Department of Defense federal obligations in Delaware

What the Defense-Delaware join is

Awarding agency 097 and place-of-performance state DE meet here. $1,192,336,655.22 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Defense's nationwide budget, not Delaware's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Dover Air Force Base folklore and statewide depot stories may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a base census.

11,259 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — a very long award list beside a billion-dollar obligation total. A long row list can mix small supply actions with larger instruments. The join does not rank Delaware against other states and does not name installations inside the extract.

Open Department of Defense in Delaware for the filtered table, Delaware federal spending for the next hub, Department of Defense for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

11,259 Defense actions under one Delaware filter

Dividing $1,192,336,655.22 by 11,259 yields about $105,900.76 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical airlift contract. Repeat awards and modifications still add rows; the listed count is not a unique-recipient census. Base names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars.

Dover air force base folklore and statewide depot stories is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative's extra columns.

Agency 097 without a Delaware overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Department of Defense page aggregates 097 without requiring DE geography. The Delaware federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Delaware place of performance. Only Department of Defense in Delaware applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 11,259 awards and $1,192,336,655.22.

Place of performance in Delaware is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list DE while later work occurs in Maryland or Pennsylvania. Defense awards coded to those states do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in Dover. This packet does not split Dover from Wilmington or Georgetown.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $1,192,336,655.22 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in Delaware over-reads the field.

Award count 11,259 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Delaware-DoD overlay. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

What this pair does not prove

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

Keep $1,192,336,655.22 labeled as agency 097 obligations with Delaware place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. An agency name that appears near a donor occupation is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline into USAspending.

How to cite the Delaware-Defense pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense), Delaware place of performance, $1,192,336,655.22 in obligations, and 11,259 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $1,192,336,655.22 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $105,900.76 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical airlift contract.

Department of Defense in Delaware, Delaware federal spending, Department of Defense, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $1,192,336,655.22 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Dover-versus-Wilmington folklore is not a metro split in this packet. A long award list is still a record count, including modifications. Do not rank Delaware as more militarized because the action count is large. Readiness is not a field in this packet.

Questions

How much has the Defense Department obligated in Delaware?

USAspending.gov records $1,192,336,655.22 in obligations for awarding agency 097 with Delaware place of performance, covering 11,259 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Defense's nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Why are there so many Defense awards in Delaware relative to the dollars?

The extract lists 11,259 award actions totaling $1,192,336,655.22. Average obligation per award is about $105,900.76, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical airlift contract. Unique recipients are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is this a Dover-only Defense total?

No. $1,192,336,655.22 and 11,259 awards are statewide Delaware place of performance. This packet does not split Dover from Wilmington or Georgetown. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Defense-Delaware table?

Department of Defense in Delaware is the overlay. Delaware 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.