Department of Defense and New York as a USAspending pair

A quarter-million Defense awards on one state code

The relationship is agency 097 (Department of Defense) joined to place-of-performance NY. $60,913,848,761.29 is the obligation sum. 251,149 is the award count. Few civilian agency–state joins in this inventory carry that many rows. The count still does not identify contract vehicles, bases, or vendors; those names are not in the facts.

About $243,000 per award is the mean. Means on high-count files are pulled by numerous smaller actions. A few large contracts can still sit inside the same $60,913,848,761.29. The join does not publish the distribution.

A useful check on $60,913,848,761.29 is to ask what 251,149 records implies. A large sum on few rows concentrates. A large sum on many rows dilutes the mean. That check is still not a ranking of states. It is a reading of this file’s shape.

Agency 097 beside the New York hub

Department of Defense is the USAspending label for code 097. Other codes are other pages. The agency hub without NY will not equal $60,913,848,761.29. The New York state hub without 097 will not equal 251,149 Defense awards. Overlay /states/ny/agencies/097/ is the both-keys table.

New York’s statewide mix includes HHS, SSA, and other awarding agencies. Those dollars are adjacent in the state file, not subsets of this Defense total.

If a citation of $60,913,848,761.29 does not mention both the awarding agency and the place-of-performance state, it is not citing this join. If a citation of 251,149 does not mention both keys, it is not this file’s count.

NY is not the Northeast

Place of performance New York excludes New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Vermont. Defense awards coded to those states do not add into $60,913,848,761.29. Place of performance is also not the contractor’s incorporation state. Performance in New York can be reported for a firm headquartered elsewhere.

The New York federal spending hub is the context page for seeing 097 next to other agencies that also use NY. That listing is not a ranking of which agency “built” the state.

Named sites are absent from the facts, so they are absent from this page. $60,913,848,761.29 is not a map of clinics, yards, bases, or housing authorities. It is a coded state plus a coded agency. The overlay is still the operational table.

Reading 251,149 as a record count

Award count 251,149 is a count of award records in the aggregate, not a count of unique companies and not a count of payments. One ID can carry modifications that still sit in the obligation sum $60,913,848,761.29. Outlays are unpublished here.

No fiscal year is in the packet. This page therefore does not attach $60.91 billion to a single year.

What the DoD–New York join does not show

It does not show that Defense spending caused New York employment, and it does not show the reverse. It does not merge FEC receipts into USAspending. Use Department of Defense in New York for the filtered table, New York federal spending for all agencies, Department of Defense for agency 097, and All spending ties for other pairs.

How to read this pair next to the hubs

New York’s Defense pair is defined as much by 251,149 records as by $60,913,848,761.29. The about-$243,000 mean follows from that count.

Navigation: Department of Defense in New York for the pair, New York federal spending for all agencies on this geography, Department of Defense for this agency without the state, All spending ties for other joins. Quote $60,913,848,761.29 with both keys. Quote 251,149 as records.

Legal commitments can be de-obligated. Payments can trail. This page has the commitment field only. $60,913,848,761.29 is therefore not a cash figure. The geography field is not a services roster.

Snapshot versus live table: if they diverge, the overlay wins. Do not forecast from the average. Do not blend FEC and USAspending. The intersection is $60,913,848,761.29 on 251,149 awards.

De-obligation, modification, and multi-year vehicles can all sit under records that contribute to $60,913,848,761.29. That is another reason 251,149 is not a payment count. An award ID can be quiet in one period and active in another; this aggregate does not say which. The page therefore stops at obligations-as-harvested. Department of Defense in New York is the place to inspect rows. New York federal spending and Department of Defense are the places to drop a key. Campaign-finance datasets remain out of scope: same country, different filing system, no dollar trail into $60,913,848,761.29.

Questions

How much has DoD obligated in New York?

USAspending records $60,913,848,761.29 in obligations for agency 097 (Department of Defense) with New York place of performance, on 251,149 awards. That is an obligation total for the pair. The pair is awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) and place-of-performance New York.

Why are there 251,149 awards?

That is the award-record count in the aggregate for 097 × NY. Combined with $60,913,848,761.29, the average is about $243,000. High counts are common in some Defense slices; the count is not a unique-vendor census. 251,149 is the award-record count for this pair, not unique vendors.

Does this include New Jersey Defense awards?

No. Place of performance is New York only. New Jersey and other states have separate ties. They are outside $60,913,848,761.29 and outside the 251,149 awards. Only place-of-performance New York plus awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) enter $60,913,848,761.29. Adjacent state codes are other filters, if they exist as ties at all.

Are these outlays?

No. The source aggregate is obligations. Outlays can differ. The $60,913,848,761.29 figure should not be described as cash spent. USAspending’s source note for this aggregate is that obligations are not outlays. Place of performance New York is a geography tag, not a roster of residents, vendors, or named facilities.