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Department of Defense federal obligations in Minnesota

USAspending.gov records $9,683,480,947.77 in Department of Defense obligations under awarding agency 097 with place of performance in Minnesota, across 64,142 awards. Minnesota’s DoD cell is a thick-file case in this slice: 64,142 awards against a $9.68 billion obligation sum. That arithmetic is a thick-file case: many rows against a large obligation sum, so the mean is pulled down by volume. The pair is Department of Defense and Minnesota — not Minnesota’s entire federal inflow and not cash already paid. Average obligation is about $150,969 ($9,683,480,947.77 ÷ 64,142).

Key figures

  • DoD in Minnesota: $9,683,480,947.77 across 64,142 USAspending awards.
  • Implied mean about $150,969 per record, not a typical award size.
  • Agency 097 × MN is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a program split.
  • Cite USAspending.gov; quote Department of Defense in Minnesota if the live table moved.
  • Minnesota federal spending and Department of Defense are parents, not amounts to add into $9,683,480,947.77.

What the DoD–Minnesota join is

Awarding agency 097 and place-of-performance state MN meet here. $9,683,480,947.77 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 Minnesota, and not an outlay register. Military departments and defense agencies can roll up under awarding agency 097. This join does not split Army, Navy, Air Force, or other Defense components. 64,142 is a thick action file: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Dividing $9,683,480,947.77 by 64,142 yields about $150,969 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line, and it is not a named base budget, not a contractor roster, and not a force-structure table. A second DoD slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Minnesota’s 097 cell as a synonym for every DoD account.

Open Department of Defense in Minnesota for the live filtered table, Minnesota federal spending for every awarding agency in the state extract, Department of Defense for agency 097 without a Minnesota filter, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $9,683,480,947.77.

Awarding agency 097 as the DoD side

USAspending labels awarding agency 097 as Department of Defense. That code produced $9,683,480,947.77 when crossed with Minnesota place of performance. The agency-wide 097 hub does not require MN geography. The Minnesota hub does not require DoD. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 64,142 awards.

This page reports defense awarding activity that USAspending coded to Minnesota. Correlation is not causation: Minnesota did not “cause” $9,683,480,947.77 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 097 × MN only. Military departments and defense agencies can roll up under awarding agency 097. This join does not split Army, Navy, Air Force, or other Defense components.

Minnesota as place of performance (MN)

Minnesota on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to Minnesota residents. Awards can list MN while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, or South Dakota belong on those ties even when a Upper Midwest story is the same. Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Duluth, and the rest of the counties share one MN stamp. Place of performance is MN, not a county map.

Minnesota federal spending shows how agency 097 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same geography. $9,683,480,947.77 is one column in that table, not the table. This packet does not split Minnesota by county, metro, or congressional district. Awards that carry a different awarding-agency code stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to DoD.

Obligations, not outlays

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $9,683,480,947.77 is that kind of sum for Department of Defense inside Minnesota 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.

Minnesota’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 64,142-row DoD cell leaves USAspending.gov. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $9,683,480,947.77 as given. Treat 64,142 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.

How to cite DoD in Minnesota

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Defense (agency 097) obligated $9,683,480,947.77 on 64,142 awards coded to Minnesota. Name Department of Defense and Minnesota together. Keep the obligation word. If Department of Defense in Minnesota has refreshed, quote the overlay over this snapshot. The pair is not a named base budget, not a contractor roster, and not a force-structure table.

Keep Department of Defense, Minnesota, $9,683,480,947.77, and 64,142 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Defense is the 097 parent without a Minnesota filter. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a state with DoD does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending join.

Reading a thick DoD file in Minnesota

64,142 is a thick action file: many rows against $9,683,480,947.77. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. Modifications, orders, and repeat instruments add rows without proving 64,142 unique recipients. The implied mean (about $150,969) is pulled down by volume. It is a concentration statistic, not a typical Minnesota DoD payment.

Do not rank Minnesota as more DoD-dependent than neighboring states on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 097 ties with different dollar totals. This snapshot holds $9,683,480,947.77 and 64,142 only. Prefer Department of Defense in Minnesota if the live table moved.

Questions

How much DoD spending is coded to Minnesota?
USAspending.gov lists $9,683,480,947.77 in Department of Defense obligations across 64,142 Minnesota-coded awards. Agency 097 × MN is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Minnesota’s complete federal ledger. Department of Defense in Minnesota is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $150,969, a ratio of those two facts only.
Does this total include every DoD program in Minnesota?
The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. Military departments and defense agencies can roll up under awarding agency 097. This join does not split Army, Navy, Air Force, or other Defense components. $9,683,480,947.77 is the combined obligation sum for agency 097 inside Minnesota coding. This page will not invent a program pie. Open Department of Defense in Minnesota to inspect award lines. 64,142 remains an action count, not a program count.
Is $9,683,480,947.77 cash already paid in Minnesota?
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 $9,683,480,947.77 as checks already cleared in Minnesota confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 64,142 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.
Where is the live DoD–Minnesota table?
Department of Defense in Minnesota is the overlay. Minnesota federal spending and Department of Defense are the parents. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Those hubs are not addends. Keep both sides of the join when citing $9,683,480,947.77. Place of performance is MN, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.

USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.