Department of Defense obligations in Maine 1st District (ME-01)

Department of Defense and Maine 1st District (ME-01) as a USAspending pair

Awarding agency 097 and congressional district ME-01 meet here. $23,663,848,534.61 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 Maine 1st District (ME-01), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split DoD components or contract versus assistance instruments. 9,509 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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 $23,663,848,534.61 by 9,509 yields about $2,488,573.83 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 9,509 awards is a thick Defense file. A high district share still leaves other awarding agencies on the remaining ME-01 mix. Named contractors are unpublished. Do not treat ME-01’s 097 cell as a synonym for every Defense account nationwide. Open Maine 1st District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Defense for agency 097 without the ME-01 filter, Maine federal spending for every awarding agency in the Maine extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $23,663,848,534.61.

How USAspending labels Department of Defense

USAspending labels awarding agency 097 as Department of Defense. That code produced $23,663,848,534.61 when crossed with Maine 1st District (ME-01) place of performance. The agency-wide 097 hub does not require ME-01 geography. The district hub does not require Defense. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 9,509 awards. The packet does not split DoD components or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Maine 1st District (ME-01) did not “cause” $23,663,848,534.61 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 097 × ME-01 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.

Geography is ME-01, not a facility map

Maine 1st District (ME-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 ME-01 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Maine districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 097. Maine 1st District (ME-01) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Maine. Other Maine districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 097. Maine 1st District (ME-01) is a numbered USAspending geography inside Maine. The high share describes this join, not a ranking of Maine districts as winners or losers.

Maine federal spending shows how agency 097 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $23,663,848,534.61 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Maine 1st District (ME-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 $30,173,809,018.63; $23,663,848,534.61 is the Defense slice of that denominator.

Commitment totals versus cash paid

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $23,663,848,534.61 is that kind of sum for Department of Defense inside ME-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 $23,663,848,534.61 as given.

Keeping both sides of the 097 × ME-01 pair

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Defense (agency 097) obligated $23,663,848,534.61 on 9,509 awards coded to Maine 1st District (ME-01). Name Department of Defense and Maine 1st District (ME-01) together. Keep the obligation word. If Maine 1st 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. 78.4% of $30,173,809,018.63 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Share, mean, and what they are not

9,509 awards is a thick Defense file. A high district share still leaves other awarding agencies on the remaining ME-01 mix. 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 $2,488,573.83) and the district share (78.4% of $30,173,809,018.63) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Maine 1st District and Department of Defense if the live tables moved.

Do not rank Maine 1st District (ME-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 $23,663,848,534.61 and 9,509 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 Maine 1st District (ME-01)?

USAspending.gov lists $23,663,848,534.61 in Department of Defense obligations across 9,509 awards with place of performance in Maine 1st District (ME-01). Agency 097 × ME-01 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Maine’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 78.4% of the district’s published total ($30,173,809,018.63). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $2,488,573.83, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does $23,663,848,534.61 include every Defense program in ME-01?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split DoD components or contract versus assistance instruments. $23,663,848,534.61 is the combined obligation sum for agency 097 inside ME-01 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Defense and Maine 1st District to inspect parent tables. 9,509 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $23,663,848,534.61 cash already paid in Maine 1st District (ME-01)?

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 $23,663,848,534.61 as checks already cleared in Maine 1st District (ME-01) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 9,509 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

How does this Defense cell relate to Maine statewide spending?

Maine federal spending is the Maine statewide extract across awarding agencies. $23,663,848,534.61 is the Department of Defense amount inside Maine 1st District (ME-01) only, not the statewide Defense total. Adding Maine federal spending to $23,663,848,534.61 double-counts. Agency 097 nationwide lives on Department of Defense. This join is 097 × ME-01.