Department of Defense obligations in Mississippi

Nearly 180,000 Defense records on one state code

Keep 097 and MS; sum obligations. The harvest shows $45,748,699,718.97 on 179,828 awards. That count is not a shipyard census and not a unique-vendor census. It is a record count. Many smaller actions can sit beside fewer large contracts inside the same about-$254,000 mean.

Mississippi’s SSA and HHS pages use codes 028 and 075. They are not included in $45,748,699,718.97. Sharing a state is not sharing a dollar trail.

$45,748,699,718.97 can look inevitable once it is printed in a headline. It is not. It is the sum of records that happen to carry both tags, 179,828 of them in this harvest. A different coding of place of performance would change the sum. So would a different awarding-agency code.

Agency 097 without Mississippi

The Department of Defense hub drops the MS filter and will not equal $45,748,699,718.97. The Mississippi hub drops 097 and includes civilian awarding agencies. Overlay /states/ms/agencies/097/ is the both-keys table for 179,828 awards.

A common error is to treat the agency page as if it were this state slice, or the state page as if it were this agency. $45,748,699,718.97 is the intersection. 179,828 is the intersection’s row count. The parents include rows this page excludes.

Mississippi is not the Gulf Coast as a region

Place of performance MS excludes Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Defense awards coded to those states are outside $45,748,699,718.97. Place of performance is not contractor headquarters and not a named installation list — names are not in the facts.

The Mississippi federal spending hub shows 097 next to 028 and 075 as separate columns. Columns are not a combined military-plus-benefits score.

Do not enlarge $45,748,699,718.97 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.

Reading a high-count obligation file

Each of 179,828 records can be modified. The published sum $45,748,699,718.97 is the obligation aggregate. Outlays are absent. No year is supplied. Average about $254,000 is only the two facts divided.

Repeat awards to one recipient still increment the count if they are separate records.

What the DoD–Mississippi join is not

It is not proof that Defense “drives” Mississippi’s economy, and it is not a ranking against other states. It does not connect Pentagon obligations to FEC receipts. See Department of Defense in Mississippi, Mississippi federal spending, Department of Defense, and All spending ties.

How to read this pair next to the hubs

Mississippi’s Defense pair is a high-count file: 179,828 awards summing to $45,748,699,718.97, about $254,000 per record.

When citing $45,748,699,718.97, name the awarding agency and the place-of-performance state in the same breath. Department of Defense in Mississippi is that citation’s home. Mississippi federal spending and Department of Defense answer wider questions. All spending ties lists other intersections. 179,828 is not unique vendors.

Nothing in the facts converts obligations to outlays or assigns $45,748,699,718.97 to a fiscal year. Nothing lists facilities. Correlation between an agency code and a state code is a join result, not a finding about local economies.

A later harvest can revise totals. Use the overlay as the operational source. Do not sum this page with other overlays to invent a combined presence score. The published pair is $45,748,699,718.97 on 179,828 awards.

The average implied by $45,748,699,718.97 divided by 179,828 is a single derived figure. It is allowed because it uses only those two facts. It is also the easiest figure to abuse. A high average does not mean every award is large. A low average does not mean there are no large awards. It means the ratio of the published sum to the published count is that number. Anyone who needs the mix has to look at rows on Department of Defense in Mississippi. Anyone who needs the agency without this state has Department of Defense. Anyone who needs the state without this agency has Mississippi federal spending.

Questions

How much has DoD obligated in Mississippi?

USAspending records $45,748,699,718.97 in obligations for agency 097 with Mississippi place of performance, on 179,828 awards. That is the Defense–Mississippi join, not an outlay total. The pair is awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) and place-of-performance Mississippi. It is not Department of Defense nationwide and not Mississippi from every awarding agency.

Why are there 179,828 awards?

That is the award-record count for 097 × MS. Combined with $45,748,699,718.97, the average is about $254,000. The count is not unique vendors. 179,828 is the award-record count for this pair, not unique vendors. Repeat awards and small actions can increment the count while $45,748,699,718.97 remains the obligation sum.

Does this include Alabama or Louisiana Defense awards?

No. Place of performance is Mississippi only. Other states are outside $45,748,699,718.97 and outside the 179,828 awards. Only place-of-performance Mississippi plus awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) enter $45,748,699,718.97. Adjacent state codes are other filters, if they exist as ties at all.

Is SSA in Mississippi part of this total?

No. Social Security Administration is a different awarding-agency overlay. This page is Department of Defense 097 only. This page is Department of Defense (agency 097) only: $45,748,699,718.97 on 179,828 awards. Other awarding-agency overlays that share Mississippi as place of performance are different filters with their own packets.