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $72,122,241,975.41 is that kind of sum for Department of Defense inside Alabama 5th District (AL-05) coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register.

Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency × district rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $72,122,241,975.41 as given.

What the Department of Defense–AL-05 join refuses to say

This page does not rank districts as winners, name laboratories or primes, or convert obligations into jobs. Agency plus district is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. A large AL-05 cell is a description of coded awards, not a management grade.

Do not claim campaign donations funded these awards. FEC.gov and USAspending.gov are different datasets. A named missile-or-aviation prime list, a base census, or alabama statewide defense remains out of scope.

How to cite Department of Defense in Alabama 5th District (AL-05)

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Defense (agency 097) obligated $72,122,241,975.41 on 6,097 awards coded to Alabama 5th District (AL-05). Name both sides. Keep the obligation word. If the live overlay moved, quote it over this snapshot. About 73.4% of the packet's $98,271,183,994.60 district parent sits in this cell by arithmetic.

Alabama 5th District holds the district parent. Department of Defense holds the agency parent. Alabama federal spending holds the state mix. All spending ties lists sibling pairs. Those hubs are not addends to $72,122,241,975.41.

Questions

How much Department of Defense spending is coded to Alabama 5th District (AL-05)?

USAspending.gov lists $72,122,241,975.41 in Department of Defense obligations across 6,097 Alabama 5th District (AL-05)-coded awards (agency 097). That cell is 73.4% of the district's $98,271,183,994.60 all-agency total. It is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.

Is $72,122,241,975.41 all federal spending in AL-05?

No. $98,271,183,994.60 is Alabama 5th District (AL-05)'s all-agency obligation total in this packet. Department of Defense is 73.4% of that parent. Other awarding agencies remain on the district hub. Do not add the district parent into this Department of Defense cell.

Do 6,097 awards mean 6,097 unique contractors in AL-05?

No. 6,097 is an award-record count for Department of Defense in Alabama 5th District (AL-05), not unique vendors. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. This packet names no contractors or award recipients. Implied mean about $11.83 million is two facts divided.

Did FEC donations fund this Department of Defense total in AL-05?

No. $72,122,241,975.41 is a USAspending.gov obligation aggregate. FEC contribution tables are a different dataset and do not fund these awards. Outlays are unpublished. Cite Department of Defense and Alabama 5th District (AL-05) together as a place-of-performance join.