Department of Defense obligations in the District of Columbia

Defense in the District, not HHS in the District

This pair is 097 × DC. $30,990,522,913.42 is the Defense obligation sum. 16,637 is the Defense award count. Department of Health and Human Services in the District of Columbia is a separate tie with a different awarding-agency code. The two totals are not added here.

About $1.86 million per award is the ratio. Headquarters concentration can produce administrative awards coded to DC even when performance later occurs elsewhere. That is a reason to read the geography field narrowly.

The temptation is to narrate $30,990,522,913.42 as money delivered to residents, then to narrate 16,637 as people served. Neither translation is in the fields. Obligations are commitments. Award count is records. The overlay, not the average, is the next step for anyone who needs rows.

Agency 097 without the District filter

The Department of Defense hub drops DC and will not equal $30,990,522,913.42. The District hub drops 097 and includes civilian awarding agencies. Overlay /states/dc/agencies/097/ is the both-keys table for 16,637 awards.

If a citation of $30,990,522,913.42 does not mention both the awarding agency and the place-of-performance state, it is not citing this join. If a citation of 16,637 does not mention both keys, it is not this file’s count.

DC is not Maryland or Virginia

Place of performance District of Columbia excludes MD and VA. Defense awards coded to those states are outside $30,990,522,913.42 even when the commuting area is the same. Place of performance is not the Pentagon’s mailing address by itself — address and performance state can differ.

The District of Columbia federal spending hub shows 097 next to 075. Table neighbors are not a combined capital-region Defense-plus-health score.

Households, facilities, and vendors are not columns in the packet. Listing them would be invention. $30,990,522,913.42 remains an obligation sum on a state tag. The overlay can show rows; this narrative will not invent names for those rows.

Obligations in a capital geography

The published $30,990,522,913.42 is a commitment aggregate. Outlays are unpublished. No year is in the facts. Award count 16,637 is not unique vendors and not a count of Pentagon offices.

Citing the total as money “spent on District residents” would over-read both the geography field and the obligation field.

What the join does not show

A Defense total in the District does not measure national security outcomes. It does not connect USAspending to FEC donations. See Department of Defense in District of Columbia, District of Columbia federal spending, Department of Defense, and All spending ties.

How to read this pair next to the hubs

The District’s Defense pair is $30,990,522,913.42 on 16,637 awards. Maryland and Virginia are other codes.

When citing $30,990,522,913.42, name the awarding agency and the place-of-performance state in the same breath. Department of Defense in District of Columbia is that citation’s home. District of Columbia federal spending and Department of Defense answer wider questions. All spending ties lists other intersections. 16,637 is not unique vendors.

Nothing in the facts converts obligations to outlays or assigns $30,990,522,913.42 to a fiscal year. Nothing lists facilities. Correlation between an agency code and a state code is a join result, not a finding about local economies.

A later harvest can revise totals. Use the overlay as the operational source. Do not sum this page with other overlays to invent a combined presence score. The published pair is $30,990,522,913.42 on 16,637 awards.

When two overlays share a state, they still do not share a ledger. Adding this $30,990,522,913.42 to another awarding agency’s total on the same geography would invent a combined figure the packet does not publish. 16,637 would not be comparable across agencies anyway, because reporting volume differs. The correct move is to read each overlay separately, then use District of Columbia federal spending if a side-by-side of agencies is required, and Department of Defense if a side-by-side of states for this agency is required. All spending ties lists the other pairs without summing them.

Questions

How much has DoD obligated in the District of Columbia?

USAspending records $30,990,522,913.42 in obligations for agency 097 with District of Columbia place of performance, on 16,637 awards. That is the Defense–District join only. The pair is awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) and place-of-performance District of Columbia. It is not Department of Defense nationwide and not District of Columbia from every awarding agency.

Does this include Maryland or Virginia?

No. Place of performance is DC only. Maryland and Virginia are outside $30,990,522,913.42 and outside the 16,637 awards. Only place-of-performance District of Columbia plus awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) enter $30,990,522,913.42. Adjacent state codes are other filters, if they exist as ties at all.

Is HHS in the District included?

No. Department of Health and Human Services is a different awarding-agency overlay. This page is Department of Defense 097: $30,990,522,913.42 on 16,637 awards. Only place-of-performance District of Columbia plus awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) enter $30,990,522,913.42. Adjacent state codes are other filters, if they exist as ties at all.

Are these outlays to District residents?

No. The aggregate is obligations on awards tagged to 097 and DC place of performance. Outlays can differ. Place of performance is not a resident-benefit census. USAspending’s source note for this aggregate is that obligations are not outlays. Place of performance District of Columbia is a geography tag, not a roster of residents, vendors, or named facilities.