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Department of Defense in California 42nd District (CA-42)

Awarding agency 097 and California 42nd District (CA-42) meet at $13,128,417,594.38 in USAspending.gov obligations, spread across 2,944 awards. Two thousand nine hundred forty-four Defense-coded awards cover about eighty-six percent of CA-42's district obligation total, a high-share California Defense geography that is not CA-52 or CA-48. That pair is Department of Defense and California 42nd District (CA-42) — not California's entire federal inflow, not Department of Defense nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 86.2% of this district's published obligation total ($15,223,121,445.88). Implied average obligation is about $4,459,380.98 ($13,128,417,594.38 ÷ 2,944). Correlation is not causation.

Key figures

  • Defense in California 42nd District (CA-42): $13,128,417,594.38 across 2,944 USAspending awards.
  • Implied mean about $4,459,380.98 per record; district share 86.2% of $15,223,121,445.88.
  • Agency 097 × CA-42 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
  • Cite USAspending.gov; quote California 42nd District and Department of Defense if live tables moved.
  • California federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $13,128,417,594.38.

Reading agency 097 inside CA-42

Awarding agency 097 and congressional district CA-42 meet here. $13,128,417,594.38 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 California 42nd District (CA-42), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments. 2,944 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. This cell is not an installation map, a platform catalog, or a named-contractor file.

This page reports defense awarding activity USAspending tagged to this district. The headline $13,128,417,594.38 sits beside a district-wide obligation total of $15,223,121,445.88; the 86.2% share is arithmetic on those two packet facts, not a ranking of California districts as winners or losers. District 90 and 98 placeholders are omitted from this harvest. Obligations are not outlays.

Agency 097 without inventing a component pie

USAspending labels awarding agency 097 as Department of Defense. That code produced $13,128,417,594.38 when crossed with California 42nd District (CA-42) place of performance. The agency-wide 097 hub does not require CA-42 geography. The district hub does not require Defense. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 2,944 awards. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: California 42nd District (CA-42) did not cause $13,128,417,594.38 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 097 × CA-42 only. This cell is not an installation map, a platform catalog, or a named-contractor file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.

How California 42nd District is coded

California 42nd District (CA-42) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list CA-42 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other California districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 097. California 42nd District (CA-42) is not other California districts. Same awarding-agency code 097 on a different stamp is a different dollar total.

California federal spending shows how agency 097 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $13,128,417,594.38 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split California 42nd District (CA-42) by county, city, or census tract. Awards that carry a different awarding-agency code stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to Department of Defense. The district-wide obligation total published here is $15,223,121,445.88; $13,128,417,594.38 is the Defense slice of that denominator.

What the dollar figure is allowed to mean

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $13,128,417,594.38 is that kind of sum for Department of Defense inside CA-42 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 rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $13,128,417,594.38 as given.

California's own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 2,944-row Defense cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 2,944 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. The implied mean ($4,459,380.98) is a concentration statistic, not a typical CA-42 Defense payment.

Parents of this tie: district, agency, state

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Defense (agency 097) obligated $13,128,417,594.38 on 2,944 awards coded to California 42nd District (CA-42). Name Department of Defense and California 42nd District (CA-42) together. Keep the obligation word. If California 42nd District or Department of Defense has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not an installation map, a platform catalog, or a named-contractor file. 86.2% of $15,223,121,445.88 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Keep Department of Defense, California 42nd District (CA-42), $13,128,417,594.38, and 2,944 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Defense is the 097 parent without a CA-42 filter. California federal spending is the California parent. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a district with Defense does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending join.

Limits of the CA-42 × 097 snapshot

2,944 awards is a moderate Defense file. High share is not a contractor roster and not an installation map. Other California Defense cells can show similar shares with different row counts. Same agency, different geography. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $4,459,380.98) and the district share (86.2% of $15,223,121,445.88) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer California 42nd District and Department of Defense if the live tables moved.

Do not rank California 42nd District (CA-42) as more Defense-dependent than neighboring districts on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 097 ties with different dollar totals, or no published 097 cell in this harvest. This snapshot holds $13,128,417,594.38 and 2,944 only. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much Defense spending is coded to California 42nd District (CA-42)?
USAspending.gov lists $13,128,417,594.38 in Department of Defense obligations across 2,944 awards with place of performance in California 42nd District (CA-42). Agency 097 × CA-42 is an obligation join, not an outlay. The cell is 86.2% of the district total ($15,223,121,445.88). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $4,459,380.98, a ratio only.
Does $13,128,417,594.38 include every Defense program in CA-42?
The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments. $13,128,417,594.38 is the combined obligation sum for agency 097 inside CA-42. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Defense and California 42nd District for parent tables. 2,944 remains an action count, not a program count.
Is $13,128,417,594.38 cash already paid in California 42nd District (CA-42)?
No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays are a different concept and are not this packet's headline. Treating $13,128,417,594.38 as checks already cleared in California 42nd District (CA-42) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 2,944 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
Do FEC donations fund these Defense awards in CA-42?
No. FEC receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets. Sharing California geography does not mean donations funded $13,128,417,594.38 in California 42nd District (CA-42). This page reports USAspending.gov awarding-agency 097 crossed with CA-42. It does not report campaign finance. Keep Department of Defense and California 42nd District (CA-42) on the same citation as $13,128,417,594.38.

USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.