Department of Defense federal obligations in Illinois

A high-count Defense cell, not a single base budget

This tie reports the intersection of awarding agency 097 and Illinois as place-of-performance state. The $27,070,317,743.87 figure sums obligations on awards that carry both attributes. Illinois statewide spending includes every agency; the Department of Defense national profile includes every state. Neither parent equals this cell.

Eight hundred eighty-seven thousand eight hundred thirty awards is an unusually large row count relative to many other state–agency pairs on this site. That volume usually signals lots of smaller procurement actions, modifications, or delivery orders rather than a handful of mega-grants. The packet does not classify those rows. It does not identify a particular installation, contractor, or weapon system.

Agency 097 as the Defense filter

The awarding-agency code here is 097. Military departments, defense agencies, and related awarding offices can roll up under that parent in USAspending. This narrative does not split Army, Navy, Air Force, or other components because those splits are not in the facts. The overlay path /states/il/agencies/097/ is the table view of the same pair.

A national Department of Defense page will show a larger dollar total and a different award mix. Using $27,070,317,743.87 as if it were the entire Defense budget would collapse the Illinois filter. Using 887,830 as if it were the number of Illinois defense employees would collapse the award-record definition.

Illinois geography in the spending file

Illinois is the USAspending state code IL. Place of performance can mean work in-state, a recipient address, or a coding convention that lists IL even when some activity occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to Missouri, Indiana, Wisconsin, or Iowa do not enter this $27,070,317,743.87 sum. The join cannot tell you which of those neighboring tags would have been a closer operational description.

The Illinois federal-spending hub is the parent geography. Defense is one awarding agency among many there. Readers comparing this cell to Social Security or Health and Human Services slices for the same state are comparing different agency filters, not ranking which department “matters more” to Illinois residents.

What a $30,491 average is saying

Mean obligation is about $30,491 ($27,070,317,743.87 ÷ 887,830). That is two orders of magnitude smaller than several HHS or Energy cells with similar total dollars and far fewer awards. The contrast is table geometry: Illinois–097 looks like a high-volume contracting book, not a 1,000-row assistance book. It is still a mean, not a median, and not a typical unit price.

USAspending award counts can include modifications and multiple actions on related vehicles. 887,830 is not 887,830 unique vendors and not 887,830 completed projects. Without a transaction listing on this page, the count is a size of the aggregate, not a headcount of Illinois factories.

Limits of the Defense–Illinois join

A large Defense obligation total in Illinois does not mean campaign contributions from Illinois funded these awards, and it does not mean outlays equal $27,070,317,743.87. Place-of-performance tagging is not the same as economic-impact modeling. The page reports the USAspending state–agency cell only.

Continue from Department of Defense in Illinois for the overlay, Illinois federal spending for all agencies, Department of Defense for agency 097 nationally, and All spending ties for other pairs.

How to read the Illinois–Defense numbers

Illinois Defense dollars of $27,070,317,743.87 look familiar next to other large state–agency cells; the 887,830 award records do not. That mismatch is the reason to read the pair as a join rather than as “Illinois’s Pentagon budget.” A budget speech and a USAspending aggregate answer different questions. This page answers only the second. Procurement shops generate modifications, delivery orders, and blanket-purchase calls that each increment the award count. If even a fraction of the 887,830 rows are those incremental actions, the unique-vendor count is far smaller. The packet does not say what fraction. Until a transaction extract is in hand, treat 887,830 as a row census, not a plant census.

Chicago, Rock Island, and downstate Illinois share the same IL tag. The $27,070,317,743.87 sum does not say how much landed in each. Splitting the cell by metro would require fields this aggregate does not carry. Neighboring Missouri or Indiana tags are equally invisible here even when a supply chain crosses the Mississippi.

Questions

How much Defense spending is obligated in Illinois?

USAspending records $27,070,317,743.87 in obligations for awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) with Illinois place of performance, covering 887,830 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for this pair, not an outlay total and not the national Defense figure.

Why does Illinois show 887,830 Defense awards?

The 887,830 figure is the award-record count in the USAspending aggregate for agency 097 and IL place of performance. High counts often reflect many smaller actions. The packet does not list vendors, bases, or contract vehicles.

What is the average DoD award in Illinois?

Dividing $27,070,317,743.87 by 887,830 awards produces about $30,491 per award. That mean mixes whatever award types sit in the table; it is not a median contract value.

Does this include National Guard or only Pentagon contracts?

The filter is awarding agency 097. The facts do not split components, Guard activity, or civil works. Anything coded to 097 with IL place of performance is in the $27,070,317,743.87 total; anything coded elsewhere is not.