Department of Defense obligations in Maryland 3rd District (MD-03)

The Maryland 3rd District (MD-03) filter on Defense

Awarding agency 097 and congressional district MD-03 meet here. $16,910,546,821.90 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 3rd District (MD-03), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split DoD components or contract versus assistance instruments. 3,343 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a base census, a weapons inventory, or a named-contractor file.

Dividing $16,910,546,821.90 by 3,343 yields about $5,058,494.41 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 3,343 awards is a thick Defense file. The implied mean is a concentration statistic, not a typical contract. Named contractors are unpublished. Do not treat MD-03’s 097 cell as a synonym for every Defense account nationwide. Open Maryland 3rd District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Defense for agency 097 without the MD-03 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 $16,910,546,821.90.

The Department of Defense awarding-agency rollup

USAspending labels awarding agency 097 as Department of Defense. That code produced $16,910,546,821.90 when crossed with Maryland 3rd District (MD-03) place of performance. The agency-wide 097 hub does not require MD-03 geography. The district hub does not require Defense. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 3,343 awards. The packet does not split DoD components or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Maryland 3rd District (MD-03) did not “cause” $16,910,546,821.90 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 097 × MD-03 only. It is not a base census, a weapons inventory, 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.

Reading the MD-03 stamp

Maryland 3rd District (MD-03) 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-03 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Maryland districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 097. Maryland 3rd District (MD-03) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Maryland. Other Maryland districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 097. Maryland 3rd District (MD-03) is a numbered place-of-performance geography inside Maryland. Other Maryland districts are not this join. The packet does not name installations.

Maryland federal spending shows how agency 097 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $16,910,546,821.90 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Maryland 3rd District (MD-03) 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 $31,356,776,634.33; $16,910,546,821.90 is the Defense slice of that denominator.

USAspending obligations on this pair

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $16,910,546,821.90 is that kind of sum for Department of Defense inside MD-03 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 $16,910,546,821.90 as given.

Maryland’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 3,343-row Defense cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 3,343 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 ($5,058,494.41) is a concentration statistic, not a typical MD-03 Defense payment.

Citing $16,910,546,821.90 without dropping a join side

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Defense (agency 097) obligated $16,910,546,821.90 on 3,343 awards coded to Maryland 3rd District (MD-03). Name Department of Defense and Maryland 3rd District (MD-03) together. Keep the obligation word. If Maryland 3rd District or Department of Defense has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a base census, a weapons inventory, or a named-contractor file. 53.9% of $31,356,776,634.33 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Row count versus dollar concentration

3,343 awards is a thick Defense file. The implied mean is a concentration statistic, not a typical contract. Named contractors are unpublished. 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 $5,058,494.41) and the district share (53.9% of $31,356,776,634.33) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Maryland 3rd District and Department of Defense if the live tables moved.

Questions

How much Defense spending is coded to Maryland 3rd District (MD-03)?

USAspending.gov lists $16,910,546,821.90 in Department of Defense obligations across 3,343 awards with place of performance in Maryland 3rd District (MD-03). Agency 097 × MD-03 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Maryland’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 53.9% of the district’s published total ($31,356,776,634.33). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $5,058,494.41, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does $16,910,546,821.90 include every Defense program in MD-03?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split DoD components or contract versus assistance instruments. $16,910,546,821.90 is the combined obligation sum for agency 097 inside MD-03 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Defense and Maryland 3rd District to inspect parent tables. 3,343 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $16,910,546,821.90 cash already paid in Maryland 3rd District (MD-03)?

No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $16,910,546,821.90 as checks already cleared in Maryland 3rd District (MD-03) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 3,343 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

Why is the implied average $5,058,494.41 not a typical award?

The average is $16,910,546,821.90 divided by 3,343 awards, about $5,058,494.41. Thick files pull the mean down; thin files pull it up. Neither case publishes a typical instrument. Modifications add rows. Recipients are unpublished. Use the ratio only as a concentration statistic.