Department of Defense federal obligations in Virginia (agency 097)

What the Defense–Virginia join is

Awarding agency 097 and place-of-performance state VA meet here. $295,184,891,806 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not DoD’s worldwide total, not Virginia’s entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Pentagon and Norfolk folklore may send a reader here; those stories are not packet NAICS.

625,572 is an unusually large action count. Modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique vendors are not published here. Dividing $295,184,891,806 by 625,572 yields about $471,864 per award on average. A dense row file is not a unique-contractor boom unless the overlay says so.

Open Department of Defense in Virginia for the filtered table, Virginia federal spending for all agencies, Department of Defense for agency 097 nationwide, and All spending ties for other pairs.

Agency 097 as the awarding side

USAspending labels awarding agency 097 as Department of Defense. That code produced $295,184,891,806 when crossed with Virginia place of performance. The agency-wide 097 page does not require VA geography. The Virginia hub does not require Defense. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 625,572 awards.

A second Defense slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Virginia’s 097 total as a synonym for every DoD account.

Place of performance in Virginia

Virginia on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to Virginia residents. Awards can list VA while later work occurs in Maryland, the District, or elsewhere. Defense awards coded to those jurisdictions do not sit in $295,184,891,806 even if the vendor’s mailroom is in Arlington.

Headquarters and shipyard concentration in Virginia is a coding fact, not a finding about readiness. The Virginia federal spending hub shows how agency 097 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same geography. This packet does not split Northern Virginia from Hampton Roads.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. $295,184,891,806 is that kind of sum. Outlays can lag. This packet has no outlay total and no fiscal-year split. Citing the figure as cash already spent in Virginia over-reads the field.

Award count 625,572 is a record count, not a payment count and not a unique-contractor census. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Virginia–Defense overlay.

What this pair does not prove

A large Defense total in Virginia does not mean the agency caused Virginia’s contractor mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between capital-region geography and defense awards is expected; it is not a finding about waste or effectiveness.

Keep $295,184,891,806 labeled as agency 097 obligations with Virginia place of performance. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

How to cite the Virginia–Defense pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense), Virginia place of performance, $295,184,891,806 in obligations, and 625,572 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $295,184,891,806 cash outlays.

Department of Defense in Virginia, Virginia federal spending, Department of Defense, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $295,184,891,806 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Northern Virginia versus Hampton Roads is not a packet split; awards stay statewide. A high award-action count is still a record count, including modifications. Do not rank Virginia as more militarized because Defense dollars are large. Readiness is not a field in this packet. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.

Arlington-versus-Norfolk folklore is not a metro split in this packet. A later USAspending ingest can restate the dollar total without changing the join key of agency 097 and VA. Installation names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars.

Questions

How much has the Defense Department obligated in Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $295,184,891,806 in obligations for awarding agency 097 with Virginia place of performance, covering 625,572 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not DoD’s nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Does $295.2 billion mean DoD spent that much in Virginia?

No. The figure is obligations on awards tagged to agency 097 and Virginia place of performance. Outlays can differ. Place of performance is a geography field, not proof that every dollar was disbursed to Virginia vendors or residents. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Why is Virginia’s Defense award count so high?

The extract lists 625,572 award actions totaling $295,184,891,806. The figure is a record count, including modifications and repeat actions, not a unique-contractor census. This packet does not explain the row volume beyond that definition. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Defense–Virginia table?

Department of Defense in Virginia is the overlay. Virginia federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Defense shows agency 097 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.