Department of Defense obligations in Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01)
23,191 Department of Defense awards tagged to Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01) sum to $5,823,003,844.50 on USAspending.gov. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations, not a census of installations, contractors, or service members. The same extract stores $10,280,342,470.01 as the all-agency district book; this page is only agency 097. The dollars are recorded commitments, not outlays.
Key figures
- Department of Defense in PA-01 shows $5,823,003,844.50 in USAspending obligations on 23,191 awards.
- 23,191 awards are a row count, not a census of installations, contractors, or service members.
- The join is agency 097 plus PA-01, not PA-13 and not statewide Pennsylvania Defense.
- The total is commitments, not outlays. FEC donations do not fund this cell.
One of the thickest DoD files in this slice sits on PA-01
Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01) holds one of the thickest Defense award files in this slice: more than twenty-three thousand rows. File thickness is a USAspending row count, not a map of plants, which are not in the packet. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $5,823,003,844.50 on 23,191 awards for awarding agency 097 with Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01) as place of performance. Treat the pair as a table intersection, not a ranking of districts as winners or losers, and not a claim that 23,191 awards equal 23,191 Defense contractors. A Department of Defense amount tagged to a different district is out of this cell.
VA, DHS, or Energy awards that mention defense in a description sit outside $5,823,003,844.50 unless those awards also carry agency 097 and PA-01 geography. Mixing those lines would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and base employment or procurement headcount is not causation. Those series are not in the packet. Place of performance as PA-01 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $5,823,003,844.50 in a district treasury. Pennsylvania 13th District Defense is a different district tag. Do not add PA-13 into PA-01.
23,191 Defense rows in Pennsylvania 1st District
Twenty-three thousand one hundred ninety-one DoD awards can include continuations and payment-file batches. It is not 23,191 contractors and not 23,191 service members. Mean obligation is about $251,088.95 if $5,823,003,844.50 were divided evenly across 23,191 lines — a mechanical ratio, not a published typical award. Award count is a row count of USAspending awards, including possible modifications. The extract does not split Army, Navy, Air Force, or other components inside agency 097. Unique recipients are unpublished.
This page will not invent contractor or recipient names. Open Pennsylvania 1st District for the stored district table and Department of Defense for the national agency shelf. Do not convert 23,191 into a map of installations, contractors, or service members inside Pennsylvania 1st District. The $5,823,003,844.50 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on USAspending.gov rather than inferring an inventory.
PA-01 DoD dollars are obligations, not invoices already paid
DoD obligations are commitments, not invoices already paid. DoD awards often obligate as contracts or assistance are recorded and draw as deliveries are billed. The $5,823,003,844.50 headline is the obligation sum on this district-agency join, not hardware already delivered or payroll already issued. Citing the figure as cash already sent confuses two USAspending concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. No fiscal year is attached to this packet; do not annualize $5,823,003,844.50 into a yearly run rate.
Keep the obligation word on $5,823,003,844.50. Keep both Department of Defense and Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01) in the citation. Campaign contributions recorded on FEC.gov do not fund this USAspending cell. Different datasets can share a state abbreviation without sharing a money trail.
What the Pennsylvania 1st District Defense extract omits
The extract has no roster of installations, contractors, or service members. Facts remain $5,823,003,844.50, 23,191 awards, agency 097 (Department of Defense), Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01), and a district-wide book of $10,280,342,470.01. This page will not invent a contractor league table. Sibling district-agency joins are separate obligation totals, not a better or worse score.
Pennsylvania 1st District places PA-01 among other congressional districts. Department of Defense places agency 097 among other awarding agencies. Pennsylvania federal spending is the statewide shelf. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Mixing those shelves would invent a share of Pennsylvania spending or of Department of Defense's national book the packet never computed. The $5,823,003,844.50 figure is the tagged pair only. Pennsylvania 13th District Defense is a different district tag. Do not add PA-13 into PA-01.
Citing Department of Defense in PA-01
A clean footnote names Department of Defense (agency 097), Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01), $5,823,003,844.50 in obligations, and 23,191 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not relabel 23,191 as a census of installations, contractors, or service members. Quote the district overlay if you need every awarding agency in PA-01, and quote the agency page if you need Department of Defense without a district filter. About 56.6% of the $10,280,342,470.01 district book sits on this agency in the extract; that percentage is a derived ratio, not a separate published table.
A ties page exists because two tables meet. One table is awarding agency 097. The other is congressional district place of performance as PA-01. The headline $5,823,003,844.50 is the obligation sum on that intersection. It is not a forecast, not a budget request, and not an outlay. It is also not a claim that Department of Defense caused Pennsylvania 1st District's economy to grow, or that the district caused the awards to exist. If a later ingest moves the live overlay, prefer the overlay when the table and this snapshot diverge.
Questions
- How much did DoD obligate in Pennsylvania 1st District?
- USAspending.gov shows $5,823,003,844.50 in obligations for Department of Defense (agency 097) with Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01) as place of performance, across 23,191 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district's entire defense or veterans budget. Other agencies in the district sit outside this join.
- Do 23,191 awards mean 23,191 PA-01 Defense contractors?
- No. Award count is a row count of USAspending awards and can include continuations. It is not a census of installations, contractors, or service members. The packet does not name recipients. Mean obligation of about $251,088.95 is a quotient, not a typical published award. See Pennsylvania 1st District for stored lines.
- Can I add PA-13 Defense for a statewide Pennsylvania total?
- No. The join is awarding agency 097 crossed with PA-01 place of performance. The district-wide book on this extract is $10,280,342,470.01. Related agencies and other districts are not inside $5,823,003,844.50 unless they also carry both keys. Pennsylvania 13th District Defense is a different district tag. Do not add PA-13 into PA-01.
- Is the PA-01 DoD total already paid as contract outlays?
- Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $5,823,003,844.50 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault's extract. Draws and remaining balances are not published in this packet. Remaining balances are not in the facts.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.