Department of Defense obligations in Colorado 4th District (CO-04)

DoD is a minority slice of a very large CO-04 district book

Colorado 4th District (CO-04) has a very large all-agency obligation book. Defense agency 097 is a minority slice of that book. A smaller share means other awarding agencies dominate the district total, not that Defense dollars are trivial on their own terms. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $4,660,378,553.47 on 414 awards for awarding agency 097 with Colorado 4th District (CO-04) 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 414 awards equal 414 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 $4,660,378,553.47 unless those awards also carry agency 097 and CO-04 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-04 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $4,660,378,553.47 in a district treasury. Colorado 3rd District Defense in this slice is a different geography. Do not fold CO-03 into CO-04.

414 Defense awards in Colorado 4th District

Four hundred fourteen DoD awards is a thin grain for a multi-billion cell. Thin grain usually means larger average vehicles, not fewer people, and the packet has no people count. Mean obligation is about $11,256,953.03 if $4,660,378,553.47 were divided evenly across 414 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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 4th District for the stored district table and Department of Defense for the national agency shelf. Do not convert 414 into a map of installations, contractors, or service members inside Colorado 4th District. The $4,660,378,553.47 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on USAspending.gov rather than inferring an inventory.

CO-04 DoD obligations are not the district-wide total

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 $4,660,378,553.47 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 $4,660,378,553.47 into a yearly run rate.

Keep the obligation word on $4,660,378,553.47. Keep both Department of Defense and Colorado 4th District (CO-04) 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 4th District Defense extract omits

The extract has no roster of installations, contractors, or service members. Facts remain $4,660,378,553.47, 414 awards, agency 097 (Department of Defense), Colorado 4th District (CO-04), and a district-wide book of $22,721,014,071.34. This page will not invent a contractor league table. Sibling district-agency joins are separate obligation totals, not a better or worse score.

Colorado 4th District places CO-04 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 $4,660,378,553.47 figure is the tagged pair only. Colorado 3rd District Defense in this slice is a different geography. Do not fold CO-03 into CO-04.

Citing Department of Defense in CO-04

A clean footnote names Department of Defense (agency 097), Colorado 4th District (CO-04), $4,660,378,553.47 in obligations, and 414 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not relabel 414 as a census of installations, contractors, or service members. Quote the district overlay if you need every awarding agency in CO-04, and quote the agency page if you need Department of Defense without a district filter. About 20.5% of the $22,721,014,071.34 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-04. The headline $4,660,378,553.47 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 4th 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 4th District?

USAspending.gov shows $4,660,378,553.47 in obligations for Department of Defense (agency 097) with Colorado 4th District (CO-04) as place of performance, across 414 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 414 awards mean 414 CO-04 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 $11,256,953.03 is a quotient, not a typical published award. See Colorado 4th District for stored lines.

Is the CO-04 district-wide total a Defense figure?

No. The join is awarding agency 097 crossed with CO-04 place of performance. The district-wide book on this extract is $22,721,014,071.34. Related agencies and other districts are not inside $4,660,378,553.47 unless they also carry both keys. Colorado 3rd District Defense in this slice is a different geography. Do not fold CO-03 into CO-04.

Is the CO-04 DoD total already disbursed?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $4,660,378,553.47 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.