Department of Defense in Virginia 11th District (VA-11)
Awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) crossed with Virginia 11th District (VA-11) yields $69,865,912,391.58 across 33,475 awards. 33,475 awards against $69,865,912,391.58 is a thick action file. Repeat awards and modifications add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Implied mean about $2.09 million is not a typical invoice. Virginia 11th District (VA-11) is not Virginia 3rd and not Virginia 8th. This slice stores separate Defense cells for those district keys. Agency 097 is shared; the geography keys are not. Do not add VA-03 or VA-08 into VA-11. Cite USAspending.gov. The join is not the VA-03 or VA-08 Defense cells, a named contractor list, or Northern Virginia as a metro total.
Key figures
- Department of Defense in Virginia 11th District (VA-11): $69,865,912,391.58 across 33,475 USAspending awards (agency 097).
- That cell is 51.4% of the district's $135,818,189,140.10 all-agency total.
- Implied mean about $2.09 million per record, not a typical award size.
- Agency 097 × VA-11 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a vendor list.
- FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell; source is USAspending.gov.
The Department of Defense × VA-11 join
SpendingVault stores awarding agencies separately from congressional-district place of performance. Crossing Department of Defense (097) with Virginia 11th District (VA-11) yields $69,865,912,391.58. Award count 33,475. The figure is an obligation sum, not an outlay and not a named-vendor list.
Virginia 11th District (VA-11) is not Virginia 3rd and not Virginia 8th. This slice stores separate Defense cells for those district keys. Agency 097 is shared; the geography keys are not. Do not add VA-03 or VA-08 into VA-11. Unique recipients are unpublished. Modifications can add award rows without proving 33,475 unique vendors. Dropping either filter changes the story. Drop the district and you see agency 097 nationwide. Drop the agency and you see $135,818,189,140.10 on the district hub. This page holds both filters at once.
What agency 097 contributes to this VA-11 cell
$135,818,189,140.10 is Virginia 11th District (VA-11)'s packet-wide obligation total across awarding agencies in this extract. $69,865,912,391.58 is the Department of Defense slice. Subtracting is tempting; this page still does not publish the leftover agency list.
Do not treat $135,818,189,140.10 as cash already paid. It is an obligation parent, not an outlay parent. The same warning applies to $69,865,912,391.58. Defense is a large slice of this district book in the packet, not the entire district inflow. The leftover sits with other awarding agencies on the district hub. Named contractors remain unpublished.
What Virginia 11th District includes and excludes
Virginia 11th District is the stored district title. At-large seats use district 00; numbered seats use the two-digit district as stored. Placeholders 90 and 98 are omitted from this extract. Virginia 11th District (VA-11) is the geography that remains.
Recipient UEI, city, and fiscal year are unpublished on this packet. Do not invent them. Obligations $69,865,912,391.58 and awards 33,475 remain the volume facts.
Why outlays are the wrong word here
The voice constraint is obligations, not outlays. Repeat it when citing $69,865,912,391.58. Department of Defense × Virginia 11th District (VA-11) is still a commitment join. Virginia 11th District (VA-11) is not Virginia 3rd and not Virginia 8th. This slice stores separate Defense cells for those district keys. Agency 097 is shared; the geography keys are not. Do not add VA-03 or VA-08 into VA-11.
Later ingests can revise 33,475 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.
Missing fields and sibling districts
The packet publishes agency code 097, agency name Department of Defense, district VA-11, district label Virginia 11th District, state Virginia, cell obligations $69,865,912,391.58, award count 33,475, and district total $135,818,189,140.10. Fiscal year, recipients, and outlays are unpublished.
Inventing a FY label or a contractor list would violate the packet contract. Virginia 11th District (VA-11) is not Virginia 3rd and not Virginia 8th. This slice stores separate Defense cells for those district keys. Agency 097 is shared; the geography keys are not. Do not add VA-03 or VA-08 into VA-11.
Using the district and agency hubs without mixing them
The district hub answers every-agency questions for VA-11. The agency hub answers every-geography questions for 097. This tie answers both-filters: $69,865,912,391.58 across 33,475 awards.
Virginia 11th District (VA-11) is not Virginia 3rd and not Virginia 8th. This slice stores separate Defense cells for those district keys. Agency 097 is shared; the geography keys are not. Do not add VA-03 or VA-08 into VA-11. Do not add the two parents to this cell. Sharing a district with Department of Defense does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays.
Questions
- How much Department of Defense spending is coded to Virginia 11th District (VA-11)?
- USAspending.gov lists $69,865,912,391.58 in Department of Defense obligations across 33,475 Virginia 11th District (VA-11)-coded awards (agency 097). That cell is 51.4% of the district's $135,818,189,140.10 all-agency total. It is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Is $69,865,912,391.58 all federal spending in VA-11?
- No. $135,818,189,140.10 is Virginia 11th District (VA-11)'s all-agency obligation total in this packet. Department of Defense is 51.4% of that parent. Other awarding agencies remain on the district hub. Do not add the district parent into this Department of Defense cell.
- Do 33,475 awards mean 33,475 unique contractors in VA-11?
- No. 33,475 is an award-record count for Department of Defense in Virginia 11th District (VA-11), not unique vendors. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. This packet names no contractors or award recipients. Implied mean about $2.09 million is two facts divided.
- Did FEC donations fund this Department of Defense total in VA-11?
- No. $69,865,912,391.58 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 11th District (VA-11) together as a place-of-performance join.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.