Department of Defense in Colorado 6th District (CO-06)
Place-of-performance CO-06 crossed with Department of Defense (agency 097) yields $15,047,769,196.49 in USAspending.gov obligations on 1,620 awards. One thousand six hundred twenty Defense-coded awards still equal about sixty-four percent of CO-06's district obligation total — fewer rows than the Colorado 5th Defense cell, a different concentration story. That pair is Department of Defense and Colorado 6th District (CO-06) — not Colorado's entire federal inflow, not Department of Defense nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 63.8% of this district's published obligation total ($23,602,717,831.55). Implied average obligation is about $9,288,746.42 ($15,047,769,196.49 ÷ 1,620). Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- Defense in Colorado 6th District (CO-06): $15,047,769,196.49 across 1,620 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $9,288,746.42 per record; district share 63.8% of $23,602,717,831.55.
- Agency 097 × CO-06 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote Colorado 6th District and Department of Defense if live tables moved.
- Colorado federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $15,047,769,196.49.
The Colorado 6th District (CO-06) filter on Defense
Awarding agency 097 and congressional district CO-06 meet here. $15,047,769,196.49 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 Colorado 6th District (CO-06), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments. 1,620 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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.
Dividing $15,047,769,196.49 by 1,620 yields about $9,288,746.42 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 1,620 awards is a thinner Defense file than a four-thousand-row Colorado pair. A smaller row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities. Do not treat CO-06's 097 cell as a synonym for every Defense account nationwide. Open Colorado 6th District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Defense for agency 097 without a CO-06 filter, Colorado federal spending for every awarding agency in the Colorado extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $15,047,769,196.49.
The Department of Defense awarding-agency rollup
USAspending labels awarding agency 097 as Department of Defense. That code produced $15,047,769,196.49 when crossed with Colorado 6th District (CO-06) place of performance. The agency-wide 097 hub does not require CO-06 geography. The district hub does not require Defense. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 1,620 awards. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments.
Correlation is not causation: Colorado 6th District (CO-06) did not cause $15,047,769,196.49 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 097 × CO-06 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.
Reading the CO-06 stamp
Colorado 6th District (CO-06) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list CO-06 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Colorado districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 097. Colorado 6th District (CO-06) is a numbered USAspending geography inside Colorado. Neighboring Colorado districts are not this join even when they reuse awarding-agency 097.
Colorado federal spending shows how agency 097 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $15,047,769,196.49 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Colorado 6th District (CO-06) 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 $23,602,717,831.55; $15,047,769,196.49 is the Defense slice of that denominator.
USAspending obligations on this pair
USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $15,047,769,196.49 is that kind of sum for Department of Defense inside CO-06 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 $15,047,769,196.49 as given.
Colorado's own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 1,620-row Defense cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 1,620 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 ($9,288,746.42) is a concentration statistic, not a typical CO-06 Defense payment.
Citing $15,047,769,196.49 without dropping a join side
Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Defense (agency 097) obligated $15,047,769,196.49 on 1,620 awards coded to Colorado 6th District (CO-06). Name Department of Defense and Colorado 6th District (CO-06) together. Keep the obligation word. If Colorado 6th 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. 63.8% of $23,602,717,831.55 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.
Row count versus dollar concentration
1,620 awards is a thinner Defense file than a four-thousand-row Colorado pair. A smaller row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities. Row-count differences across Colorado Defense cells are not a performance score. This page reports CO-06 only. 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 $9,288,746.42) and the district share (63.8% of $23,602,717,831.55) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Colorado 6th District and Department of Defense if the live tables moved.
Questions
- How much Defense spending is coded to Colorado 6th District (CO-06)?
- USAspending.gov lists $15,047,769,196.49 in Department of Defense obligations across 1,620 awards with place of performance in Colorado 6th District (CO-06). Agency 097 × CO-06 is an obligation join, not an outlay. The cell is 63.8% of the district total ($23,602,717,831.55). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $9,288,746.42, a ratio only.
- Does $15,047,769,196.49 include every Defense program in CO-06?
- The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments. $15,047,769,196.49 is the combined obligation sum for agency 097 inside CO-06. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Defense and Colorado 6th District for parent tables. 1,620 remains an action count, not a program count.
- Is $15,047,769,196.49 cash already paid in Colorado 6th District (CO-06)?
- No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays are a different concept and are not this packet's headline. Treating $15,047,769,196.49 as checks already cleared in Colorado 6th District (CO-06) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 1,620 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
- Why is the implied average $9,288,746.42 not a typical award?
- The average is $15,047,769,196.49 divided by 1,620 awards, about $9,288,746.42. Thick files pull the mean down; thin files pull it up. Neither case publishes a typical instrument. Modifications add rows. Recipients are unpublished. Keep Department of Defense and Colorado 6th District (CO-06) on the same citation as $15,047,769,196.49.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.