Department of Defense in Virginia 3rd District (VA-03)

Department of Defense place of performance in Virginia 3rd District (VA-03)

Place-of-performance district VA-03 plus awarding agency 097 is a bookkeeping join. 21,890 award records produced $80,192,574,722.48. 87.7% of the district parent $91,489,301,996.56 sits in this Department of Defense column. Other columns remain on the district overlay.

Virginia 3rd District (VA-03) is one of several Virginia Defense joins in this slice. VA-08 and VA-11 are other district keys with their own agency-097 cells. Do not stack those cells onto VA-03. A named shipyard roster, a base census, or the va-08/va-11 defense cells remains out of scope. Do not invent contractors or award recipients. FEC.gov contribution tables do not fund these USAspending obligations.

Reading Department of Defense beside other agencies in Virginia

Virginia federal spending at /states/va/ mixes districts and agencies. This file isolates one district and one agency. Department of Defense in Virginia 3rd District (VA-03) is $80,192,574,722.48. Statewide Department of Defense is unpublished on this packet.

Keep agency code 097 next to Department of Defense whenever the cell is quoted, especially beside other Virginia ties that use different codes.

Place of performance versus recipient headquarters

Place of performance is not the same as recipient headquarters. An award can list VA-03 as where work is performed while the recipient's legal address sits in another district or state. This packet does not publish headquarters. Quote place of performance as stored: Virginia 3rd District (VA-03).

Assistance and contracts share this rollup

Contracts and assistance can sit in the same Department of Defense × VA-03 cell. This packet does not publish a split. Do not label $80,192,574,722.48 as 'all contracts' or 'all grants.' Quote it as obligations.

Public records, not accusations

Nonpartisan reading: $80,192,574,722.48 and 21,890 are USAspending.gov numbers. They are not accusations, not endorsements, and not spending advice. Department of Defense × Virginia 3rd District (VA-03) is the pair.

Keep the source note exactly as copied from the packet. Dollar figures first, then the two keys that produced them.

Where to read the live VA-03 overlay

If Virginia 3rd District has refreshed, quote the overlay over this snapshot. Keep VA-03, agency 097, $80,192,574,722.48, and 21,890 together. Do not paste a second district's dollars into the sentence.

District stacking can raise statewide sums that this packet does not publish as one Department of Defense number. FEC.gov remains a different ledger.

Read the four internal links as parents, not as extra dollars. Virginia 3rd District is the district overlay. Department of Defense is the agency overlay. Virginia federal spending is the state mix. All spending ties is the two-key index. None of those pages should be added into $80,192,574,722.48. The harvested cell is already the overlap.

A researcher quoting this join in one sentence can use: Department of Defense, agency 097, Virginia 3rd District (VA-03), obligations $80,192,574,722.48, award records 21,890, district parent $91,489,301,996.56 (87.7% in this cell). That sentence uses only packet facts. It still names no contractors, no outlays, and no FEC receipts.

District-agency pages exist because place of performance and awarding agency are different USAspending dimensions. Department of Defense can appear in more than one district; Virginia 3rd District (VA-03) can contain many agencies. This file isolates one pair. A high award-record count on a Defense district cell usually means modifications and repeat instruments, not a published unique-vendor census. This packet does not name primes. Virginia statewide Defense is a parent.

Keep nonpartisan language when the district or agency name appears in political coverage. Virginia 3rd District (VA-03) is a stored geography key. Department of Defense is a stored toptier. Together they produced $80,192,574,722.48 on USAspending.gov. That is the relationship this page exists to explain.

Questions

How much Department of Defense spending is coded to Virginia 3rd District (VA-03)?

USAspending.gov lists $80,192,574,722.48 in Department of Defense obligations across 21,890 Virginia 3rd District (VA-03)-coded awards (agency 097). That cell is 87.7% of the district's $91,489,301,996.56 all-agency total. It is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.

Is $80,192,574,722.48 all federal spending in VA-03?

No. $91,489,301,996.56 is Virginia 3rd District (VA-03)'s all-agency obligation total in this packet. Department of Defense is 87.7% of that parent. Other awarding agencies remain on the district hub. Do not add the district parent into this Department of Defense cell.

Do 21,890 awards mean 21,890 unique contractors in VA-03?

No. 21,890 is an award-record count for Department of Defense in Virginia 3rd District (VA-03), not unique vendors. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. This packet names no contractors or award recipients. Implied mean about $3.66 million is two facts divided.

Did FEC donations fund this Department of Defense total in VA-03?

No. $80,192,574,722.48 is a USAspending.gov obligation aggregate. FEC contribution tables are a different dataset and do not fund these awards. Outlays are unpublished. Cite Department of Defense and Virginia 3rd District (VA-03) together as a place-of-performance join.