Department of Defense federal obligations in Ohio
USAspending.gov records $26,676,471,252.66 in Department of Defense obligations under awarding agency 097 with place of performance in Ohio, across 118,857 awards. Dollars sit near other large Defense–state cells, while the award count — 118,857 — sits between sparse assistance tables and Illinois-style books with hundreds of thousands of rows. The join names both sides: Defense as awarding agency and Ohio as geography. It does not say Ohio paid for the Pentagon or that every airframe mentioned in news coverage is in this total. Obligations are not outlays. Average obligation is about $224,441 ($26,676,471,252.66 ÷ 118,857).
Key figures
- DoD agency 097 shows $26,676,471,252.66 in Ohio place-of-performance obligations on 118,857 awards.
- Mean obligation is about $224,441 per award.
- Ohio is a geography tag, not a roster of bases or vendors.
- The join is not the national Defense budget and not all Ohio federal spending.
- Figures are obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.
The 097 and Ohio intersection
This tie is the USAspending cell for awarding agency 097 and place-of-performance state OH. The $26,676,471,252.66 sum is the obligation aggregate on awards that match both keys. Ohio’s all-agency hub is broader; the national Defense hub is broader in the other direction. Quoting this page as either parent would misstate the filter.
One hundred eighteen thousand eight hundred fifty-seven awards is a mid-to-high volume for a state–Defense pair. That count can include contracts, orders, and modifications. The facts do not name Wright-Patterson, a tank plant, or any vendor. Inferring a single installation from the state tag would be a leap the table does not support.
Department of Defense as awarding agency 097
Code 097 is the Defense parent in this extract. Component agencies can sit underneath it in the source. This packet supplies one dollar total and one award count for the parent-plus-Ohio slice. The overlay /states/oh/agencies/097/ holds the same pair without adding years or object classes that are absent from the facts.
A reader who wants Defense awards in every state should leave this tie and open the agency 097 page. $26,676,471,252.66 is Ohio’s tagged share in the aggregate, not the department’s worldwide obligation book.
Ohio as place of performance
Ohio is state code OH. Place of performance can follow the location of work, a recipient’s state, or a reporting convention. Awards coded to Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky, or Michigan are outside this $26,676,471,252.66 figure even when supply chains cross those lines. The join does not reconstruct those chains.
Statewide Ohio federal spending includes HHS, Agriculture, Veterans Affairs, and other awarding agencies. Defense is one column in that grid. Comparing this cell to an Agriculture–Ohio cell compares two filters, not two “winners.”
Concentration: $224,441 versus the row count
Mean obligation of about $224,441 sits between sparse assistance tables with a few thousand rows and Defense cells that stack many more award records under similar dollar totals. The comparison is about table shape, not about which state “wins” Defense work. This page’s own facts remain $26,676,471,252.66 and 118,857.
A mean is not a median. A few large airframes or ship-related actions, if present, would pull the average up; thousands of small supply contracts would pull it down. The aggregate does not say which mix Ohio actually has.
What the pair does not prove
Ohio place-of-performance tagging does not mean FEC receipts from Ohio funded these awards. Obligations are not outlays. The page does not rank Ohio as more militarized than neighboring states. It reports one USAspending join.
Continue from Department of Defense in Ohio for the overlay, Ohio federal spending for all agencies, Department of Defense for agency 097 nationally, and All spending ties for other pairs.
How to read the Ohio–Defense numbers
Ohio’s Defense pair ($26,676,471,252.66 on 118,857 awards) is easy to narrate as “the industrial Midwest.” That story is not in the facts. The facts are an agency code, a state code, a dollar total, and a row count. Filling in tank plants or air bases from memory would turn a join page into unsourced local color. Military departments roll up to 097. Ohio’s 118,857 records may mix Army, Air Force, Navy, and other Defense awarding offices. This packet does not say in what proportion. Anyone quoting a single service’s “Ohio budget” from this page is quoting a filter this page does not apply.
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Dayton all collapse to OH. The $26,676,471,252.66 figure is statewide in the USAspending sense, which is cruder than a metro-area economic-impact study. Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky, and Michigan awards stay out even when a trucking lane crosses those lines the same afternoon.
Questions
- How much Defense spending is obligated in Ohio?
- USAspending records $26,676,471,252.66 in obligations for awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) with Ohio place of performance, covering 118,857 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for this pair, not an outlay total and not the national Defense figure.
- Is this Wright-Patterson’s budget?
- No. The filter is agency 097 plus OH place of performance. The facts do not name installations. $26,676,471,252.66 and 118,857 awards cover whatever records carry both tags.
- What is the average DoD award in Ohio?
- Dividing $26,676,471,252.66 by 118,857 awards produces about $224,441 per award. That is a mean of the aggregate, not a typical unit price or a median contract.
- Does this include civilian Defense agencies?
- Anything coded to awarding agency 097 with Ohio place of performance is in the total. The packet does not split military departments from other Defense awarding offices.
USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.