Department of Defense federal obligations in Louisiana

Defense work tagged to Louisiana

This page reports awarding agency 097 paired with Louisiana (LA) place of performance. The $17,733,648,480.56 total is the USAspending aggregate for that pair. Louisiana’s all-agency hub is broader; the national Defense hub is broader in the other direction. This cell is the overlap only.

Fifty-three thousand three hundred eighty-six awards is a mid-to-high Defense row count. The facts do not classify those rows as shipbuilding, aviation, or installation support. Inferring a single yard or fort from the state tag would overfit the aggregate.

Louisiana’s 53,386 Defense records under $17,733,648,480.56 produce a mean near $332,178. Shipyard talk will try to turn that mean into a hull price. A hull price is a unit this aggregate does not have. If a large construction action is in the mix, it pulls the mean; if thousands of small supply actions dominate, they pull it the other way. The file does not say which.

Agency 097 as the Defense parent

Code 097 is the Department of Defense. Military departments and defense agencies can sit underneath it in the source. This packet does not split them. The overlay /states/la/agencies/097/ is the table for the same pair.

A national Defense page will show other states. $17,733,648,480.56 is Louisiana’s tagged share, not the department’s worldwide obligation book. 53,386 is not a headcount of service members or shipyard workers in Louisiana.

Louisiana as geography

Louisiana is state code LA. Place of performance can follow work, a recipient address, or a reporting convention. Awards coded to Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, or elsewhere stay outside this $17,733,648,480.56 sum even when the Gulf Coast supply chain crosses those lines. The join cannot reconstruct those chains.

Statewide Louisiana federal spending includes HHS, Agriculture, and other awarding agencies. Defense is one column. Comparing this cell to those columns compares filters, not which department “matters more” to Louisiana residents.

What $332,178 per award is saying

Mean obligation of about $332,178 sits between high-count Defense cells with tiny averages and sparse Energy cells with huge averages. It is still a mean, not a median, and not a typical hull price. A few large ship actions, if present, would pull the mean up; thousands of small supply buys would pull it down. The aggregate does not say which mix Louisiana has.

Award counts can include modifications. 53,386 is not 53,386 unique vendors. Net obligations can include downward adjustments.

Limits of the Defense–Louisiana join

Place-of-performance overlap does not mean Louisiana campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. The page does not rank Louisiana as more militarized than neighbors. It reports one USAspending cell.

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

How to read the Louisiana–Defense numbers

Louisiana Defense ($17,733,648,480.56, 53,386 awards) invites shipyard narration. Shipyard names are not in the packet. The documented pair is 097 and LA. A hull that is built in Louisiana enters this cell only if the award’s geography field says LA — a condition this page cannot check row by row. Fifty-three thousand three hundred eighty-six rows produce a mean near $332,178. That mean can hide a bimodal mix of small supply actions and a few large construction or ship actions. Without a distribution, do not treat $332,178 as a typical Louisiana Defense invoice.

Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas are the land borders; the Gulf is not a state code. New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and the rest of the state share LA. Awards tagged TX or MS are absent from $17,733,648,480.56.

Questions

How much Defense spending is obligated in Louisiana?

USAspending records $17,733,648,480.56 in obligations for awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) with Louisiana place of performance, covering 53,386 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for this pair, not an outlay total and not the national Defense figure.

Is this a specific Louisiana shipyard’s budget?

The facts do not name shipyards or forts. The filter is agency 097 plus LA place of performance. $17,733,648,480.56 and 53,386 awards cover whatever records carry both tags.

What is the average DoD award in Louisiana?

Dividing $17,733,648,480.56 by 53,386 awards produces about $332,178 per award. That mean mixes whatever award types sit in the table; it is not a median contract value.

Does this include National Guard activity in Louisiana?

Anything coded to awarding agency 097 with Louisiana place of performance is in the total. The packet does not split Guard, active-duty, or civilian Defense awarding offices.