Department of Defense obligations in California 20th District (CA-20)
USAspending.gov records $5,462,901,154.14 in Department of Defense (agency 097) obligations with California 20th District (CA-20) as place of performance. 2,105 awards carry that total, about 73.1% of the $7,470,665,187.57 district-wide obligation book on this extract. The pair is awarding agency 097 crossed with a congressional district geography tag, not the district's entire defense or veterans budget and not a census of installations, contractors, or service members. Amounts are obligations, not Treasury outlays.
Key figures
- Department of Defense in CA-20 shows $5,462,901,154.14 in USAspending obligations on 2,105 awards.
- 2,105 awards are a row count, not a census of installations, contractors, or service members.
- The join is agency 097 plus CA-20 place of performance, not every Defense dollar in California.
- The total is commitments, not outlays. FEC donations do not fund this cell.
DoD × CA-20 is a catalog join, not an installation map
California 20th District (CA-20) stores a Defense cell that is a substantial majority of this district book, short of CA-27's even higher share. Share differences between California districts are bookkeeping facts, not a ranking of bases that are not named in the packet. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $5,462,901,154.14 on 2,105 awards for awarding agency 097 with California 20th District (CA-20) as place of performance. Treat the pair as a table intersection, not a ranking of districts as winners or losers, and not a claim that 2,105 awards equal 2,105 Defense contractors. A Department of Defense amount tagged to a different district is out of this cell.
VA, DHS, or Energy awards that mention defense in a description sit outside $5,462,901,154.14 unless those awards also carry agency 097 and CA-20 geography. Mixing those lines would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and base employment or procurement headcount is not causation. Those series are not in the packet. Place of performance as CA-20 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $5,462,901,154.14 in a district treasury. Neighboring California districts are excluded unless they also carry both agency 097 and CA-20 geography.
2,105 Defense awards behind the CA-20 cell
Two thousand one hundred five DoD awards is a moderate file, close to CA-51's grain on a different dollar total. Mean obligation is about $2,595,202.45 if $5,462,901,154.14 were divided evenly across 2,105 lines — a mechanical ratio, not a published typical award. Award count is a row count of USAspending awards, including possible modifications. The extract does not split Army, Navy, Air Force, or other components inside agency 097. Unique recipients are unpublished.
This page will not invent contractor or recipient names. Open California 20th District for the stored district table and Department of Defense for the national agency shelf. Do not convert 2,105 into a map of installations, contractors, or service members inside California 20th District. The $5,462,901,154.14 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on USAspending.gov rather than inferring an inventory.
Defense dollars in CA-20 are obligations, not paid invoices
DoD obligations are commitments, not invoices already paid. DoD awards often obligate as contracts or assistance are recorded and draw as deliveries are billed. The $5,462,901,154.14 headline is the obligation sum on this district-agency join, not hardware already delivered or payroll already issued. Citing the figure as cash already sent confuses two USAspending concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. No fiscal year is attached to this packet; do not annualize $5,462,901,154.14 into a yearly run rate.
Keep the obligation word on $5,462,901,154.14. Keep both Department of Defense and California 20th District (CA-20) in the citation. Campaign contributions recorded on FEC.gov do not fund this USAspending cell. Different datasets can share a state abbreviation without sharing a money trail.
What the California 20th District Defense table omits
The extract has no roster of installations, contractors, or service members. Facts remain $5,462,901,154.14, 2,105 awards, agency 097 (Department of Defense), California 20th District (CA-20), and a district-wide book of $7,470,665,187.57. This page will not invent a contractor league table. Sibling district-agency joins are separate obligation totals, not a better or worse score.
California 20th District places CA-20 among other congressional districts. Department of Defense places agency 097 among other awarding agencies. California federal spending is the statewide shelf. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Mixing those shelves would invent a share of California spending or of Department of Defense's national book the packet never computed. The $5,462,901,154.14 figure is the tagged pair only. Neighboring California districts are excluded unless they also carry both agency 097 and CA-20 geography.
Citing Department of Defense in CA-20
A clean footnote names Department of Defense (agency 097), California 20th District (CA-20), $5,462,901,154.14 in obligations, and 2,105 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not relabel 2,105 as a census of installations, contractors, or service members. Quote the district overlay if you need every awarding agency in CA-20, and quote the agency page if you need Department of Defense without a district filter. About 73.1% of the $7,470,665,187.57 district book sits on this agency in the extract; that percentage is a derived ratio, not a separate published table.
A ties page exists because two tables meet. One table is awarding agency 097. The other is congressional district place of performance as CA-20. The headline $5,462,901,154.14 is the obligation sum on that intersection. It is not a forecast, not a budget request, and not an outlay. It is also not a claim that Department of Defense caused California 20th District's economy to grow, or that the district caused the awards to exist. If a later ingest moves the live overlay, prefer the overlay when the table and this snapshot diverge.
Questions
- How much did DoD obligate in California 20th District?
- USAspending.gov shows $5,462,901,154.14 in obligations for Department of Defense (agency 097) with California 20th District (CA-20) as place of performance, across 2,105 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district's entire defense or veterans budget. Other agencies in the district sit outside this join.
- Do 2,105 awards mean 2,105 CA-20 installations?
- No. Award count is a row count of USAspending awards and can include continuations. It is not a census of installations, contractors, or service members. The packet does not name recipients. Mean obligation of about $2,595,202.45 is a quotient, not a typical published award. See California 20th District for stored lines.
- Is this California's entire federal Defense funding?
- No. The join is awarding agency 097 crossed with CA-20 place of performance. The district-wide book on this extract is $7,470,665,187.57. Related agencies and other districts are not inside $5,462,901,154.14 unless they also carry both keys. Neighboring California districts are excluded unless they also carry both agency 097 and CA-20 geography.
- Is the CA-20 Defense total already paid to contractors?
- Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $5,462,901,154.14 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault's extract. Draws and remaining balances are not published in this packet. Remaining balances are not in the facts.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.