Department of Defense federal obligations in Florida

A high-volume Defense file on a Florida tag

Three hundred fifty-seven thousand thirty-one records survive the join of Department of Defense and Florida place-of-performance. Those records sum to $120,730,176,653.86. Volume and dollars are different stories. A file can mint modifications all year and still move the dollar column slowly.

The implied mean is about $338,200 per award. That is lower than a thin Energy-lab cell and consistent with a mix that includes many smaller actions. The packet does not label how many of the 357,031 rows are modifications. This page will not guess.

Florida’s statewide hub and the Defense agency hub are parents, not substitutes. Department of Defense in Florida is the overlap. A Coast Guard or VA award in Florida is outside agency 097 even when the state tag matches. Florida’s 357,031 Defense records are an order of magnitude thicker than many agency-state cells in this slice. That thickness is a property of how often award actions were written, including modifications. It is not a unique-vendor census and not a unique-installation census. $120,730,176,653.86 is still the obligation sum for agency 097 inside FL coding.

Bases, contractors, and what this join omits

Named installations do not appear in the packet facts. $120,730,176,653.86 is not a roster of Florida bases and is not a jobs model. Place-of-performance can follow a contractor’s billing address. Work performed elsewhere can still carry an FL tag, and work in Florida can carry another state’s tag on a different award.

Treating 357,031 awards as 357,031 Florida defense jobs is a category error. The count is award actions. Unique vendors and unique employees are unpublished here. Classified lines beyond the public file are not restored. USAspending.gov remains the source. SpendingVault does not add annexes. Readers sometimes want a Navy-versus-Air-Force split. This packet has no service field. The 357,031 rows and $120,730,176,653.86 stay at awarding-agency 097. Sub-agency tables would be a different extract. Department of Defense in Florida does not invent one.

Commitment timing on agency 097 in Florida

Obligations can precede outlays by months or years on multi-year vehicles. $120,730,176,653.86 should be cited as commitments on awards, not as Treasury checks already cleared in Florida.

Tallahassee’s enacted budget is not this series. If a local story mixes state general revenue with the 357,031-row Defense cell, the story has changed datasets.

Statewide FL, not a Panhandle-versus-South split

This packet does not split $120,730,176,653.86 by region. A Panhandle airfield narrative and a South Florida contractor narrative would need geography below the state. 357,031 awards stay statewide.

Follow Florida federal spending for all agencies in the state extract, Department of Defense for 097 nationwide in this index, and All spending ties for other joins. None of those pages assigns a readiness grade to Florida.

How to quote Defense obligations in Florida

Quote USAspending.gov: Department of Defense obligated $120,730,176,653.86 on 357,031 awards coded to Florida (agency 097). Name Defense and Florida in the same sentence.

Refresh from Department of Defense in Florida if the live overlay moved. This JSON is the packet snapshot.

Join caveats in one place

Agency 097 × FL is not a claim that Florida’s economy depends on $120,730,176,653.86. Dependence ratios need GDP or employment series this packet does not include. Correlation is not causation.

Do not divide $120,730,176,653.86 by an invented population to produce per-capita Defense spending. Population is not a fact here. Do not plot $120,730,176,653.86 against an invented GDP or tourism series and call the ratio dependence. Those series are not in the packet. Do not plot 357,031 awards against an invented troop count. The join is geography plus agency code. Florida federal spending remains the all-agency parent. Department of Defense remains the 097 parent. All spending ties remains the series index. Quote those hrefs rather than a third-party base map that is not USAspending.gov. A later ingest can move a thick file at the edges: many small modifications change the count faster than the dollars. Recheck the overlay. Keep the obligation label on $120,730,176,653.86 even when a headline wants “spent.”

Questions

How much has the Department of Defense obligated in Florida?

USAspending.gov shows $120,730,176,653.86 across 357,031 awards tagged to Department of Defense (097) and Florida. That pair is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Florida’s complete federal total. USAspending.gov is the originating system. Department of Defense in Florida is the live overlay for this pair. $120,730,176,653.86 remains an obligation sum, not an outlay, across 357,031 awards.

Why is the Florida Defense award count so high?

The extract counts 357,031 award actions. Modifications and small actions can thicken a file without each row being a new program. The packet does not publish a unique-contract or unique-vendor count. This packet publishes only the Department of Defense (agency 097) join inside Florida coding. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote $120,730,176,653.86 and 357,031 together.

Does this include every dollar spent at Florida military installations?

No. $120,730,176,653.86 covers USAspending award obligations with awarding agency 097 and an FL geography tag. Installation-level ledgers and classified files are not this table. SpendingVault indexes the pair; it does not convert $120,730,176,653.86 into cash already paid. Later ingests can revise 357,031 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the overlay for this pair?

Department of Defense in Florida. Parent pages are Florida federal spending and Department of Defense. All spending ties lists other state-agency joins. Florida federal spending and Department of Defense are parent hubs, not addends. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $120,730,176,653.86. Obligations are not outlays.