Department of Defense obligations in Colorado 3rd District (CO-03)

DoD × CO-03 is an awarding-agency join, not an installation score

Colorado 3rd District (CO-03) stores a Defense cell with more than a thousand award rows — thicker than CO-04's 414-row file. Thicker grain is a file fact. Installation names are not in the packet and will not be used as causes. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $4,166,040,983.85 on 1,324 awards for awarding agency 097 with Colorado 3rd District (CO-03) 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 1,324 awards equal 1,324 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 $4,166,040,983.85 unless those awards also carry agency 097 and CO-03 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 CO-03 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $4,166,040,983.85 in a district treasury. Correlation between this obligation sum and unpublished employment series is not causation. Those series are not in the facts.

1,324 Defense awards in Colorado 3rd District

One thousand three hundred twenty-four DoD awards can include grants, contracts, and continuations. It is not 1,324 installations. Mean obligation is about $3,146,556.63 if $4,166,040,983.85 were divided evenly across 1,324 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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 Colorado 3rd District for the stored district table and Department of Defense for the national agency shelf. Do not convert 1,324 into a map of installations, contractors, or service members inside Colorado 3rd District. The $4,166,040,983.85 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on USAspending.gov rather than inferring an inventory.

CO-03 DoD obligations are not hardware already delivered

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 $4,166,040,983.85 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 $4,166,040,983.85 into a yearly run rate.

Keep the obligation word on $4,166,040,983.85. Keep both Department of Defense and Colorado 3rd District (CO-03) 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 Colorado 3rd District Defense table omits

The extract has no roster of installations, contractors, or service members. Facts remain $4,166,040,983.85, 1,324 awards, agency 097 (Department of Defense), Colorado 3rd District (CO-03), and a district-wide book of $11,761,569,447.55. This page will not invent a contractor league table. Sibling district-agency joins are separate obligation totals, not a better or worse score.

Colorado 3rd District places CO-03 among other congressional districts. Department of Defense places agency 097 among other awarding agencies. Colorado federal spending is the statewide shelf. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Mixing those shelves would invent a share of Colorado spending or of Department of Defense's national book the packet never computed. The $4,166,040,983.85 figure is the tagged pair only. Correlation between this obligation sum and unpublished employment series is not causation. Those series are not in the facts.

Citing Department of Defense in CO-03

A clean footnote names Department of Defense (agency 097), Colorado 3rd District (CO-03), $4,166,040,983.85 in obligations, and 1,324 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not relabel 1,324 as a census of installations, contractors, or service members. Quote the district overlay if you need every awarding agency in CO-03, and quote the agency page if you need Department of Defense without a district filter. About 35.4% of the $11,761,569,447.55 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 CO-03. The headline $4,166,040,983.85 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 Colorado 3rd 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 Colorado 3rd District?

USAspending.gov shows $4,166,040,983.85 in obligations for Department of Defense (agency 097) with Colorado 3rd District (CO-03) as place of performance, across 1,324 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 1,324 awards mean 1,324 CO-03 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 $3,146,556.63 is a quotient, not a typical published award. See Colorado 3rd District for stored lines.

Is this Colorado's entire DoD obligation book?

No. The join is awarding agency 097 crossed with CO-03 place of performance. The district-wide book on this extract is $11,761,569,447.55. Related agencies and other districts are not inside $4,166,040,983.85 unless they also carry both keys. Correlation between this obligation sum and unpublished employment series is not causation. Those series are not in the facts.

Is the CO-03 DoD total already paid as contract outlays?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $4,166,040,983.85 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.