Department of Defense obligations in Georgia 11th District (GA-11)
The Defense × GA-11 cell on USAspending.gov is $22,346,812,088.84 in obligations across 1,412 awards. One thousand four hundred twelve Defense-coded awards cover about eighty-two percent of GA-11’s district obligation total, a majority Department of Defense cell with a higher implied mean than the thicker California Defense files. That pair is Department of Defense and Georgia 11th District (GA-11) — not Georgia’s entire federal inflow, not Department of Defense nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 82.1% of this district’s published obligation total ($27,235,358,479.78). Implied average obligation is about $15,826,354.17 ($22,346,812,088.84 ÷ 1,412). Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- Defense in Georgia 11th District (GA-11): $22,346,812,088.84 across 1,412 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $15,826,354.17 per record; district share 82.1% of $27,235,358,479.78.
- Agency 097 × GA-11 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote Georgia 11th District and Department of Defense if live tables moved.
- Georgia federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $22,346,812,088.84.
A place-of-performance join: Defense × GA-11
Awarding agency 097 and congressional district GA-11 meet here. $22,346,812,088.84 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Defense’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Georgia 11th District (GA-11), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split DoD components or contract versus assistance instruments. 1,412 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a base census, a weapons inventory, or a named-contractor file.
Dividing $22,346,812,088.84 by 1,412 yields about $15,826,354.17 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 1,412 awards is a moderately thick Defense file. Fewer rows than CA-50 or ME-01 pulls the implied mean up. Recipients remain unpublished. Do not treat GA-11’s 097 cell as a synonym for every Defense account nationwide. Open Georgia 11th District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Defense for agency 097 without the GA-11 filter, Georgia federal spending for every awarding agency in the Georgia extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $22,346,812,088.84.
Department of Defense as awarding agency, not as a named-vendor list
USAspending labels awarding agency 097 as Department of Defense. That code produced $22,346,812,088.84 when crossed with Georgia 11th District (GA-11) place of performance. The agency-wide 097 hub does not require GA-11 geography. The district hub does not require Defense. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 1,412 awards. The packet does not split DoD components or contract versus assistance instruments.
Correlation is not causation: Georgia 11th District (GA-11) did not “cause” $22,346,812,088.84 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 097 × GA-11 only. It is not a base census, a weapons inventory, or a named-contractor file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.
Place of performance for Georgia 11th District (GA-11)
Georgia 11th District (GA-11) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list GA-11 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Georgia districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 097. Georgia 11th District (GA-11) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Georgia. Other Georgia districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 097. Georgia 11th District (GA-11) is a numbered place-of-performance geography inside Georgia. Other Georgia districts are not this join. The packet does not publish a city split.
Obligation math for this join
USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $22,346,812,088.84 is that kind of sum for Department of Defense inside GA-11 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $22,346,812,088.84 as given.
Georgia’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 1,412-row Defense cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 1,412 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. The implied mean ($15,826,354.17) is a concentration statistic, not a typical GA-11 Defense payment.
What a complete citation includes
Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Defense (agency 097) obligated $22,346,812,088.84 on 1,412 awards coded to Georgia 11th District (GA-11). Name Department of Defense and Georgia 11th District (GA-11) together. Keep the obligation word. If Georgia 11th District or Department of Defense has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a base census, a weapons inventory, or a named-contractor file. 82.1% of $27,235,358,479.78 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.
Using 82.1% and $15,826,354.17 without overclaiming
1,412 awards is a moderately thick Defense file. Fewer rows than CA-50 or ME-01 pulls the implied mean up. Recipients remain unpublished. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $15,826,354.17) and the district share (82.1% of $27,235,358,479.78) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Georgia 11th District and Department of Defense if the live tables moved.
Do not rank Georgia 11th District (GA-11) as more Defense-dependent than neighboring districts on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 097 ties with different dollar totals, or no published 097 cell in this harvest. This snapshot holds $22,346,812,088.84 and 1,412 only. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.
Questions
- How much Defense spending is coded to Georgia 11th District (GA-11)?
- USAspending.gov lists $22,346,812,088.84 in Department of Defense obligations across 1,412 awards with place of performance in Georgia 11th District (GA-11). Agency 097 × GA-11 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Georgia’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 82.1% of the district’s published total ($27,235,358,479.78). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $15,826,354.17, a ratio of those two facts only.
- Does $22,346,812,088.84 include every Defense program in GA-11?
- The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split DoD components or contract versus assistance instruments. $22,346,812,088.84 is the combined obligation sum for agency 097 inside GA-11 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Defense and Georgia 11th District to inspect parent tables. 1,412 remains an action count, not a program count.
- Is $22,346,812,088.84 cash already paid in Georgia 11th District (GA-11)?
- No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $22,346,812,088.84 as checks already cleared in Georgia 11th District (GA-11) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 1,412 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
- Is Georgia 11th District (GA-11) ranked against other Georgia districts here?
- No. This page does not rank Georgia 11th District (GA-11) as a winner or loser. $22,346,812,088.84 and 1,412 describe one join. Neighboring districts have their own cells. District 90/98 placeholders are omitted. Cite Department of Defense and Georgia 11th District (GA-11) together without a league table.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.