Department of Energy federal obligations in Maryland

A thin Energy file on a Maryland tag

Department of Energy as awarding agency, Maryland as place-of-performance: 411 records summing to $2,124,477,725.25. A Department of Energy award coded outside MD is out. An award in Maryland from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Maryland (MD) excludes Virginia, District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia. A Reston-coded award is VA even if a Germantown office later invoices it. NNSA, science labs, and other Energy components are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 089.

Four hundred eleven awards against $2,124,477,725.25 is a thin, high-mean Energy file. A handful of vehicles can dominate the dollar total. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 411 as 411 unique named labs, unique contractors, or megawatt capacity. The overlay Department of Energy in Maryland is the both-keys table. Maryland federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Energy is the agency book without an MD filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Germantown, Baltimore, and the I-270 corridor are unpublished. Assigning $2,124,477,725.25 to a named lab is a new extract. Correlation is not causation: Maryland did not “cause” $2,124,477,725.25 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 089 × MD only.

Not a Germantown campus or lab roster

$2,124,477,725.25 does not measure named labs, unique contractors, or megawatt capacity. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 089 and an MD place-of-performance tag. NNSA, science labs, and other Energy components are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 089.

Do not treat 411 awards as a census of named labs, unique contractors, or megawatt capacity. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Maryland federal spending or Department of Energy matched $2,124,477,725.25 and 411, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Virginia, Pennsylvania, and District of Columbia Energy joins are other pairs, not addends.

Maryland statewide, not a Beltway map

Place of performance MD is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Maryland (MD) excludes Virginia, District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia. A Reston-coded award is VA even if a Germantown office later invoices it. Recipient address can differ from that state tag. Baltimore, Rockville, Germantown, and the rest of the counties share one MD stamp.

Germantown, Baltimore, and the I-270 corridor are unpublished. Assigning $2,124,477,725.25 to a named lab is a new extract. This packet does not split $2,124,477,725.25 by city, county, or named facility. 411 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Few rows, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $2,124,477,725.25 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Maryland confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Maryland’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 411-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $2,124,477,725.25.

Citing Energy in Maryland

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Energy (agency 089) obligated $2,124,477,725.25 on 411 awards coded to Maryland. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as named labs, unique contractors, or megawatt capacity.

Prefer Department of Energy in Maryland if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Maryland federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to MD. Department of Energy is the 089 parent without the MD filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,124,477,725.25. A usable footnote names Department of Energy, Maryland, $2,124,477,725.25, and 411. The compact headline $2.12 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $5.17 million is $2,124,477,725.25 divided by 411. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Energy obligated in Maryland?

USAspending.gov records $2,124,477,725.25 across 411 awards with awarding agency 089 and a Maryland tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of named labs, unique contractors, or megawatt capacity. Department of Energy in Maryland is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,124,477,725.25.

Is $2,124,477,725.25 a measure of named labs, unique contractors, or megawatt capacity?

No. The packet publishes $2,124,477,725.25 and 411 awards for agency 089 inside MD coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this Energy file have 411 awards?

That is the award-record count for 089 × MD. Combined with $2,124,477,725.25, the average is about $5.17 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 411 is not unique named labs, unique contractors, or megawatt capacity. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live Energy–Maryland table?

Department of Energy in Maryland is the overlay. Maryland federal spending and Department of Energy are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $2,124,477,725.25. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.