Department of Defense federal obligations in California (agency 097)

What the Defense–California join is

Awarding agency 097 and place-of-performance state CA meet here. $287,010,885,283 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not DoD’s worldwide total, not California’s entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Aerospace and naval folklore may send a reader here; those stories are not packet NAICS.

353,990 is a large action count. Modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique vendors are not published here. Dividing $287,010,885,283 by 353,990 yields about $810,788 per award on average. The join does not rank California against other states.

Open Department of Defense in California for the filtered table, California federal spending for all agencies, Department of Defense for agency 097 nationwide, and All spending ties for other pairs.

Agency 097 as the awarding side

USAspending labels awarding agency 097 as Department of Defense. That code produced $287,010,885,283 when crossed with California place of performance. The agency-wide 097 page does not require CA geography. The California hub does not require Defense. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 353,990 awards.

A second Defense slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat California’s 097 total as a synonym for every DoD account. HHS and SSA California joins on this site are separate filters.

Place of performance in California

California on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to California residents. Awards can list CA while later work occurs in Nevada, Arizona, or elsewhere. Defense awards coded to those states do not sit in $287,010,885,283 even if the vendor’s mailroom is in San Diego.

Base and aerospace concentration in California is a coding fact, not a finding about readiness. The California federal spending hub shows how agency 097 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same geography. This packet does not split San Diego from the Bay Area.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. $287,010,885,283 is that kind of sum. Outlays can lag. This packet has no outlay total and no fiscal-year split. Citing the figure as cash already spent in California over-reads the field.

Award count 353,990 is a record count, not a payment count and not a unique-contractor census. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the California–Defense overlay.

What this pair does not prove

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

Keep $287,010,885,283 labeled as agency 097 obligations with California place of performance. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

How to cite the California–Defense pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense), California place of performance, $287,010,885,283 in obligations, and 353,990 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $287,010,885,283 cash outlays.

Department of Defense in California, California federal spending, Department of Defense, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $287,010,885,283 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Metro folklore is not a packet split; awards stay statewide. A high award-action count is still a record count, including modifications. Do not rank California as more militarized because Defense dollars are large. Readiness is not a field in this packet. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.

San Diego-versus-Bay Area folklore is not a metro split in this packet. A later USAspending ingest can restate the dollar total without changing the join key of agency 097 and CA. Aerospace names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars.

Questions

How much has the Defense Department obligated in California?

USAspending.gov records $287,010,885,283 in obligations for awarding agency 097 with California place of performance, covering 353,990 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not DoD’s nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Does $287.0 billion mean DoD spent that much in California?

No. The figure is obligations on awards tagged to agency 097 and California place of performance. Outlays can differ. Place of performance is a geography field, not proof that every dollar was disbursed to California vendors or residents. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is this the same as HHS in California?

No. This join uses awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) and 353,990 awards totaling $287,010,885,283. HHS in California is agency 075 on a different page with a different dollar total. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Defense–California table?

Department of Defense in California is the overlay. California 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.