How much Department of Defense spending is coded to Massachusetts 6th District (MA-06)?

USAspending.gov lists $24,323,951,367.95 in Department of Defense obligations across 3,742 Massachusetts 6th District (MA-06)-coded awards (agency 097). That cell is 78.2% of the district's $31,096,066,122.58 all-agency total. It is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.

Is $24,323,951,367.95 all federal spending in MA-06?

No. $31,096,066,122.58 is Massachusetts 6th District (MA-06)'s all-agency obligation total in this packet. Department of Defense is 78.2% of that parent. Other awarding agencies remain on the district hub. Do not add the district parent into this Department of Defense cell.

Do 3,742 awards mean 3,742 unique contractors in MA-06?

No. 3,742 is an award-record count for Department of Defense in Massachusetts 6th District (MA-06), not unique vendors. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. This packet names no contractors or award recipients. Implied mean about $6.50 million is two facts divided.

Did FEC donations fund this Department of Defense total in MA-06?

No. $24,323,951,367.95 is a USAspending.gov obligation aggregate. FEC contribution tables are a different dataset and do not fund these awards. Outlays are unpublished. Cite Department of Defense and Massachusetts 6th District (MA-06) together as a place-of-performance join.

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Department of Defense in Massachusetts 6th District (MA-06)

Federal obligations of $24,323,951,367.95 sit on the USAspending cell that pairs Department of Defense (agency 097) with Massachusetts 6th District (MA-06). Award-record count 3,742. District-wide parent $31,096,066,122.58. 3,742 awards against $24,323,951,367.95 is a thick action file. Repeat awards and modifications add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Implied mean about $6.50 million is not a typical invoice. Massachusetts 6th District (MA-06) is a Defense (097) join. Massachusetts 7th District in this slice is Health and Human Services (075). Different districts and different agencies. Do not merge MA-06 Defense with MA-07 HHS. The join is not the MA-07 HHS cell, a named electronics-prime list, or Massachusetts statewide Defense.

Key figures

Department of Defense in Massachusetts 6th District (MA-06): $24,323,951,367.95 across 3,742 USAspending awards (agency 097).
That cell is 78.2% of the district's $31,096,066,122.58 all-agency total.
Implied mean about $6.50 million per record, not a typical award size.
Agency 097 × MA-06 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a vendor list.
FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell; source is USAspending.gov.

The relationship this MA-06 page exists to explain

Readers who open only Massachusetts 6th District see every awarding agency in Massachusetts 6th District (MA-06). Readers who open only Department of Defense see Department of Defense without a MA-06 filter. The tie page is the overlap: $24,323,951,367.95, 3,742 awards, agency 097, district MA-06.

Massachusetts 6th District (MA-06) is a Defense (097) join. Massachusetts 7th District in this slice is Health and Human Services (075). Different districts and different agencies. Do not merge MA-06 Defense with MA-07 HHS. 78.2% is arithmetic on $24,323,951,367.95 and $31,096,066,122.58. It is not a management grade and not a ranking of districts as winners or losers.

How the Department of Defense hub differs from this join

Department of Defense (/agencies/097/) is Department of Defense without a MA-06 filter. Adding that hub into $24,323,951,367.95 double-counts. The live agency page may refresh after harvest; prefer it when the table and this snapshot disagree.

3,742 awards against $24,323,951,367.95 is a thick action file. Repeat awards and modifications add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Implied mean about $6.50 million is not a typical invoice. Do not invent a fiscal year. The packet does not publish one on this join.

Reading the Massachusetts 6th District (MA-06) parent without this agency

Open /districts/MA-06/ to see Massachusetts 6th District (MA-06) without an Department of Defense filter. That parent is $31,096,066,122.58 in this packet. This tie is the Department of Defense column inside that parent. Do not add the parent into the column.

Downward adjustments stay possible

Amendments after harvest can move $24,323,951,367.95 or 3,742 or both. Cite USAspending.gov as the source system and prefer the live district overlay at /districts/MA-06/ when the table and this file disagree.

Caveats on 097 × MA-06

Caveat stack: not cash paid; not a vendor list; not a statewide Massachusetts Department of Defense total; not a nationwide Department of Defense total; not FEC. The positive claim is small: agency 097 in MA-06 shows $24,323,951,367.95 on 3,742 awards.

North-shore industry names are unpublished. Unique recipients are unpublished. Statewide Massachusetts federal spending is the mixed-agency parent. This tie is MA-06 × Defense only. That is the whole join.

USAspending.gov as the source system

USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency produced this pair. Dollar figures first: $24,323,951,367.95 on 3,742 awards, agency 097, district MA-06, district parent $31,096,066,122.58.

Massachusetts 6th District (MA-06) is a Defense (097) join. Massachusetts 7th District in this slice is Health and Human Services (075). Different districts and different agencies. Do not merge MA-06 Defense with MA-07 HHS. Quote the live overlay if later ingests moved the totals after harvest. Obligations of $24,323,951,367.95 are not outlays.

Read the four internal links as parents, not as extra dollars. Massachusetts 6th District is the district overlay. Department of Defense is the agency overlay. Massachusetts federal spending is the state mix. All spending ties is the two-key index. None of those pages should be added into $24,323,951,367.95. The harvested cell is already the overlap.

A researcher quoting this join in one sentence can use: Department of Defense, agency 097, Massachusetts 6th District (MA-06), obligations $24,323,951,367.95, award records 3,742, district parent $31,096,066,122.58 (78.2% in this cell). That sentence uses only packet facts. It still names no contractors, no outlays, and no FEC receipts.

Questions

How much Department of Defense spending is coded to Massachusetts 6th District (MA-06)?: USAspending.gov lists $24,323,951,367.95 in Department of Defense obligations across 3,742 Massachusetts 6th District (MA-06)-coded awards (agency 097). That cell is 78.2% of the district's $31,096,066,122.58 all-agency total. It is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
Is $24,323,951,367.95 all federal spending in MA-06?: No. $31,096,066,122.58 is Massachusetts 6th District (MA-06)'s all-agency obligation total in this packet. Department of Defense is 78.2% of that parent. Other awarding agencies remain on the district hub. Do not add the district parent into this Department of Defense cell.
Do 3,742 awards mean 3,742 unique contractors in MA-06?: No. 3,742 is an award-record count for Department of Defense in Massachusetts 6th District (MA-06), not unique vendors. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. This packet names no contractors or award recipients. Implied mean about $6.50 million is two facts divided.
Did FEC donations fund this Department of Defense total in MA-06?: No. $24,323,951,367.95 is a USAspending.gov obligation aggregate. FEC contribution tables are a different dataset and do not fund these awards. Outlays are unpublished. Cite Department of Defense and Massachusetts 6th District (MA-06) together as a place-of-performance join.

USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.