Department of Defense federal obligations in South Dakota

DoD awards tagged to South Dakota

Department of Defense as awarding agency, South Dakota as place-of-performance: 3,278 records summing to $2,397,973,141.21. A Department of Defense award coded outside SD is out. An award in South Dakota from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. South Dakota (SD) excludes North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Montana, and Wyoming. A Minot-coded award is ND, not this cell. Army, Navy, Air Force, and other DoD components are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 097.

Three thousand two hundred seventy-eight awards sits in a mid-count DoD band: thicker than a thin Energy cell, thinner than a high-volume VA file. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 3,278 as 3,278 unique active-duty headcount, named installations, or unique contractors. The overlay Department of Defense in South Dakota is the both-keys table. South Dakota federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Defense is the agency book without an SD filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Ellsworth Air Force Base is ordinary speech here, not a published share of $2,397,973,141.21. Unique recipients are unpublished. Correlation is not causation: South Dakota did not “cause” $2,397,973,141.21 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 097 × SD only.

Not Ellsworth folklore or a troop roster

$2,397,973,141.21 does not measure active-duty headcount, named installations, or unique contractors. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 097 and an SD place-of-performance tag. Army, Navy, Air Force, and other DoD components are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 097.

Do not treat 3,278 awards as a census of active-duty headcount, named installations, or unique contractors. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If South Dakota federal spending or Department of Defense matched $2,397,973,141.21 and 3,278, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. North Dakota, Nebraska, and Wyoming DoD joins are other pairs, not addends.

South Dakota statewide, not a single installation

Place of performance SD is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. South Dakota (SD) excludes North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Montana, and Wyoming. A Minot-coded award is ND, not this cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag. Rapid City, Sioux Falls, and the rest of the counties share one SD stamp.

Ellsworth Air Force Base is ordinary speech here, not a published share of $2,397,973,141.21. Unique recipients are unpublished. This packet does not split $2,397,973,141.21 by city, county, or named facility. 3,278 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Award stock versus contractor invoices

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $2,397,973,141.21 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in South Dakota confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

South Dakota’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 3,278-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $2,397,973,141.21.

Citing DoD in South Dakota

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Defense (agency 097) obligated $2,397,973,141.21 on 3,278 awards coded to South Dakota. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as active-duty headcount, named installations, or unique contractors.

Prefer Department of Defense in South Dakota if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. South Dakota federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to SD. Department of Defense is the 097 parent without the SD filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,397,973,141.21. A usable footnote names Department of Defense, South Dakota, $2,397,973,141.21, and 3,278. The compact headline $2.40 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $731,535 is $2,397,973,141.21 divided by 3,278. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Defense obligated in South Dakota?

USAspending.gov records $2,397,973,141.21 across 3,278 awards with awarding agency 097 and a South Dakota tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of active-duty headcount, named installations, or unique contractors. Department of Defense in South Dakota is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,397,973,141.21.

Is $2,397,973,141.21 a measure of active-duty headcount, named installations, or unique contractors?

No. The packet publishes $2,397,973,141.21 and 3,278 awards for agency 097 inside SD coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this DoD file have 3,278 awards?

That is the award-record count for 097 × SD. Combined with $2,397,973,141.21, the average is about $731,535. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 3,278 is not unique active-duty headcount, named installations, or unique contractors. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live DoD–South Dakota table?

Department of Defense in South Dakota is the overlay. South Dakota federal spending and Department of Defense are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $2,397,973,141.21. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.