Department of Defense federal obligations in Texas (agency 097)

What the Defense–Texas join is

Awarding agency 097 and place-of-performance state TX meet here. $435,893,633,498 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not DoD’s worldwide total, not Texas’s entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. It is a filter on a public awards table. Installation and aerospace folklore may send a reader here; those stories are not packet NAICS.

406,935 is a large action count. Modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique vendors are not published here. Dividing $435,893,633,498 by 406,935 yields about $1,071,163 per award on average. The join does not rank Texas against other states.

Open Department of Defense in Texas for the filtered table, Texas federal spending for all agencies, Department of Defense for agency 097 nationwide, and All spending ties for other pairs.

Agency 097 as the awarding side

USAspending labels awarding agency 097 as Department of Defense. That code produced $435,893,633,498 when crossed with Texas place of performance. The agency-wide 097 page does not require TX geography. The Texas hub does not require Defense. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 406,935 awards.

A second Defense slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. The codes are the same filter; the geography is not. Do not treat Texas’s 097 total as a synonym for every DoD account.

Place of performance in Texas

Texas on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to Texas residents. Awards can list TX while later work occurs in Oklahoma, New Mexico, or elsewhere. Defense awards coded to those states do not sit in $435,893,633,498 even if the vendor’s mailroom is in Fort Worth.

Base and depot concentration in Texas is a coding fact, not a finding about readiness. The Texas federal spending hub shows how agency 097 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same geography. This packet does not split San Antonio from Dallas.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. $435,893,633,498 is that kind of sum. Outlays can lag or never fully match if an award is de-obligated. This packet has no outlay total and no fiscal-year split. Citing the figure as cash already spent in Texas over-reads the field.

Award count 406,935 is a record count, not a payment count and not a unique-contractor census. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Texas–Defense overlay.

What this pair does not prove

A large Defense total in Texas does not mean the agency caused Texas’s contractor mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between installations and award dollars is expected; it is not a finding about waste or effectiveness.

Keep $435,893,633,498 labeled as agency 097 obligations with Texas place of performance. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

How to cite the Texas–Defense pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense), Texas place of performance, $435,893,633,498 in obligations, and 406,935 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $435,893,633,498 cash outlays.

Department of Defense in Texas, Texas federal spending, Department of Defense, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $435,893,633,498 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Metro folklore is not a packet split; 406,935 awards stay statewide. Installation names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Do not rank Texas as more militarized because Defense dollars are large. Readiness is not a field in this packet. A high award-action count is still a record count, including modifications. Keep the obligation label in every reuse.

Questions

How much has the Defense Department obligated in Texas?

USAspending.gov records $435,893,633,498 in obligations for awarding agency 097 with Texas place of performance, covering 406,935 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not DoD’s nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Does $435.9 billion mean DoD spent that much in Texas?

No. The figure is obligations on awards tagged to agency 097 and Texas place of performance. Outlays can differ. Place of performance is a geography field, not proof that every dollar was disbursed to Texas vendors or residents. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Why is Texas’s Defense award count so high?

The extract lists 406,935 award actions totaling $435,893,633,498. The figure is a record count, including modifications and repeat actions, not a unique-contractor census. This packet does not explain the row volume beyond that definition. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Defense–Texas table?

Department of Defense in Texas is the overlay. Texas federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Defense shows agency 097 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.