Department of Defense in Texas 12th District (TX-12)

How Department of Defense meets Texas 12th District (TX-12)

This page is a join: Department of Defense and Texas 12th District (TX-12). $189,997,917,229.24 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Texas’s statewide Department of Defense book, not the nationwide Department of Defense total, and not an outlay register. Texas 12th District is the district parent without this agency filter. Department of Defense is the agency parent without the TX-12 filter. Correlation is not causation.

10,245 is an award-action count. Modifications, delivery orders, and repeat vehicles add rows. Unique vendors are unpublished. Dividing $189,997,917,229.24 by 10,245 yields about $18,545,428.72 per award, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical invoice and not a jobs figure. Campaign-finance tables are a different dataset; donations do not fund these USAspending obligations.

Department of Defense as the awarding-agency side

Agency 097 is stored as Department of Defense. The awarding-agency tag does not name military departments, installations, platforms, or vendors. This packet lists none of those parties. Confusing this join with Texas statewide Defense totals or another Texas district’s Defense cell would be a different overlay. Packet facts on the agency side are the name Department of Defense, code 097, and the join dollars $189,997,917,229.24.

Any other recipient or installation list would be invented. Department of Defense drops the district filter. Other districts with Department of Defense awards are other ties. This page quotes only Texas 12th District (TX-12). District 90/98 placeholders are omitted from this harvest by design.

Texas 12th District (TX-12) as place of performance

Texas 12th District (TX-12) is a congressional place-of-performance code, not proof that every dollar stayed inside the district’s current map. Work can be tagged TX-12 while later performance occurs elsewhere. Neighboring Texas districts are other joins even when the awarding agency is also 097. Texas federal spending is the statewide parent and includes other districts.

The district’s all-agency obligation total is $192,517,062,049.40. $189,997,917,229.24 is the Department of Defense slice of that book, about 98.7%. Remaining district dollars sit with other awarding agencies on Texas 12th District, not inside this join. This packet does not split TX-12 by city, county, or installation. Place of performance is a geography field in the award file, not a payroll map of Texas 12th District (TX-12) residents.

Award count, mean, and the district-wide book

10,245 awards against $189,997,917,229.24 implies about $18,545,428.72 per award. That mean is not a unit price. With 10,245 rows, a few large instruments can dominate, or many small actions can stack. Treat the count as records in an aggregate, not as 10,245 finished projects or 10,245 unique contractors. All spending ties lists other pairs.

Readers who reuse this snapshot should keep Department of Defense and Texas 12th District (TX-12) in the same sentence, cite USAspending.gov, and treat 10,245 rows as records rather than unique vendors. A later ingest can restate $189,997,917,229.24 without changing the join key of agency 097 and district TX-12. Outlays remain unpublished on this packet.

What the Defense × TX-12 pair cannot prove

An obligation is a legal commitment. $189,997,917,229.24 is that kind of sum. This packet has no outlay total and no fiscal-year split. Citing the figure as cash already spent in Texas 12th District (TX-12) over-reads the field. Do not rank TX-12 as a winner or loser versus other districts. Keep both sides in the citation: Department of Defense and Texas 12th District (TX-12).

Parent hubs for this district-agency overlay

Open Texas 12th District for the district rollup, Department of Defense for the agency rollup, Texas federal spending for the statewide table, and All spending ties for other pairs. None of those links convert this cell into a contractor list, into outlays this packet omits, or into a statewide Defense total. Cite Department of Defense in Texas 12th District (TX-12), $189,997,917,229.24, 10,245 awards, USAspending.gov, obligations only.

Questions

How much has the Department of Defense obligated in Texas 12th District (TX-12)?

USAspending.gov records $189,997,917,229.24 in Department of Defense obligations with Texas 12th District (TX-12) place of performance across 10,245 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for the district-agency pair, not an outlay. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Does 10,245 awards mean 10,245 unique defense contractors?

No. 10,245 is an award-action count and can include modifications. Unique vendors are not published. Average obligation is about $18,545,428.72 per award, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical invoice. Keep both sides of the join in the citation.

Is this Texas’s entire Department of Defense total?

No. $189,997,917,229.24 is only the Department of Defense slice tagged to Texas 12th District (TX-12). Texas federal spending is the statewide parent. Texas 12th District includes other awarding agencies in the same district. Mixing those books into this total would overstate the join.

Where is the live Defense in Texas 12th District table?

Texas 12th District is the district parent. Department of Defense is the agency hub. Texas federal spending is the Texas parent. All spending ties lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later ingests; this page quotes Department of Defense × TX-12 at $189,997,917,229.24.