Department of Defense obligations in Texas 21st District (TX-21)

DoD × TX-21 is not Defense in TX-10, TX-24, or TX-23

Texas 21st District (TX-21) is the fourth Texas Defense geography in this slice. Matching agency codes across TX-10, TX-24, TX-23, and TX-21 are four joins, not one statewide Defense total. FEC filings and USAspending awards remain different datasets. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $4,392,886,300.47 on 3,931 awards for awarding agency 097 with Texas 21st District (TX-21) 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 3,931 awards equal 3,931 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 $4,392,886,300.47 unless those awards also carry agency 097 and TX-21 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 TX-21 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $4,392,886,300.47 in a district treasury. Do not add the four Texas Defense cells in this slice and call the sum Texas. That statewide figure is not this packet.

3,931 Defense awards in Texas 21st District

Three thousand nine hundred thirty-one DoD awards is a thick-middle file, between TX-24 and TX-23 in row count. Mean obligation is about $1,117,498.42 if $4,392,886,300.47 were divided evenly across 3,931 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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 Texas 21st District for the stored district table and Department of Defense for the national agency shelf. Do not convert 3,931 into a map of installations, contractors, or service members inside Texas 21st District. The $4,392,886,300.47 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on USAspending.gov rather than inferring an inventory.

TX-21 DoD obligations are 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 $4,392,886,300.47 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 $4,392,886,300.47 into a yearly run rate.

Keep the obligation word on $4,392,886,300.47. Keep both Department of Defense and Texas 21st District (TX-21) 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 Texas 21st District Defense extract omits

The extract has no roster of installations, contractors, or service members. Facts remain $4,392,886,300.47, 3,931 awards, agency 097 (Department of Defense), Texas 21st District (TX-21), and a district-wide book of $8,835,466,247.05. This page will not invent a contractor league table. Sibling district-agency joins are separate obligation totals, not a better or worse score.

Texas 21st District places TX-21 among other congressional districts. Department of Defense places agency 097 among other awarding agencies. Texas federal spending is the statewide shelf. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Mixing those shelves would invent a share of Texas spending or of Department of Defense's national book the packet never computed. The $4,392,886,300.47 figure is the tagged pair only. Do not add the four Texas Defense cells in this slice and call the sum Texas. That statewide figure is not this packet.

Citing Department of Defense in TX-21

A clean footnote names Department of Defense (agency 097), Texas 21st District (TX-21), $4,392,886,300.47 in obligations, and 3,931 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not relabel 3,931 as a census of installations, contractors, or service members. Quote the district overlay if you need every awarding agency in TX-21, and quote the agency page if you need Department of Defense without a district filter. About 49.7% of the $8,835,466,247.05 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 TX-21. The headline $4,392,886,300.47 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 Texas 21st 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 Texas 21st District?

USAspending.gov shows $4,392,886,300.47 in obligations for Department of Defense (agency 097) with Texas 21st District (TX-21) as place of performance, across 3,931 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 3,931 awards mean 3,931 TX-21 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 $1,117,498.42 is a quotient, not a typical published award. See Texas 21st District for stored lines.

Is this the same join as Defense in other Texas districts?

No. The join is awarding agency 097 crossed with TX-21 place of performance. The district-wide book on this extract is $8,835,466,247.05. Related agencies and other districts are not inside $4,392,886,300.47 unless they also carry both keys. Do not add the four Texas Defense cells in this slice and call the sum Texas. That statewide figure is not this packet.

Is the TX-21 DoD total already disbursed?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $4,392,886,300.47 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.