Department of Defense in Wisconsin 6th District (WI-06)
The Defense × WI-06 cell on USAspending.gov is $8,849,224,943.67 in obligations across 37,556 awards. Thirty-seven thousand five hundred fifty-six Defense-coded awards equal about fifty-eight percent of WI-06's district obligation total, a mass-action Wisconsin Defense file whose implied mean is pulled down by volume. That pair is Department of Defense and Wisconsin 6th District (WI-06) — not Wisconsin's entire federal inflow, not Department of Defense nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 58.4% of this district's published obligation total ($15,164,458,990.70). Implied average obligation is about $235,627.46 ($8,849,224,943.67 ÷ 37,556). Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- Defense in Wisconsin 6th District (WI-06): $8,849,224,943.67 across 37,556 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $235,627.46 per record; district share 58.4% of $15,164,458,990.70.
- Agency 097 × WI-06 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote Wisconsin 6th District and Department of Defense if live tables moved.
- Wisconsin federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $8,849,224,943.67.
A place-of-performance join: Defense × WI-06
Awarding agency 097 and congressional district WI-06 meet here. $8,849,224,943.67 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Defense's nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Wisconsin 6th District (WI-06), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments. 37,556 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. This cell is not an installation map, a platform catalog, or a named-contractor file.
Dividing $8,849,224,943.67 by 37,556 yields about $235,627.46 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 37,556 rows is a mass-action Defense file. Orders and modifications multiply lines. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not treat WI-06's 097 cell as a synonym for every Defense account nationwide. Open Wisconsin 6th District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Defense for agency 097 without a WI-06 filter, Wisconsin federal spending for every awarding agency in the Wisconsin extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $8,849,224,943.67.
Department of Defense as awarding agency, not as a named-vendor list
USAspending labels awarding agency 097 as Department of Defense. That code produced $8,849,224,943.67 when crossed with Wisconsin 6th District (WI-06) place of performance. The agency-wide 097 hub does not require WI-06 geography. The district hub does not require Defense. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 37,556 awards. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments.
Correlation is not causation: Wisconsin 6th District (WI-06) did not cause $8,849,224,943.67 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 097 × WI-06 only. This cell is not an installation map, a platform catalog, or a named-contractor file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.
Place of performance for Wisconsin 6th District (WI-06)
Wisconsin 6th District (WI-06) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list WI-06 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Wisconsin districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 097. Wisconsin 6th District (WI-06) is a numbered place-of-performance geography inside Wisconsin. Other Wisconsin districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 097.
Obligation math for this join
USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $8,849,224,943.67 is that kind of sum for Department of Defense inside WI-06 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $8,849,224,943.67 as given.
Wisconsin's own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 37,556-row Defense cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 37,556 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. The implied mean ($235,627.46) is a concentration statistic, not a typical WI-06 Defense payment.
What a complete citation includes
Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Defense (agency 097) obligated $8,849,224,943.67 on 37,556 awards coded to Wisconsin 6th District (WI-06). Name Department of Defense and Wisconsin 6th District (WI-06) together. Keep the obligation word. If Wisconsin 6th District or Department of Defense has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not an installation map, a platform catalog, or a named-contractor file. 58.4% of $15,164,458,990.70 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.
Using 58.4% and $235,627.46 without overclaiming
37,556 rows is a mass-action Defense file. Orders and modifications multiply lines. Unique recipients are unpublished. A thick row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still publishes one Defense rollup. Other Defense district cells are not addends. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $235,627.46) and the district share (58.4% of $15,164,458,990.70) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Wisconsin 6th District and Department of Defense if the live tables moved.
Do not rank Wisconsin 6th District (WI-06) as more Defense-dependent than neighboring districts on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 097 ties with different dollar totals, or no published 097 cell in this harvest. This snapshot holds $8,849,224,943.67 and 37,556 only. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.
Questions
- How much Defense spending is coded to Wisconsin 6th District (WI-06)?
- USAspending.gov lists $8,849,224,943.67 in Department of Defense obligations across 37,556 awards with place of performance in Wisconsin 6th District (WI-06). Agency 097 × WI-06 is an obligation join, not an outlay. The cell is 58.4% of the district total ($15,164,458,990.70). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $235,627.46, a ratio only.
- Does $8,849,224,943.67 include every Defense program in WI-06?
- The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split military departments or contract versus assistance instruments. $8,849,224,943.67 is the combined obligation sum for agency 097 inside WI-06. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Defense and Wisconsin 6th District for parent tables. 37,556 remains an action count, not a program count.
- Is $8,849,224,943.67 cash already paid in Wisconsin 6th District (WI-06)?
- No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays are a different concept and are not this packet's headline. Treating $8,849,224,943.67 as checks already cleared in Wisconsin 6th District (WI-06) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 37,556 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
- Is Wisconsin 6th District (WI-06) ranked against other Wisconsin districts here?
- No. This page does not rank Wisconsin 6th District (WI-06) as a winner or loser. $8,849,224,943.67 and 37,556 describe one join. Neighboring districts have their own cells. District 90/98 placeholders are omitted. Cite Department of Defense and Wisconsin 6th District (WI-06) together.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.