Department of Defense in Washington 7th District (WA-07)

Why agency 097 and WA-07 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 $71,229,505,087.51 across 38,862 awards — 84.6% of $84,208,106,524.58. 38,862 awards against $71,229,505,087.51 is a thick action file. Repeat awards and modifications add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Implied mean about $1.83 million is not a typical invoice.

Washington 7th District (WA-07) is the geography as stored. Neighboring districts are other keys. The wa-04 energy cell, a named shipyard roster, or washington statewide defense would be a different dataset or a different pair. A thick award-record file on WA-07 Defense is still an action count, not unique vendors. Seattle-area labels are unpublished. Place of performance remains the congressional-district tag WA-07.

Department of Defense without mixing other awarding agencies

Agency 097 is the only awarding-agency identifier on this page. Other agencies that award in Washington 7th District (WA-07) keep their own codes and their own ties. Do not add them to $71,229,505,087.51.

Washington 7th District (WA-07) is a Defense (097) join. Washington 4th District in this slice is an Energy (089) join. Different districts and different agencies. Do not merge WA-07 Defense with WA-04 Energy. $84,208,106,524.58 is the Washington 7th District (WA-07) parent in this packet, about 84.6% of which sits in Department of Defense by arithmetic on the two dollar facts.

District WA-07 without merging neighbors

Neighboring district numbers are other keys when the WA-07 digits differ. This file uses WA-07 only. Merging districts would invent a super-district the packet does not define. A thick award-record file on WA-07 Defense is still an action count, not unique vendors. Seattle-area labels are unpublished. Place of performance remains the congressional-district tag WA-07.

Commitments versus cash paid

Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet's headline. Treating $71,229,505,087.51 as checks already cleared in Washington 7th District (WA-07) 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 Do not per-recipient the dollar total; unique recipients are unpublished.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 $1.83 million uses 38,862 award records as the denominator.

Correlation is not causation

Department of Defense did not cause $71,229,505,087.51 by existing, and Washington 7th District (WA-07) did not cause Department of Defense to award. The join reports overlap. 38,862 awards against $71,229,505,087.51 is a thick action file. Repeat awards and modifications add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Implied mean about $1.83 million is not a typical invoice.

Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 097 × WA-07 only. A thick award-record file on WA-07 Defense is still an action count, not unique vendors. Seattle-area labels are unpublished. Place of performance remains the congressional-district tag WA-07.

Related tables

Open /districts/WA-07/ for Washington 7th District (WA-07) without an Department of Defense filter. Open /agencies/097/ for Department of Defense without a WA-07 filter. Open /states/wa/ for Washington 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. Washington 7th District is the district overlay. Department of Defense is the agency overlay. Washington federal spending is the state mix. All spending ties is the two-key index. None of those pages should be added into $71,229,505,087.51. The harvested cell is already the overlap.

A researcher quoting this join in one sentence can use: Department of Defense, agency 097, Washington 7th District (WA-07), obligations $71,229,505,087.51, award records 38,862, district parent $84,208,106,524.58 (84.6% 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 Washington 7th District (WA-07)?

USAspending.gov lists $71,229,505,087.51 in Department of Defense obligations across 38,862 Washington 7th District (WA-07)-coded awards (agency 097). That cell is 84.6% of the district's $84,208,106,524.58 all-agency total. It is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.

Is $71,229,505,087.51 all federal spending in WA-07?

No. $84,208,106,524.58 is Washington 7th District (WA-07)'s all-agency obligation total in this packet. Department of Defense is 84.6% of that parent. Other awarding agencies remain on the district hub. Do not add the district parent into this Department of Defense cell.

Do 38,862 awards mean 38,862 unique contractors in WA-07?

No. 38,862 is an award-record count for Department of Defense in Washington 7th District (WA-07), not unique vendors. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. This packet names no contractors or award recipients. Implied mean about $1.83 million is two facts divided.

Did FEC donations fund this Department of Defense total in WA-07?

No. $71,229,505,087.51 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 Washington 7th District (WA-07) together as a place-of-performance join.