Department of Defense in Kentucky 6th District (KY-06)
USAspending.gov tags $7,772,716,640.92 to Department of Defense inside Kentucky 6th District (KY-06) — 1,593 award records, not outlays. One thousand five hundred ninety-three Defense-coded awards equal about fifty-two percent of KY-06's district obligation total, a Kentucky Defense cell that is not another state's 6th district. That pair is Department of Defense and Kentucky 6th District (KY-06) — not Kentucky's entire federal inflow, not Department of Defense nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 52.4% of this district's published obligation total ($14,833,100,577.59). Implied average obligation is about $4,879,294.82 ($7,772,716,640.92 ÷ 1,593). Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- Defense in Kentucky 6th District (KY-06): $7,772,716,640.92 across 1,593 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $4,879,294.82 per record; district share 52.4% of $14,833,100,577.59.
- Agency 097 × KY-06 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote Kentucky 6th District and Department of Defense if live tables moved.
- Kentucky federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $7,772,716,640.92.
Defense obligations coded to Kentucky 6th District (KY-06)
Awarding agency 097 and congressional district KY-06 meet here. $7,772,716,640.92 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 Kentucky 6th District (KY-06), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments. 1,593 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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 $7,772,716,640.92 by 1,593 yields about $4,879,294.82 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 1,593 awards is a moderate Defense file. The implied mean is a concentration statistic, not a typical award. Do not treat KY-06's 097 cell as a synonym for every Defense account nationwide. Open Kentucky 6th District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Defense for agency 097 without a KY-06 filter, Kentucky federal spending for every awarding agency in the Kentucky extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $7,772,716,640.92.
What Defense contributes to this pair
USAspending labels awarding agency 097 as Department of Defense. That code produced $7,772,716,640.92 when crossed with Kentucky 6th District (KY-06) place of performance. The agency-wide 097 hub does not require KY-06 geography. The district hub does not require Defense. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 1,593 awards. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments.
Correlation is not causation: Kentucky 6th District (KY-06) did not cause $7,772,716,640.92 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 097 × KY-06 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 Kentucky statewide totals
Kentucky 6th District (KY-06) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list KY-06 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Kentucky districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 097. Kentucky 6th District (KY-06) is a numbered place-of-performance code inside Kentucky. Another state's 6th district is a different join even with agency 097.
Kentucky federal spending shows how agency 097 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $7,772,716,640.92 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Kentucky 6th District (KY-06) 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 $14,833,100,577.59; $7,772,716,640.92 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. $7,772,716,640.92 is that kind of sum for Department of Defense inside KY-06 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 $7,772,716,640.92 as given.
Kentucky's own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 1,593-row Defense cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 1,593 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 ($4,879,294.82) is a concentration statistic, not a typical KY-06 Defense payment.
Live tables versus this snapshot
Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Defense (agency 097) obligated $7,772,716,640.92 on 1,593 awards coded to Kentucky 6th District (KY-06). Name Department of Defense and Kentucky 6th District (KY-06) together. Keep the obligation word. If Kentucky 6th 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. 52.4% of $14,833,100,577.59 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.
Keep Department of Defense, Kentucky 6th District (KY-06), $7,772,716,640.92, and 1,593 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Defense is the 097 parent without a KY-06 filter. Kentucky federal spending is the Kentucky 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
1,593 awards is a moderate Defense file. The implied mean is a concentration statistic, not a typical award. Keep Department of Defense and Kentucky 6th District on the same citation. Do not import other states' Defense dollars into KY-06. 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 $4,879,294.82) and the district share (52.4% of $14,833,100,577.59) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Kentucky 6th District and Department of Defense if the live tables moved.
Do not rank Kentucky 6th District (KY-06) 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 $7,772,716,640.92 and 1,593 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 Kentucky 6th District (KY-06)?
- USAspending.gov lists $7,772,716,640.92 in Department of Defense obligations across 1,593 awards with place of performance in Kentucky 6th District (KY-06). Agency 097 × KY-06 is an obligation join, not an outlay. The cell is 52.4% of the district total ($14,833,100,577.59). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $4,879,294.82, a ratio only.
- Does $7,772,716,640.92 include every Defense program in KY-06?
- The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments. $7,772,716,640.92 is the combined obligation sum for agency 097 inside KY-06. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Defense and Kentucky 6th District for parent tables. 1,593 remains an action count, not a program count.
- Is $7,772,716,640.92 cash already paid in Kentucky 6th District (KY-06)?
- No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays are a different concept and are not this packet's headline. Treating $7,772,716,640.92 as checks already cleared in Kentucky 6th District (KY-06) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 1,593 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
- What share of KY-06 obligations is agency 097?
- Agency 097 accounts for 52.4% of $14,833,100,577.59 in district-wide obligations on this packet. That share is $7,772,716,640.92 ÷ $14,833,100,577.59. It is not a ranking of Kentucky districts and not an outlay share. Other awarding agencies occupy the remaining district total.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.