Department of Defense in Iowa 2nd District (IA-02)

Defense obligations coded to Iowa 2nd District (IA-02)

Awarding agency 097 and congressional district IA-02 meet here. $7,032,978,882.26 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 Iowa 2nd District (IA-02), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments. 1,566 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. This cell is not an installation map, a platform catalog, or a named-contractor file.

Dividing $7,032,978,882.26 by 1,566 yields about $4,491,046.54 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 1,566 awards is a moderate Defense file. The implied mean is not a typical invoice and not a jobs figure. Do not treat IA-02's 097 cell as a synonym for every Defense account nationwide. Open Iowa 2nd District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Defense for agency 097 without a IA-02 filter, Iowa federal spending for every awarding agency in the Iowa extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $7,032,978,882.26.

What Defense contributes to this pair

USAspending labels awarding agency 097 as Department of Defense. That code produced $7,032,978,882.26 when crossed with Iowa 2nd District (IA-02) place of performance. The agency-wide 097 hub does not require IA-02 geography. The district hub does not require Defense. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 1,566 awards. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Iowa 2nd District (IA-02) did not cause $7,032,978,882.26 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 097 × IA-02 only. This cell is not an installation map, a platform catalog, 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.

District geography versus Iowa statewide totals

Iowa 2nd District (IA-02) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list IA-02 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Iowa districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 097. Iowa 2nd District (IA-02) is a numbered place-of-performance code inside Iowa. Other Iowa districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 097.

Iowa federal spending shows how agency 097 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $7,032,978,882.26 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Iowa 2nd District (IA-02) by county, city, or census tract. Awards that carry a different awarding-agency code stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to Department of Defense. The district-wide obligation total published here is $13,515,948,904.06; $7,032,978,882.26 is the Defense slice of that denominator.

Why this is not an outlay register

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $7,032,978,882.26 is that kind of sum for Department of Defense inside IA-02 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 $7,032,978,882.26 as given.

Iowa's own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 1,566-row Defense cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 1,566 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 ($4,491,046.54) is a concentration statistic, not a typical IA-02 Defense payment.

Live tables versus this snapshot

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Defense (agency 097) obligated $7,032,978,882.26 on 1,566 awards coded to Iowa 2nd District (IA-02). Name Department of Defense and Iowa 2nd District (IA-02) together. Keep the obligation word. If Iowa 2nd District or Department of Defense has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not an installation map, a platform catalog, or a named-contractor file. 52.0% of $13,515,948,904.06 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Keep Department of Defense, Iowa 2nd District (IA-02), $7,032,978,882.26, and 1,566 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Defense is the 097 parent without a IA-02 filter. Iowa federal spending is the Iowa parent. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a district with Defense does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending join.

What this packet refuses to infer

1,566 awards is a moderate Defense file. The implied mean is not a typical invoice and not a jobs figure. Cite Department of Defense and Iowa 2nd District together. FEC contribution tables do not fund this USAspending cell. 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 $4,491,046.54) and the district share (52.0% of $13,515,948,904.06) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Iowa 2nd District and Department of Defense if the live tables moved.

Do not rank Iowa 2nd District (IA-02) 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 $7,032,978,882.26 and 1,566 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 Iowa 2nd District (IA-02)?

USAspending.gov lists $7,032,978,882.26 in Department of Defense obligations across 1,566 awards with place of performance in Iowa 2nd District (IA-02). Agency 097 × IA-02 is an obligation join, not an outlay. The cell is 52.0% of the district total ($13,515,948,904.06). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $4,491,046.54, a ratio only.

Does $7,032,978,882.26 include every Defense program in IA-02?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments. $7,032,978,882.26 is the combined obligation sum for agency 097 inside IA-02. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Defense and Iowa 2nd District for parent tables. 1,566 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $7,032,978,882.26 cash already paid in Iowa 2nd District (IA-02)?

No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays are a different concept and are not this packet's headline. Treating $7,032,978,882.26 as checks already cleared in Iowa 2nd District (IA-02) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 1,566 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

What share of IA-02 obligations is agency 097?

Agency 097 accounts for 52.0% of $13,515,948,904.06 in district-wide obligations on this packet. That share is $7,032,978,882.26 ÷ $13,515,948,904.06. It is not a ranking of Iowa districts and not an outlay share. Other awarding agencies occupy the remaining district total.