Department of Defense obligations in Georgia

Defense awards tagged to Georgia

The pair is agency 097 and place-of-performance GA. $38,594,598,819.49 is the obligation sum. 139,845 is the award count. The page exists to name both sides. Naming only Georgia would describe every awarding agency; naming only Defense would describe every state.

About $276,000 per award is the ratio. High-count files pull means down. A few large contracts can still sit inside $38,594,598,819.49. The join does not publish the mix.

139,845 award records and $38,594,598,819.49 are the only two published facts that define this pair. Subtracting either key changes the number. The mean is arithmetic on those two facts. Readers who need a distribution have to leave this narrative for the overlay table.

Agency 097 as a filter

Department of Defense is the label on 097. The agency hub without Georgia will not equal $38,594,598,819.49. The Georgia hub without 097 includes civilian agencies. Overlay /states/ga/agencies/097/ is the both-keys table for 139,845 awards.

Parent hubs are supposed to be larger. If they matched $38,594,598,819.49 and 139,845, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Use the parents when one key should drop.

Georgia is not the Southeast

Place of performance GA excludes Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Defense awards coded to those states are outside $38,594,598,819.49. Place of performance is not contractor headquarters and not a named-base list.

The Georgia federal spending hub shows 097 next to other awarding agencies that also use GA. Adjacency is not a supply chain.

Geography here is the place-of-performance state on the award, not a metro name, not a commuting zone, and not a list of neighboring states. $38,594,598,819.49 does not grow because a region “feels” connected. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Record counts and missing years

Award count 139,845 is records, not unique vendors and not payments. The obligation sum is $38,594,598,819.49. Outlays are unpublished. No year is in the packet, so none is cited.

Modifications can rest on one ID or appear as additional records. Either way, the harvested aggregate is the figure this page cites.

Causation leftover

The join does not prove Georgia’s economy is Defense-driven. It does not connect USAspending to FEC filings. See Department of Defense in Georgia, Georgia federal spending, Department of Defense, and All spending ties.

How to read this pair next to the hubs

Georgia’s Defense pair is $38,594,598,819.49 on 139,845 awards. The about-$276,000 mean is a high-count signature, not a named-base budget.

Four links keep the pair honest: Department of Defense in Georgia, Georgia federal spending, Department of Defense, and All spending ties. $38,594,598,819.49 lives on the first. The others are context, not substitutes. 139,845 remains an award-record count.

USAspending’s obligation field can be modified after the fact. Outlays can lag or never match. No year is supplied here. $38,594,598,819.49 should not be labeled cash-on-hand. Geography is one state tag, not a region.

This file is prose around a packet. It is not a substitute for row-level research. It does not merge campaign finance into federal awards. It reports $38,594,598,819.49 on 139,845 awards for this intersection only.

Award records are not a census of people and not a census of places. 139,845 can rise because one recipient has many instruments, because modifications were stored as new rows, or because small actions are common in this awarding agency’s reporting. $38,594,598,819.49 can be dominated by a few rows even when 139,845 is large, or by those same few rows when 139,845 is small. Without a distribution, this page will not pretend to know which pattern holds. It will keep repeating the two facts and the two keys. Place of performance still does not mean every dollar was disbursed locally. Obligations still do not mean outlays.

Readers who arrived from a search for a program name, a base, a clinic, or a highway will not find those nouns in the facts. Adding them would be atmosphere. $38,594,598,819.49 is an awarding-agency code crossed with a place-of-performance state. 139,845 is how many award records survive that cross. If a program-level or site-level question still needs answering, it needs a different table than this aggregate. This narrative will not fill the gap with guesses. It will send the reader to Department of Defense in Georgia for rows and to the parent hubs for wider totals.

Questions

How much has DoD obligated in Georgia?

USAspending records $38,594,598,819.49 in obligations for agency 097 with Georgia place of performance, on 139,845 awards. That is an obligation join, not an outlay total. The pair is awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) and place-of-performance Georgia. It is not Department of Defense nationwide and not Georgia from every awarding agency.

What is the average award?

About $276,000 ($38,594,598,819.49 ÷ 139,845). A high award count pulls the mean down. The mean is not a typical prime contract. That ratio uses only $38,594,598,819.49 and 139,845 from the packet. A mean hides mix: a few large instruments can sit beside many smaller ones.

Does this include Florida or Alabama?

No. Place of performance is Georgia only. Other states are outside $38,594,598,819.49 and outside the 139,845 awards. Only place-of-performance Georgia plus awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) enter $38,594,598,819.49. Adjacent state codes are other filters, if they exist as ties at all.

Does the total list military bases?

No. The facts are agency 097 and state GA. Installation names are not in the aggregate. The $38,594,598,819.49 total follows those two fields. The facts are agency 097 and place-of-performance Georgia totaling $38,594,598,819.49 on 139,845 awards. Program names, sites, and mission splits are not in this aggregate and are not assigned shares of $38,594,598,819.49.