Department of Defense federal obligations in North Carolina

A high-count Defense book in North Carolina

This page reports awarding agency 097 paired with North Carolina (NC) place of performance. The $22,393,282,248.46 total is the USAspending aggregate for that pair. North Carolina’s all-agency hub is broader; the national Defense hub is broader in the other direction. This cell is the overlap only.

Two hundred forty-one thousand three hundred fifty-nine awards is a large row count. High counts often reflect many smaller procurement actions and modifications rather than a handful of mega-grants. The packet does not classify those rows and does not identify a particular installation. Inferring one base from the state tag would overfit the aggregate.

North Carolina’s 241,359 Defense records under $22,393,282,248.46 dwarf the state’s USDA row count in this slice, but dwarfing is not a finding that Defense “matters more.” It is a finding that 097-tagged NC awards are numerous. Unique vendors, unique installations, and unique service members are other units. This page’s units are dollars and award records.

Agency 097 without collapsing components

Code 097 is the Department of Defense parent. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and other Defense awarding offices can sit underneath it in the source. This packet does not split them. The overlay /states/nc/agencies/097/ is the table for the same pair.

A national Defense page will show other states. $22,393,282,248.46 is North Carolina’s tagged share, not the department’s worldwide obligation book. 241,359 is not a headcount of service members stationed in the state.

North Carolina as geography

North Carolina is state code NC. Place of performance can follow work, a recipient address, or a reporting convention. Awards coded to Virginia, South Carolina, Tennessee, or Georgia stay outside this $22,393,282,248.46 sum even when units train across those lines. The join cannot reconstruct those movements.

Statewide North Carolina federal spending includes Agriculture, HHS, and other awarding agencies. Defense is one column. An Agriculture–North Carolina join on this site uses a different agency code. This page keeps 097 and NC only.

What $92,780 per award is saying

Mean obligation is about $92,780 ($22,393,282,248.46 ÷ 241,359). That is a lower average than Defense cells with tens of thousands of rows and similar dollars, because the denominator here is large. It is still a mean, not a median, and not a typical spare-parts invoice.

Award counts can include multiple actions on related vehicles. 241,359 is not 241,359 unique vendors. Net obligations can include downward adjustments.

Limits of the Defense–North Carolina join

Place-of-performance overlap does not mean North Carolina campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. The page does not rank the state as more militarized than neighbors. It reports one USAspending cell.

Continue from Department of Defense in North Carolina for the overlay, North Carolina federal spending for all agencies, Department of Defense for agency 097 nationally, and All spending ties for other pairs.

How to read the North Carolina–Defense numbers

North Carolina Defense ($22,393,282,248.46, 241,359 awards) looks like a high-tempo procurement book. High tempo is an inference from row count, not a finding about deployments. The packet does not mention units, ports, or forts. Keep the inference labeled as geometry. Two hundred forty-one thousand three hundred fifty-nine rows will include modifications if the source file counts them as awards. Many Defense extracts do. This packet does not say whether they did. Until that is known, 241,359 is a ceiling on unique actions, not a floor on unique vendors.

Virginia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia bound North Carolina. Joint training and shared contractors do not move dollars across those codes. Only NC-tagged awards sit in $22,393,282,248.46. The join is not a map of East Coast force structure.

Questions

How much Defense spending is obligated in North Carolina?

USAspending records $22,393,282,248.46 in obligations for awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) with North Carolina place of performance, covering 241,359 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for this pair, not an outlay total and not the national Defense figure.

Why are there 241,359 Defense awards in North Carolina?

The 241,359 figure is the award-record count in the aggregate for agency 097 and NC place of performance. High counts often reflect many smaller actions. The packet does not list bases or vendors.

What is the average DoD award in North Carolina?

Dividing $22,393,282,248.46 by 241,359 awards produces about $92,780 per award. That mean mixes whatever award types sit in the table; it is not a median contract value.

Does this include Marine Corps and Army together?

The filter is awarding agency 097. The facts do not split services. Anything coded to 097 with NC place of performance is in the $22,393,282,248.46 total.