Department of Defense federal obligations in Montana

A high-count DoD file on Montana

Department of Defense as awarding agency, Montana as place-of-performance: 10,617 records summing to $1,893,579,508.63. A Department of Defense award coded outside MT is out. An award in Montana from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Montana (MT) excludes Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Washington. An Idaho-coded award is ID even if the unit trains in Montana.

Ten thousand six hundred seventeen awards is a thick DoD action file: many more rows than a thin Energy cell, still a record count rather than unique vendors. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 10,617 as 10,617 unique bases, active-duty headcount, or missile silos. The overlay Department of Defense in Montana is the both-keys table. Montana federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Defense is the agency book without an MT filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Malmstrom folklore is not a packet split. Army, Navy, Air Force, and other 097 offices can share the cell without a published service pie. Correlation is not causation: Montana did not cause $1,893,579,508.63 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 097 × MT only.

Award rows are not unique installations

$1,893,579,508.63 does not measure bases, active-duty headcount, or missile silos. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 097 and an MT place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 10,617 awards as a census of bases, active-duty headcount, or missile silos. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Montana federal spending or Department of Defense matched $1,893,579,508.63 and 10,617, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Idaho, Wyoming, and North Dakota DoD joins are other pairs, not addends.

Montana statewide, not a Malmstrom-only map

Place of performance MT is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Montana (MT) excludes Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Washington. An Idaho-coded award is ID even if the unit trains in Montana. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Malmstrom folklore is not a packet split. Army, Navy, Air Force, and other 097 offices can share the cell without a published service pie. This packet does not split $1,893,579,508.63 by city, county, or named facility. 10,617 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Many actions, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,893,579,508.63 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Montana confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Montana’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 10,617-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $1,893,579,508.63.

Citing DoD in Montana

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Defense (agency 097) obligated $1,893,579,508.63 on 10,617 awards coded to Montana. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as bases, active-duty headcount, or missile silos.

Prefer Department of Defense in Montana if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Montana federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to MT. Department of Defense is the 097 parent without the MT filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,893,579,508.63.

A usable footnote names Department of Defense, Montana, $1,893,579,508.63, and 10,617. The compact headline $1.89 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $178,354 is $1,893,579,508.63 divided by 10,617. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Defense obligated in Montana?

USAspending.gov records $1,893,579,508.63 across 10,617 awards with awarding agency 097 and a Montana tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of bases, active-duty headcount, or missile silos. Department of Defense in Montana is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,893,579,508.63.

Is $1,893,579,508.63 a measure of bases, active-duty headcount, or missile silos?

No. The packet publishes $1,893,579,508.63 and 10,617 awards for agency 097 inside MT coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this DoD file have 10,617 awards?

That is the award-record count for 097 × MT. Combined with $1,893,579,508.63, the average is about $178,354. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 10,617 is not unique bases, active-duty headcount, or missile silos. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live DoD–Montana table?

Department of Defense in Montana is the overlay. Montana federal spending and Department of Defense are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $1,893,579,508.63. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays. Place of performance is MT.