Department of Defense obligations in Texas 31st District (TX-31)

The Texas 31st District (TX-31) filter on Defense

Awarding agency 097 and congressional district TX-31 meet here. $3,708,393,770.31 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Defense’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Texas 31st District (TX-31), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments. 1,160 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a base census, a troop roster, a weapons inventory, or a named-contractor file.

Dividing $3,708,393,770.31 by 1,160 yields about $3,196,891.18 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 1,160 awards is a moderate-to-thick Defense file. Unique contractors remain unpublished. Do not treat TX-31’s 097 cell as a synonym for every DoD account nationwide. Open Texas 31st District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Defense for agency 097 without the TX-31 filter, Texas federal spending for every awarding agency in the Texas extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $3,708,393,770.31.

The Department of Defense awarding-agency rollup

USAspending labels awarding agency 097 as Department of Defense. That code produced $3,708,393,770.31 when crossed with Texas 31st District (TX-31) place of performance. The agency-wide 097 hub does not require TX-31 geography. The district hub does not require DoD. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 1,160 awards. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Texas 31st District (TX-31) did not cause $3,708,393,770.31 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 097 × TX-31 only. It is not a base census, a troop roster, a weapons inventory, or a named-contractor file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.

Reading the TX-31 stamp

Texas 31st District (TX-31) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list TX-31 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Texas districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 097. Texas 31st District (TX-31) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Texas. Other Texas districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 097. Texas 31st District (TX-31) is a numbered place-of-performance geography inside Texas. Other Texas districts are not this join. The packet does not name installations.

Texas federal spending shows how agency 097 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $3,708,393,770.31 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Texas 31st District (TX-31) by county, city, or census tract. Awards that carry a different awarding-agency code stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to Department of Defense. The district-wide obligation total published here is $8,459,227,545.97; $3,708,393,770.31 is the DoD slice of that denominator.

USAspending obligations on this pair

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $3,708,393,770.31 is that kind of sum for Department of Defense inside TX-31 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $3,708,393,770.31 as given.

Texas’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 1,160-row DoD cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 1,160 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. The implied mean ($3,196,891.18) is a concentration statistic, not a typical TX-31 DoD payment.

Citing $3,708,393,770.31 without dropping a join side

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Defense (agency 097) obligated $3,708,393,770.31 on 1,160 awards coded to Texas 31st District (TX-31). Name Department of Defense and Texas 31st District (TX-31) together. Keep the obligation word. If Texas 31st District or Department of Defense has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a base census, a troop roster, a weapons inventory, or a named-contractor file. 43.8% of $8,459,227,545.97 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Row count versus dollar concentration

1,160 awards is a moderate-to-thick Defense file. Unique contractors remain unpublished. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $3,196,891.18) and the district share (43.8% of $8,459,227,545.97) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Texas 31st District and Department of Defense if the live tables moved.

Questions

How much DoD spending is coded to Texas 31st District (TX-31)?

USAspending.gov lists $3,708,393,770.31 in DoD (agency 097) obligations across 1,160 awards coded to Texas 31st District (TX-31). That pair is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Texas’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 43.8% of the district’s published total ($8,459,227,545.97). Unique recipients are unpublished.

Does $3,708,393,770.31 include every DoD program in TX-31?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments. $3,708,393,770.31 is the combined obligation sum for agency 097 inside TX-31 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. 1,160 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $3,708,393,770.31 cash already paid in Texas 31st District (TX-31)?

No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $3,708,393,770.31 as checks already cleared in Texas 31st District (TX-31) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 1,160 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

Why is the implied average $3,196,891.18 not a typical award?

The average is $3,708,393,770.31 divided by 1,160 awards, about $3,196,891.18. Thick files pull the mean down; thin files pull it up. Neither case publishes a typical instrument. Modifications add rows. Recipients are unpublished. Use the ratio only as a concentration statistic.