Department of Defense federal obligations in Connecticut (agency 097)

What the Defense–Connecticut join is

Awarding agency 097 and place-of-performance state CT meet here. $200,827,704,467 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not DoD’s worldwide total, not Connecticut’s entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Shipyard folklore may send a reader here; those stories are not packet NAICS.

75,691 award actions sit behind that dollar figure. Modifications add rows. Unique vendors are not published here. Dividing $200,827,704,467 by 75,691 yields about $2,653,257 per award on average. The join does not rank Connecticut against other states.

Open Department of Defense in Connecticut for the filtered table, Connecticut 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 $200,827,704,467 when crossed with Connecticut place of performance. The agency-wide 097 page does not require CT geography. The Connecticut hub does not require Defense. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 75,691 awards.

A second Defense slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Connecticut’s 097 total as a synonym for every DoD account.

Place of performance in Connecticut

Connecticut on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to Connecticut residents. Awards can list CT while later work occurs in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, or elsewhere. Defense awards coded to those states do not sit in $200,827,704,467 even if the vendor’s mailroom is in Groton.

Shipyard concentration in Connecticut is a coding fact, not a finding about readiness. The Connecticut federal spending hub shows how agency 097 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same geography. This packet does not split the shoreline from Hartford.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. $200,827,704,467 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 Connecticut over-reads the field.

Award count 75,691 is a record count, not a payment count and not a unique-contractor census. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Connecticut–Defense overlay.

What this pair does not prove

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

Keep $200,827,704,467 labeled as agency 097 obligations with Connecticut place of performance. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

How to cite the Connecticut–Defense pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense), Connecticut place of performance, $200,827,704,467 in obligations, and 75,691 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $200,827,704,467 cash outlays.

Department of Defense in Connecticut, Connecticut federal spending, Department of Defense, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $200,827,704,467 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Shipyard names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Do not rank Connecticut 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.

Hartford-versus-shoreline 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 CT. Shipyard names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Keep the obligation label in every reuse.

Questions

How much has the Defense Department obligated in Connecticut?

USAspending.gov records $200,827,704,467 in obligations for awarding agency 097 with Connecticut place of performance, covering 75,691 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not DoD’s nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Does $200.8 billion mean DoD spent that much in Connecticut?

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

Is this a Groton-only shipyard total?

No. $200,827,704,467 and 75,691 awards are statewide Connecticut place of performance. This packet does not split Groton, Hartford, or any other city. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Defense–Connecticut table?

Department of Defense in Connecticut is the overlay. Connecticut 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.