Department of Defense obligations in Utah 1st District (UT-01)
Place-of-performance UT-01 crossed with Department of Defense (agency 097) yields $22,572,733,138.61 in USAspending.gov obligations on 2,865 awards. Two thousand eight hundred sixty-five Defense-coded awards cover about two-thirds of UT-01’s district obligation total, a different Utah pair from the Treasury × UT-02 cell. That pair is Department of Defense and Utah 1st District (UT-01) — not Utah’s entire federal inflow, not Department of Defense nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 65.5% of this district’s published obligation total ($34,469,542,969.76). Implied average obligation is about $7,878,789.93 ($22,572,733,138.61 ÷ 2,865). Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- Defense in Utah 1st District (UT-01): $22,572,733,138.61 across 2,865 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $7,878,789.93 per record; district share 65.5% of $34,469,542,969.76.
- Agency 097 × UT-01 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote Utah 1st District and Department of Defense if live tables moved.
- Utah federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $22,572,733,138.61.
The Utah 1st District (UT-01) filter on Defense
Awarding agency 097 and congressional district UT-01 meet here. $22,572,733,138.61 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 Utah 1st District (UT-01), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split DoD components or contract versus assistance instruments. 2,865 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a base census, a weapons inventory, or a named-contractor file.
Dividing $22,572,733,138.61 by 2,865 yields about $7,878,789.93 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 2,865 awards is a thick Defense file. The implied mean is a ratio of two packet facts, not a posted contract vehicle. Do not treat UT-01’s 097 cell as a synonym for every Defense account nationwide. Open Utah 1st District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Defense for agency 097 without the UT-01 filter, Utah federal spending for every awarding agency in the Utah extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $22,572,733,138.61.
The Department of Defense awarding-agency rollup
USAspending labels awarding agency 097 as Department of Defense. That code produced $22,572,733,138.61 when crossed with Utah 1st District (UT-01) place of performance. The agency-wide 097 hub does not require UT-01 geography. The district hub does not require Defense. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 2,865 awards. The packet does not split DoD components or contract versus assistance instruments.
Correlation is not causation: Utah 1st District (UT-01) did not “cause” $22,572,733,138.61 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 097 × UT-01 only. It is not a base census, 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 UT-01 stamp
Utah 1st District (UT-01) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list UT-01 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Utah districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 097. Utah 1st District (UT-01) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Utah. Other Utah districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 097. Utah 1st District (UT-01) is not Utah 2nd District. Defense in UT-01 is a different join from Treasury in UT-02. Do not fold those Utah pairs together.
Utah federal spending shows how agency 097 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $22,572,733,138.61 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Utah 1st District (UT-01) 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 $34,469,542,969.76; $22,572,733,138.61 is the Defense slice of that denominator.
USAspending obligations on this pair
USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $22,572,733,138.61 is that kind of sum for Department of Defense inside UT-01 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 $22,572,733,138.61 as given.
Utah’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 2,865-row Defense cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 2,865 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 ($7,878,789.93) is a concentration statistic, not a typical UT-01 Defense payment.
Citing $22,572,733,138.61 without dropping a join side
Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Defense (agency 097) obligated $22,572,733,138.61 on 2,865 awards coded to Utah 1st District (UT-01). Name Department of Defense and Utah 1st District (UT-01) together. Keep the obligation word. If Utah 1st 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 weapons inventory, or a named-contractor file. 65.5% of $34,469,542,969.76 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.
Row count versus dollar concentration
2,865 awards is a thick Defense file. The implied mean is a ratio of two packet facts, not a posted contract vehicle. 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 $7,878,789.93) and the district share (65.5% of $34,469,542,969.76) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Utah 1st District and Department of Defense if the live tables moved.
Questions
- How much Defense spending is coded to Utah 1st District (UT-01)?
- USAspending.gov lists $22,572,733,138.61 in Department of Defense obligations across 2,865 awards with place of performance in Utah 1st District (UT-01). Agency 097 × UT-01 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Utah’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 65.5% of the district’s published total ($34,469,542,969.76). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $7,878,789.93, a ratio of those two facts only.
- Does $22,572,733,138.61 include every Defense program in UT-01?
- The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split DoD components or contract versus assistance instruments. $22,572,733,138.61 is the combined obligation sum for agency 097 inside UT-01 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Defense and Utah 1st District to inspect parent tables. 2,865 remains an action count, not a program count.
- Is $22,572,733,138.61 cash already paid in Utah 1st District (UT-01)?
- 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 $22,572,733,138.61 as checks already cleared in Utah 1st District (UT-01) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 2,865 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
- Why is the implied average $7,878,789.93 not a typical award?
- The average is $22,572,733,138.61 divided by 2,865 awards, about $7,878,789.93. 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.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.