Department of Defense obligations in Colorado

Defense and Colorado as a two-field filter

Keep awarding agency 097 and place-of-performance CO; sum obligations. The result in this harvest is $56,584,465,653.27 across 49,840 awards. That is the entire claim. It is not a count of bases, not a payroll, and not Colorado’s full federal total.

Forty-nine thousand eight hundred forty awards is fewer than some coastal Defense joins and more than many civilian agency–state files. About $1.14 million per award sits between the very high-count New York-style Defense means and the grant-heavy HHS means. That placement is descriptive of this row, not a ranking.

49,840 award records and $56,584,465,653.27 are the only two published facts that define this pair. Subtracting either key changes the number. The mean is arithmetic on those two facts. Readers who need a distribution have to leave this narrative for the overlay table.

Code 097 is not code 028

Department of Defense is the label on 097. Social Security Administration is 028. Both appear with Colorado place of performance in this inventory, and each has its own obligation total. Adding them on this page would invent a combined figure the packet does not publish. The overlay for this pair is /states/co/agencies/097/.

The Department of Defense agency hub drops the Colorado filter. The Colorado state hub drops the 097 filter. Neither hub equals $56,584,465,653.27.

The architecture is simple. One hub is the agency without geography. One hub is the geography without this agency. One overlay is both. $56,584,465,653.27 and 49,840 belong to the overlay. The hubs answer different questions.

Place of performance inside Colorado’s borders only

CO excludes Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Kansas, and Nebraska. Defense awards with those state codes are outside $56,584,465,653.27 and outside the 49,840 awards. Place of performance is not contractor headquarters and not a list of named facilities — those names are not in the facts.

The Colorado federal spending hub shows 097 next to other awarding agencies that also use CO. Table adjacency is not a supply chain.

Do not enlarge $56,584,465,653.27 into a regional estimate by adding neighbors from memory. Each neighbor is another filter, if it exists at all as a tie. This page has one geography code. That is the edge of the claim.

Obligations on 49,840 records

Each record can be modified. The published sum $56,584,465,653.27 is the obligation aggregate as harvested. Outlays are absent. No year is in the facts, so none is cited. Average about $1.14 million is only the two numbers divided.

Award count is not unique vendors. Repeat awards to the same recipient still increment the 49,840 if they are separate records.

What not to conclude

A Defense total in Colorado does not prove the state economy is “driven by” the Pentagon, and it does not prove the reverse. It does not connect USAspending to FEC donations. See Department of Defense in Colorado, Colorado federal spending, Department of Defense, and All spending ties.

How to read this pair next to the hubs

Colorado’s Defense pair is $56,584,465,653.27 on 49,840 awards, a mid-count file with a mean near $1.14 million.

Read Department of Defense in Colorado for the both-keys table, Colorado federal spending for the geography mix, Department of Defense for the agency without this state, and All spending ties for other pairs. $56,584,465,653.27 is not the agency nationwide and not the state from every agency. 49,840 is the row count inside the filter.

Place of performance does not mean every dollar was disbursed to residents of that state. Obligations do not mean outlays. Those distinctions are why $56,584,465,653.27 is described as a commitment aggregate.

Do not scale averages. Do not import FEC receipts. Do not treat this snapshot as live if the overlay has moved. The join remains $56,584,465,653.27 on 49,840 awards.

Researchers sometimes want a per-capita figure, a year split, or a list of top recipients under $56,584,465,653.27. Those products need columns this packet does not contain. Inventing a population divisor or a fiscal year would break the contract. What the packet does contain is the intersection: 49,840 award records summing to $56,584,465,653.27 in obligations. That is already a complete answer to the question “what does this agency–state pair publish?” It is an incomplete answer to almost every other question, and the incompleteness is the point of the caveats on this page. Department of Defense in Colorado remains the filtered table. Colorado federal spending and Department of Defense remain the parents. All spending ties remains the index of other intersections.

Questions

How much has the Department of Defense obligated in Colorado?

USAspending records $56,584,465,653.27 in obligations for agency 097 with Colorado place of performance, on 49,840 awards. That is the Defense–Colorado join, not an outlay total. The pair is awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) and place-of-performance Colorado. It is not Department of Defense nationwide and not Colorado from every awarding agency.

Is Colorado’s SSA total included?

No. Social Security Administration is a different awarding-agency overlay. This page is Department of Defense 097 only: $56,584,465,653.27 on 49,840 awards. Only place-of-performance Colorado plus awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) enter $56,584,465,653.27. Adjacent state codes are other filters, if they exist as ties at all.

What is the average award size?

About $1.14 million ($56,584,465,653.27 ÷ 49,840). The mean mixes vehicles and is not a typical contract. That ratio uses only $56,584,465,653.27 and 49,840 from the packet. A mean hides mix: a few large instruments can sit beside many smaller ones.

Does place of performance list bases?

This aggregate is a state code (CO) plus an agency code (097). Installation names are not in the facts. The $56,584,465,653.27 total follows those two fields only. The facts are agency 097 and place-of-performance Colorado totaling $56,584,465,653.27 on 49,840 awards.