Department of Defense obligations in Illinois 8th District (IL-08)

A thick Defense award file on Illinois 8th District geography

Illinois 8th District (IL-08) pairs a multi-billion Defense total with nearly seven thousand award rows. A thick file is a grain fact for agency 097, not a headcount of service members who live in the district. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $5,846,064,934.06 on 6,891 awards for awarding agency 097 with Illinois 8th District (IL-08) as place of performance. Treat the pair as a table intersection, not a ranking of districts as winners or losers, and not a claim that 6,891 awards equal 6,891 Defense contractors. A Department of Defense amount tagged to a different district is out of this cell.

VA, DHS, or Energy awards that mention defense in a description sit outside $5,846,064,934.06 unless those awards also carry agency 097 and IL-08 geography. Mixing those lines would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and base employment or procurement headcount is not causation. Those series are not in the packet. Place of performance as IL-08 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $5,846,064,934.06 in a district treasury. Illinois 12th District Defense in this slice is a different geography tag. Do not add IL-12 into IL-08.

6,891 DoD rows in IL-08

Six thousand eight hundred ninety-one DoD awards is thicker than the CA-27 file and thinner than PA-01. Thickness is not 6,891 contractors. Mean obligation is about $848,362.35 if $5,846,064,934.06 were divided evenly across 6,891 lines — a mechanical ratio, not a published typical award. Award count is a row count of USAspending awards, including possible modifications. The extract does not split Army, Navy, Air Force, or other components inside agency 097. Unique recipients are unpublished.

This page will not invent contractor or recipient names. Open Illinois 8th District for the stored district table and Department of Defense for the national agency shelf. Do not convert 6,891 into a map of installations, contractors, or service members inside Illinois 8th District. The $5,846,064,934.06 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on USAspending.gov rather than inferring an inventory.

IL-08 DoD dollars are obligations, not hardware already delivered

DoD obligations are commitments, not invoices already paid. DoD awards often obligate as contracts or assistance are recorded and draw as deliveries are billed. The $5,846,064,934.06 headline is the obligation sum on this district-agency join, not hardware already delivered or payroll already issued. Citing the figure as cash already sent confuses two USAspending concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. No fiscal year is attached to this packet; do not annualize $5,846,064,934.06 into a yearly run rate.

Keep the obligation word on $5,846,064,934.06. Keep both Department of Defense and Illinois 8th District (IL-08) in the citation. Campaign contributions recorded on FEC.gov do not fund this USAspending cell. Different datasets can share a state abbreviation without sharing a money trail.

Facts the IL-08 Defense join does not publish

The extract has no roster of installations, contractors, or service members. Facts remain $5,846,064,934.06, 6,891 awards, agency 097 (Department of Defense), Illinois 8th District (IL-08), and a district-wide book of $6,951,169,233.12. This page will not invent a contractor league table. Sibling district-agency joins are separate obligation totals, not a better or worse score.

Illinois 8th District places IL-08 among other congressional districts. Department of Defense places agency 097 among other awarding agencies. Illinois federal spending is the statewide shelf. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Mixing those shelves would invent a share of Illinois spending or of Department of Defense's national book the packet never computed. The $5,846,064,934.06 figure is the tagged pair only. Illinois 12th District Defense in this slice is a different geography tag. Do not add IL-12 into IL-08.

Citing Department of Defense in IL-08

A clean footnote names Department of Defense (agency 097), Illinois 8th District (IL-08), $5,846,064,934.06 in obligations, and 6,891 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not relabel 6,891 as a census of installations, contractors, or service members. Quote the district overlay if you need every awarding agency in IL-08, and quote the agency page if you need Department of Defense without a district filter. About 84.1% of the $6,951,169,233.12 district book sits on this agency in the extract; that percentage is a derived ratio, not a separate published table.

A ties page exists because two tables meet. One table is awarding agency 097. The other is congressional district place of performance as IL-08. The headline $5,846,064,934.06 is the obligation sum on that intersection. It is not a forecast, not a budget request, and not an outlay. It is also not a claim that Department of Defense caused Illinois 8th District's economy to grow, or that the district caused the awards to exist. If a later ingest moves the live overlay, prefer the overlay when the table and this snapshot diverge.

Questions

How much did DoD obligate in Illinois 8th District?

USAspending.gov shows $5,846,064,934.06 in obligations for Department of Defense (agency 097) with Illinois 8th District (IL-08) as place of performance, across 6,891 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district's entire defense or veterans budget. Other agencies in the district sit outside this join.

Do 6,891 awards mean 6,891 IL-08 Defense contractors?

No. Award count is a row count of USAspending awards and can include continuations. It is not a census of installations, contractors, or service members. The packet does not name recipients. Mean obligation of about $848,362.35 is a quotient, not a typical published award. See Illinois 8th District for stored lines.

Does this include Defense awards in Illinois 12th District?

No. The join is awarding agency 097 crossed with IL-08 place of performance. The district-wide book on this extract is $6,951,169,233.12. Related agencies and other districts are not inside $5,846,064,934.06 unless they also carry both keys. Illinois 12th District Defense in this slice is a different geography tag. Do not add IL-12 into IL-08.

Is the IL-08 DoD total already spent on payroll?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $5,846,064,934.06 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault's extract. Draws and remaining balances are not published in this packet. Remaining balances are not in the facts.