How much Defense spending is coded to North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03)?

USAspending.gov lists $7,448,674,287.01 in Department of Defense obligations across 48,690 awards with place of performance in North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03). Agency 097 × NC-03 is an obligation join, not an outlay. The cell is 52.8% of the district total ($14,107,795,476.14). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $152,981.60, a ratio only.

Does $7,448,674,287.01 include every Defense program in NC-03?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments. $7,448,674,287.01 is the combined obligation sum for agency 097 inside NC-03. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Defense and North Carolina 3rd District for parent tables. 48,690 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $7,448,674,287.01 cash already paid in North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03)?

No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays are a different concept and are not this packet's headline. Treating $7,448,674,287.01 as checks already cleared in North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 48,690 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

How does this Defense cell relate to North Carolina statewide spending?

North Carolina federal spending is the North Carolina statewide extract across awarding agencies. $7,448,674,287.01 is the Department of Defense amount inside North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03) only, not the statewide Defense total. Adding North Carolina federal spending to $7,448,674,287.01 double-counts. Agency 097 nationwide lives on Department of Defense. This join is 097 × NC-03.

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Department of Defense in North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03)

$7,448,674,287.01 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum for awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) inside North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03), on 48,690 award records. Forty-eight thousand six hundred ninety Defense-coded awards equal about fifty-three percent of NC-03's district obligation total — a mass-action North Carolina Defense file whose implied mean is pulled down by volume. That pair is Department of Defense and North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03) — not North Carolina's entire federal inflow, not Department of Defense nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 52.8% of this district's published obligation total ($14,107,795,476.14). Implied average obligation is about $152,981.60 ($7,448,674,287.01 ÷ 48,690). Correlation is not causation.

Key figures

Defense in North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03): $7,448,674,287.01 across 48,690 USAspending awards.
Implied mean about $152,981.60 per record; district share 52.8% of $14,107,795,476.14.
Agency 097 × NC-03 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
Cite USAspending.gov; quote North Carolina 3rd District and Department of Defense if live tables moved.
North Carolina federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $7,448,674,287.01.

Department of Defense and North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03) as a USAspending pair

Awarding agency 097 and congressional district NC-03 meet here. $7,448,674,287.01 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 North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments. 48,690 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. This cell is not an installation map, a platform catalog, or a named-contractor file.

Dividing $7,448,674,287.01 by 48,690 yields about $152,981.60 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 48,690 rows is a mass-action Defense file. Mass row counts are still not unique vendors. Do not invent installations to explain the count. Do not treat NC-03's 097 cell as a synonym for every Defense account nationwide. Open North Carolina 3rd District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Defense for agency 097 without a NC-03 filter, North Carolina federal spending for every awarding agency in the North Carolina extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $7,448,674,287.01.

How USAspending labels Department of Defense

USAspending labels awarding agency 097 as Department of Defense. That code produced $7,448,674,287.01 when crossed with North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03) place of performance. The agency-wide 097 hub does not require NC-03 geography. The district hub does not require Defense. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 48,690 awards. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03) did not cause $7,448,674,287.01 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 097 × NC-03 only. This cell is not an installation map, a platform catalog, 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 NC-03, not a facility map

North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list NC-03 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other North Carolina districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 097. North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03) is a numbered place-of-performance geography inside North Carolina. Other North Carolina districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 097.

North Carolina federal spending shows how agency 097 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $7,448,674,287.01 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03) 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 $14,107,795,476.14; $7,448,674,287.01 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. $7,448,674,287.01 is that kind of sum for Department of Defense inside NC-03 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 $7,448,674,287.01 as given.

Keeping both sides of the 097 × NC-03 pair

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Defense (agency 097) obligated $7,448,674,287.01 on 48,690 awards coded to North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03). Name Department of Defense and North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03) together. Keep the obligation word. If North Carolina 3rd District or Department of Defense has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not an installation map, a platform catalog, or a named-contractor file. 52.8% of $14,107,795,476.14 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Share, mean, and what they are not

48,690 rows is a mass-action Defense file. Mass row counts are still not unique vendors. Do not invent installations to explain the count. A thick file is not a program pie. The packet still publishes one Defense rollup for NC-03. 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 $152,981.60) and the district share (52.8% of $14,107,795,476.14) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer North Carolina 3rd District and Department of Defense if the live tables moved.

Do not rank North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03) 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 $7,448,674,287.01 and 48,690 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 North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03)?: USAspending.gov lists $7,448,674,287.01 in Department of Defense obligations across 48,690 awards with place of performance in North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03). Agency 097 × NC-03 is an obligation join, not an outlay. The cell is 52.8% of the district total ($14,107,795,476.14). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $152,981.60, a ratio only.
Does $7,448,674,287.01 include every Defense program in NC-03?: The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments. $7,448,674,287.01 is the combined obligation sum for agency 097 inside NC-03. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Defense and North Carolina 3rd District for parent tables. 48,690 remains an action count, not a program count.
Is $7,448,674,287.01 cash already paid in North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03)?: No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays are a different concept and are not this packet's headline. Treating $7,448,674,287.01 as checks already cleared in North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 48,690 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
How does this Defense cell relate to North Carolina statewide spending?: North Carolina federal spending is the North Carolina statewide extract across awarding agencies. $7,448,674,287.01 is the Department of Defense amount inside North Carolina 3rd District (NC-03) only, not the statewide Defense total. Adding North Carolina federal spending to $7,448,674,287.01 double-counts. Agency 097 nationwide lives on Department of Defense. This join is 097 × NC-03.

USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.