Department of Defense in Virginia 8th District (VA-08)

Why agency 097 and VA-08 share a page

Department of Defense pages without a district mix every geography. District pages without agency 097 mix every awarding agency. The overlap is $41,501,796,967.90 across 9,365 awards — 43.1% of $96,192,518,081.34. 9,365 awards against $41,501,796,967.90 is a thick action file. Repeat awards and modifications add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Implied mean about $4.43 million is not a typical invoice.

Virginia 8th District (VA-08) is the geography as stored. Neighboring districts are other keys. The va-03 or va-11 defense cells, a named contractor list, or the va-07 veterans affairs cell would be a different dataset or a different pair. Northern Virginia office-location stories are not packet facts. Place of performance remains VA-08. Named primes and Pentagon-adjacent vendors are unpublished.

Department of Defense without mixing other awarding agencies

Agency 097 is the only awarding-agency identifier on this page. Other agencies that award in Virginia 8th District (VA-08) keep their own codes and their own ties. Do not add them to $41,501,796,967.90.

Virginia 8th District (VA-08) sits beside VA-03 and VA-11 Defense joins and a VA-07 Veterans Affairs join in this slice. Those are other district keys and, for VA-07, another awarding agency (036). Do not stack them. $96,192,518,081.34 is the Virginia 8th District (VA-08) parent in this packet, about 43.1% of which sits in Department of Defense by arithmetic on the two dollar facts.

District VA-08 without merging neighbors

Neighboring district numbers are other keys when the VA-08 digits differ. This file uses VA-08 only. Merging districts would invent a super-district the packet does not define. Northern Virginia office-location stories are not packet facts. Place of performance remains VA-08. Named primes and Pentagon-adjacent vendors are unpublished.

Commitments versus cash paid

Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet's headline. Treating $41,501,796,967.90 as checks already cleared in Virginia 8th District (VA-08) confuses those terms.

Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-recipient the dollar total; unique recipients are unpublished. Mean about $4.43 million uses 9,365 award records as the denominator.

Correlation is not causation

Department of Defense did not cause $41,501,796,967.90 by existing, and Virginia 8th District (VA-08) did not cause Department of Defense to award. The join reports overlap. 9,365 awards against $41,501,796,967.90 is a thick action file. Repeat awards and modifications add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Implied mean about $4.43 million is not a typical invoice.

Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 097 × VA-08 only. Northern Virginia office-location stories are not packet facts. Place of performance remains VA-08. Named primes and Pentagon-adjacent vendors are unpublished.

Related tables

Open /districts/VA-08/ for Virginia 8th District (VA-08) without an Department of Defense filter. Open /agencies/097/ for Department of Defense without a VA-08 filter. Open /states/va/ for Virginia and /ties/ for other joins. Quote those hubs as parents.

Repeat the join without adding fields the packet does not publish. Unique recipients stay unpublished. Outlays stay unpublished.

Read the four internal links as parents, not as extra dollars. Virginia 8th 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 $41,501,796,967.90. The harvested cell is already the overlap.

A researcher quoting this join in one sentence can use: Department of Defense, agency 097, Virginia 8th District (VA-08), obligations $41,501,796,967.90, award records 9,365, district parent $96,192,518,081.34 (43.1% in this cell). That sentence uses only packet facts. It still names no contractors, no outlays, and no FEC receipts.

Questions

How much Department of Defense spending is coded to Virginia 8th District (VA-08)?

USAspending.gov lists $41,501,796,967.90 in Department of Defense obligations across 9,365 Virginia 8th District (VA-08)-coded awards (agency 097). That cell is 43.1% of the district's $96,192,518,081.34 all-agency total. It is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.

Is $41,501,796,967.90 all federal spending in VA-08?

No. $96,192,518,081.34 is Virginia 8th District (VA-08)'s all-agency obligation total in this packet. Department of Defense is 43.1% of that parent. Other awarding agencies remain on the district hub. Do not add the district parent into this Department of Defense cell.

Do 9,365 awards mean 9,365 unique contractors in VA-08?

No. 9,365 is an award-record count for Department of Defense in Virginia 8th District (VA-08), not unique vendors. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. This packet names no contractors or award recipients. Implied mean about $4.43 million is two facts divided.

Did FEC donations fund this Department of Defense total in VA-08?

No. $41,501,796,967.90 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 8th District (VA-08) together as a place-of-performance join.