Department of Defense and Michigan as a USAspending pair

A thick Defense file on MI

The pair is 097 × MI. $33,885,695,368.10 is the obligation sum. 135,301 is the award count. One hundred thirty-five thousand records under $33.89 billion pulls the mean to about $250,000. Many small actions can sit beside fewer large contracts inside the same total.

The join does not identify tanks, ships, or research labs. Those nouns are not in the packet. Ranking Michigan against Ohio or Indiana would require other facts.

135,301 award records and $33,885,695,368.10 are the only two published facts that define this pair. Subtracting either key changes the number. The mean is arithmetic on those two facts. Readers who need a distribution have to leave this narrative for the overlay table.

Agency 097 versus Michigan’s full mix

The Department of Defense hub without Michigan will not equal $33,885,695,368.10. The Michigan hub without 097 includes civilian awarding agencies. Overlay /states/mi/agencies/097/ is the both-keys table for 135,301 awards.

The architecture is simple. One hub is the agency without geography. One hub is the geography without this agency. One overlay is both. $33,885,695,368.10 and 135,301 belong to the overlay. The hubs answer different questions.

Michigan is not the Great Lakes region

Place of performance MI excludes Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Defense awards coded to those states are outside $33,885,695,368.10. Place of performance is not contractor headquarters.

The Michigan federal spending hub shows 097 next to other agencies that also use MI. Adjacency is not a supply chain.

Do not enlarge $33,885,695,368.10 into a regional estimate by adding neighbors from memory. Each neighbor is another filter, if it exists at all as a tie. This page has one geography code. That is the edge of the claim.

Record counts and missing outlays

Award count 135,301 is records, not unique vendors. The obligation sum is $33,885,695,368.10. Outlays are unpublished. No year is in the facts.

Repeat awards still increment the count if they are separate records. The average is not a typical prime contract.

What the pair does not prove

Defense obligations in Michigan do not measure auto-industry overlap — that would be a different industry coding, not in these facts. They do not connect USAspending to FEC receipts. See Department of Defense in Michigan, Michigan federal spending, Department of Defense, and All spending ties.

How to read this pair next to the hubs

Michigan’s Defense pair is $33,885,695,368.10 on 135,301 awards, about $250,000 per record on a high-count file.

Four links keep the pair honest: Department of Defense in Michigan, Michigan federal spending, Department of Defense, and All spending ties. $33,885,695,368.10 lives on the first. The others are context, not substitutes. 135,301 remains an award-record count.

USAspending’s obligation field can be modified after the fact. Outlays can lag or never match. No year is supplied here. $33,885,695,368.10 should not be labeled cash-on-hand. Geography is one state tag, not a region.

This file is prose around a packet. It is not a substitute for row-level research. It does not merge campaign finance into federal awards. It reports $33,885,695,368.10 on 135,301 awards for this intersection only.

Readers who arrived from a search for a program name, a base, a clinic, or a highway will not find those nouns in the facts. Adding them would be atmosphere. $33,885,695,368.10 is an awarding-agency code crossed with a place-of-performance state. 135,301 is how many award records survive that cross. If a program-level or site-level question still needs answering, it needs a different table than this aggregate. This narrative will not fill the gap with guesses. It will send the reader to Department of Defense in Michigan for rows and to the parent hubs for wider totals.

Researchers sometimes want a per-capita figure, a year split, or a list of top recipients under $33,885,695,368.10. Those products need columns this packet does not contain. Inventing a population divisor or a fiscal year would break the contract. What the packet does contain is the intersection: 135,301 award records summing to $33,885,695,368.10 in obligations. That is already a complete answer to the question “what does this agency–state pair publish?” It is an incomplete answer to almost every other question, and the incompleteness is the point of the caveats on this page. Department of Defense in Michigan remains the filtered table. Michigan federal spending and Department of Defense remain the parents. All spending ties remains the index of other intersections.

Questions

How much has DoD obligated in Michigan?

USAspending records $33,885,695,368.10 in obligations for agency 097 with Michigan place of performance, on 135,301 awards. That is an obligation join, not an outlay total. The pair is awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) and place-of-performance Michigan. It is not Department of Defense nationwide and not Michigan from every awarding agency.

What is the average award?

About $250,000 ($33,885,695,368.10 ÷ 135,301). A high award count pulls the mean down. The mean is not a typical prime contract. That ratio uses only $33,885,695,368.10 and 135,301 from the packet. A mean hides mix: a few large instruments can sit beside many smaller ones.

Does this include Ohio or Indiana?

No. Place of performance is Michigan only. Other states are outside $33,885,695,368.10 and outside the 135,301 awards. Only place-of-performance Michigan plus awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) enter $33,885,695,368.10. Adjacent state codes are other filters, if they exist as ties at all.

Are these outlays?

No. The aggregate is obligations. The 135,301 figure is an award-record count. USAspending’s source note for this aggregate is that obligations are not outlays. Place of performance Michigan is a geography tag, not a roster of residents, vendors, or named facilities.