Department of Defense federal obligations in Maryland

Defense awards that carry a Maryland tag

Filter the award file to Department of Defense as awarding agency. Filter again to Maryland place-of-performance. The remainder is $124,991,396,664.06 and 140,507 records. A Navy award coded to Virginia is out. An Agriculture award coded to Maryland is out. The join does not add those leftovers back in.

One hundred forty thousand five hundred seven actions is a busy file. Contracts, modifications, and other award types can all sit in that count. This packet does not break the 140,507 rows by instrument. Do not assume they are all weapons buys. Do not assume they are all headquarters leases.

Dollars divided by records is about $889,600 per award. That mean is pulled around by a mix of large vehicles and a long tail of smaller actions. It is not a unit cost for a platform, and this page will not invent one. The 140,507-award count is the activity side of the Maryland Defense join; $124,991,396,664.06 is the dollar side. They move independently. A year of modifications can thicken the file while the dollar column barely budges. Cite both. Department of Defense in Maryland is the overlay that will show the next ingest.

What the Maryland Defense cell does not prove

Proximity to Washington, D.C., is not a field in this packet. Neither is a named installation. $124,991,396,664.06 is the obligation sum for agency 097 inside MD coding. Treating the sum as a score of Pentagon preference is causation language this join does not support.

Maryland’s full federal extract includes civilian agencies. The Department of Defense national extract includes other states. Department of Defense in Maryland is only the overlap. All spending ties holds the rest of the overlap series. Classified annexes beyond the public award file are not added here. If a program is missing from the 140,507 rows, it may be absent from USAspending.gov rather than zero. Procurement codes, NAICS, and product-service codes are unpublished here. A reader who wants “how much was aircraft versus professional services” needs another extract. This page will not guess a mix from the 140,507-row total. Maryland federal spending still folds in civilian agencies that are not 097.

Obligations on a thick Defense file

Each of the 140,507 records can carry an obligation amount that has not yet fully outlaid. $124,991,396,664.06 is a commitment total. Matching it to a DoD Comptroller outlay table will disagree by design when timing differs.

Maryland’s state budget is a different ledger. Annapolis documents are not the source of agency 097’s 140,507 awards. Mixing them with $124,991,396,664.06 leaves the USAspending.gov series.

Place-of-performance along the Maryland tag

MD is statewide in this packet. A single contractor address can dominate dollars while many small actions inflate the 140,507 count. County and installation maps need fields this packet does not include.

Use Maryland federal spending for the all-agency state hub and Department of Defense for CGAC 097 without a Maryland filter. Those pages share the obligation definition and still are not this join.

Citing DoD in Maryland

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Defense (097) obligated $124,991,396,664.06 on 140,507 awards coded to Maryland. Keep both nouns. Keep the obligation word.

The overlay Department of Defense in Maryland updates when the extract refreshes. Quote it if this snapshot and the overlay diverge.

Reusing the Maryland Defense integers

Keep Department of Defense, Maryland, $124,991,396,664.06, and 140,507 awards in the same citation. Agency 097 without Maryland is the national Defense hub. Maryland without 097 is the statewide federal book. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Mixing those three pages into one number is a join error.

Do not rank Maryland as more militarized because 140,507 is a large count. Rankings of militarization are not packet facts. Do not divide $124,991,396,664.06 by an invented population or by an invented installation count. Those denominators are not here. Classified annexes beyond USAspending.gov are not restored. If a program is missing from the 140,507 rows, it may be absent from the public award file rather than zero. Obligations remain obligations: $124,991,396,664.06 is not an outlay.

Questions

How much Defense spending is in Maryland on USAspending?

Department of Defense awarding-agency records sum to $124,991,396,664.06 across 140,507 Maryland-coded awards. That is the 097 × MD join from USAspending.gov, not an outlay total and not Maryland’s full federal book. USAspending.gov is the originating system. Department of Defense in Maryland is the live overlay for this pair. $124,991,396,664.06 remains an obligation sum, not an outlay, across 140,507 awards.

Are the 140,507 awards all contracts for weapons?

The packet gives only an award count of 140,507 and an obligation sum of $124,991,396,664.06. It does not classify those rows by product or service. Modifications and non-weapon actions can sit in the same count. This packet publishes only the Department of Defense (agency 097) join inside Maryland coding. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote $124,991,396,664.06 and 140,507 together.

Does this prove Maryland receives more Pentagon money because of its location?

No. The join is agency 097 plus MD geography. Location narratives are not packet facts. Correlation of a state tag with a Defense total is not causation. SpendingVault indexes the pair; it does not convert $124,991,396,664.06 into cash already paid. Later ingests can revise 140,507 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where do I read the live Maryland Defense table?

Department of Defense in Maryland is the overlay. Maryland federal spending and Department of Defense are the parent hubs. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Maryland federal spending and Department of Defense are parent hubs, not addends. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $124,991,396,664.06. Obligations are not outlays.