Department of Defense in Maryland 1st District (MD-01)
USAspending.gov tags $10,297,103,018.25 to Department of Defense inside Maryland 1st District (MD-01) — 3,511 award records, not outlays. Three thousand five hundred eleven Defense-coded awards cover about fifty-five percent of MD-01's district obligation total, a Maryland Defense geography distinct from MD-02, MD-06, and MD-08. That pair is Department of Defense and Maryland 1st District (MD-01) — not Maryland's entire federal inflow, not Department of Defense nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 54.8% of this district's published obligation total ($18,793,237,545.99). Implied average obligation is about $2,932,812.02 ($10,297,103,018.25 ÷ 3,511). Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- Defense in Maryland 1st District (MD-01): $10,297,103,018.25 across 3,511 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $2,932,812.02 per record; district share 54.8% of $18,793,237,545.99.
- Agency 097 × MD-01 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote Maryland 1st District and Department of Defense if live tables moved.
- Maryland federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $10,297,103,018.25.
Defense obligations coded to Maryland 1st District (MD-01)
Awarding agency 097 and congressional district MD-01 meet here. $10,297,103,018.25 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 Maryland 1st District (MD-01), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments. 3,511 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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 $10,297,103,018.25 by 3,511 yields about $2,932,812.02 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 3,511 awards is a moderate Defense file. Program and military-department splits remain unpublished. Do not treat MD-01's 097 cell as a synonym for every Defense account nationwide. Open Maryland 1st District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Defense for agency 097 without a MD-01 filter, Maryland federal spending for every awarding agency in the Maryland extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $10,297,103,018.25.
What Defense contributes to this pair
USAspending labels awarding agency 097 as Department of Defense. That code produced $10,297,103,018.25 when crossed with Maryland 1st District (MD-01) place of performance. The agency-wide 097 hub does not require MD-01 geography. The district hub does not require Defense. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 3,511 awards. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments.
Correlation is not causation: Maryland 1st District (MD-01) did not cause $10,297,103,018.25 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 097 × MD-01 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 Maryland statewide totals
Maryland 1st District (MD-01) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list MD-01 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Maryland districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 097. Maryland 1st District (MD-01) is a numbered USAspending geography inside Maryland. Other Maryland districts can host Defense with different shares because their denominators differ.
Maryland federal spending shows how agency 097 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $10,297,103,018.25 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Maryland 1st District (MD-01) 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 $18,793,237,545.99; $10,297,103,018.25 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. $10,297,103,018.25 is that kind of sum for Department of Defense inside MD-01 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 $10,297,103,018.25 as given.
Maryland's own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 3,511-row Defense cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 3,511 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 ($2,932,812.02) is a concentration statistic, not a typical MD-01 Defense payment.
Live tables versus this snapshot
Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Defense (agency 097) obligated $10,297,103,018.25 on 3,511 awards coded to Maryland 1st District (MD-01). Name Department of Defense and Maryland 1st District (MD-01) together. Keep the obligation word. If Maryland 1st 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. 54.8% of $18,793,237,545.99 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.
Keep Department of Defense, Maryland 1st District (MD-01), $10,297,103,018.25, and 3,511 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Defense is the 097 parent without a MD-01 filter. Maryland federal spending is the Maryland 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
3,511 awards is a moderate Defense file. Program and military-department splits remain unpublished. Cite Department of Defense and Maryland 1st District together. Do not import other Maryland Defense dollars into MD-01. 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 $2,932,812.02) and the district share (54.8% of $18,793,237,545.99) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Maryland 1st District and Department of Defense if the live tables moved.
Do not rank Maryland 1st District (MD-01) 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 $10,297,103,018.25 and 3,511 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 Maryland 1st District (MD-01)?
- USAspending.gov lists $10,297,103,018.25 in Department of Defense obligations across 3,511 awards with place of performance in Maryland 1st District (MD-01). Agency 097 × MD-01 is an obligation join, not an outlay. The cell is 54.8% of the district total ($18,793,237,545.99). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $2,932,812.02, a ratio only.
- Does $10,297,103,018.25 include every Defense program in MD-01?
- The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments. $10,297,103,018.25 is the combined obligation sum for agency 097 inside MD-01. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Defense and Maryland 1st District for parent tables. 3,511 remains an action count, not a program count.
- Is $10,297,103,018.25 cash already paid in Maryland 1st District (MD-01)?
- No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays are a different concept and are not this packet's headline. Treating $10,297,103,018.25 as checks already cleared in Maryland 1st District (MD-01) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 3,511 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
- What share of MD-01 obligations is agency 097?
- Agency 097 accounts for 54.8% of $18,793,237,545.99 in district-wide obligations on this packet. That share is $10,297,103,018.25 ÷ $18,793,237,545.99. It is not a ranking of Maryland 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.