Department of Defense federal obligations in Arkansas (agency 097)

What the Defense–Arkansas join is

Awarding agency 097 and place-of-performance state AR meet here. $4,954,201,250 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Defense’s nationwide budget, not Arkansas’s entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Little Rock Air Force Base folklore and statewide depot stories may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a base census.

64,491 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — a very long award list beside a multi-billion obligation total. A long row list can mix small supply actions with larger instruments. The join does not rank Arkansas against other states and does not name installations inside the extract.

Open Department of Defense in Arkansas for the filtered table, Arkansas federal spending for the next hub, Department of Defense for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

A long Defense award list under one Arkansas filter

Dividing $4,954,201,250 by 64,491 yields about $76,820 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical air-base contract. Repeat awards and modifications still add rows; the listed count is not a unique-recipient census. Base names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars.

Little rock air force base folklore and statewide depot stories is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative’s extra columns.

Agency 097 without an Arkansas overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Department of Defense page aggregates 097 without requiring AR geography. The Arkansas federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Arkansas place of performance. Only Department of Defense in Arkansas applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 64,491 awards and $4,954,201,250.

Place of performance in Arkansas is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list AR while later work occurs in Texas or Missouri. Defense awards coded to those states do not sit in this total even if the vendor’s mailroom is in Little Rock. This packet does not split Little Rock from Fort Smith or Pine Bluff.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $4,954,201,250 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in Arkansas over-reads the field.

Award count 64,491 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Arkansas–DoD overlay. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

What this pair does not prove

A large Defense total in Arkansas does not mean the agency caused Arkansas’s industrial mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between base geography and award dollars is expected; it is not a finding about readiness or waste.

Keep $4,954,201,250 labeled as agency 097 obligations with Arkansas place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. An agency name that appears near a donor occupation is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline into USAspending.

How to cite the Arkansas–Defense pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense), Arkansas place of performance, $4,954,201,250 in obligations, and 64,491 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $4,954,201,250 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $76,820 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical air-base contract.

Department of Defense in Arkansas, Arkansas federal spending, Department of Defense, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $4,954,201,250 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Little Rock-versus-Fort Smith folklore is not a metro split in this packet. A long award list is still a record count, including modifications. Do not rank Arkansas as more militarized because the action count is large. Readiness is not a field in this packet.

Questions

How much has the Defense Department obligated in Arkansas?

USAspending.gov records $4,954,201,250 in obligations for awarding agency 097 with Arkansas place of performance, covering 64,491 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Defense’s nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Why are there so many Defense awards in Arkansas relative to the dollars?

The extract lists 64,491 award actions totaling $4,954,201,250. Average obligation per award is about $76,820, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical air-base contract. Unique recipients are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is this a Little Rock-only Defense total?

No. $4,954,201,250 and 64,491 awards are statewide Arkansas place of performance. This packet does not split Little Rock from Fort Smith or Pine Bluff. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Defense–Arkansas table?

Department of Defense in Arkansas is the overlay. Arkansas federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Defense shows agency 097 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.