Department of Defense obligations in California 43rd District (CA-43)
The DoD × CA-43 cell on USAspending.gov is $3,908,837,313.20 in obligations across 3,100 awards. Three thousand one hundred Defense-coded awards equal about fifty-three percent of CA-43’s district obligation total, a majority DoD column inside a seven-point-four-billion-dollar district base. That pair is Department of Defense and California 43rd District (CA-43) — not California’s entire federal inflow, not Department of Defense nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 52.6% of this district’s published obligation total ($7,436,000,192.55). Implied average obligation is about $1,260,915.26 ($3,908,837,313.20 ÷ 3,100). Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- DoD in California 43rd District (CA-43): $3,908,837,313.20 across 3,100 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $1,260,915.26 per record; district share 52.6% of $7,436,000,192.55.
- Agency 097 × CA-43 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote California 43rd 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 $3,908,837,313.20.
A place-of-performance join: DoD × CA-43
Awarding agency 097 and congressional district CA-43 meet here. $3,908,837,313.20 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 43rd District (CA-43), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments. 3,100 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a base census, a troop roster, a weapons inventory, or a named-contractor file.
Dividing $3,908,837,313.20 by 3,100 yields about $1,260,915.26 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 3,100 awards is a thick Defense file. Orders and modifications multiply lines. Unique contractors remain unpublished. Do not treat CA-43’s 097 cell as a synonym for every DoD account nationwide. Open California 43rd District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Defense for agency 097 without the CA-43 filter, California federal spending for every awarding agency in the California extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $3,908,837,313.20.
Department of Defense as awarding agency, not as a named-vendor list
USAspending labels awarding agency 097 as Department of Defense. That code produced $3,908,837,313.20 when crossed with California 43rd District (CA-43) place of performance. The agency-wide 097 hub does not require CA-43 geography. The district hub does not require DoD. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 3,100 awards. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments.
Correlation is not causation: California 43rd District (CA-43) did not cause $3,908,837,313.20 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 097 × CA-43 only. It is not a base census, a troop roster, a weapons inventory, 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.
Place of performance for California 43rd District (CA-43)
California 43rd District (CA-43) 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-43 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other California districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 097. California 43rd District (CA-43) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside California. Other California districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 097. California 43rd District (CA-43) is a numbered place-of-performance stamp, distinct from California 19th and 24th District Defense cells. Same agency 097, different geography.
Obligation math for this join
USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $3,908,837,313.20 is that kind of sum for Department of Defense inside CA-43 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 $3,908,837,313.20 as given.
California’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 3,100-row DoD cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 3,100 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 ($1,260,915.26) is a concentration statistic, not a typical CA-43 DoD payment.
What a complete citation includes
Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Defense (agency 097) obligated $3,908,837,313.20 on 3,100 awards coded to California 43rd District (CA-43). Name Department of Defense and California 43rd District (CA-43) together. Keep the obligation word. If California 43rd District or Department of Defense has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a base census, a troop roster, a weapons inventory, or a named-contractor file. 52.6% of $7,436,000,192.55 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.
Using 52.6% and $1,260,915.26 without overclaiming
3,100 awards is a thick Defense file. Orders and modifications multiply lines. Unique contractors remain unpublished. 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 $1,260,915.26) and the district share (52.6% of $7,436,000,192.55) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer California 43rd District and Department of Defense if the live tables moved.
Do not rank California 43rd District (CA-43) as more DoD-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 $3,908,837,313.20 and 3,100 only. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.
Questions
- How much DoD spending is coded to California 43rd District (CA-43)?
- USAspending.gov lists $3,908,837,313.20 in DoD (agency 097) obligations across 3,100 awards coded to California 43rd District (CA-43). That pair is an obligation join, not an outlay and not California’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 52.6% of the district’s published total ($7,436,000,192.55). Unique recipients are unpublished.
- Does $3,908,837,313.20 include every DoD program in CA-43?
- The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments. $3,908,837,313.20 is the combined obligation sum for agency 097 inside CA-43 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. 3,100 remains an action count, not a program count.
- Is $3,908,837,313.20 cash already paid in California 43rd District (CA-43)?
- No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $3,908,837,313.20 as checks already cleared in California 43rd District (CA-43) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 3,100 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
- Is California 43rd District (CA-43) ranked against other California districts here?
- No. This page does not rank California 43rd District (CA-43) as a winner or loser. $3,908,837,313.20 and 3,100 describe one join. Neighboring districts have their own cells. District 90/98 placeholders are omitted. Cite Department of Defense and California 43rd District (CA-43) together without a league table.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.