Department of Energy federal obligations in New Mexico (agency 089)

What the Energy–New Mexico join is

Awarding agency 089 and place-of-performance state NM meet here. $186,196,163,389 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not DOE’s nationwide budget, not New Mexico’s entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. National-lab folklore may send a reader here; those stories are not packet NAICS.

424 is a very modest action count beside $186.2 billion in commitments. A few large awards can dominate a dollar total even when the row count looks tiny. The join does not rank New Mexico against other states and does not name the laboratories inside the extract.

Open Department of Energy in New Mexico for the filtered table, New Mexico federal spending for all agencies, Department of Energy for agency 089 nationwide, and All spending ties for other pairs.

A short award list next to a large dollar total

Dividing $186,196,163,389 by 424 yields about $439,141,895 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical Los Alamos line and not a typical Sandia line — those names are not packet fields. Repeat awards and modifications still add rows; 424 is not a unique-recipient census.

Lab folklore may explain why a reader opens this pair. Those stories are not packet NAICS. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative’s extra columns.

Agency 089 without a New Mexico overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Department of Energy page aggregates 089 without requiring NM geography. The New Mexico federal spending page aggregates all agencies with New Mexico place of performance. Only /states/nm/agencies/089/ applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 424 awards and $186,196,163,389.

Place of performance in New Mexico is a USAspending geography field. Work can occur elsewhere after obligation. DOE awards coded to California, Texas, or another state do not sit in this total even if the policy shop sits in Albuquerque.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $186,196,163,389 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in New Mexico over-reads the field.

Award count 424 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the New Mexico–Energy overlay.

What this pair does not prove

A large Energy total in New Mexico does not mean the agency caused New Mexico’s lab mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between laboratory geography and DOE awards is expected; it is not a finding about waste or weapons policy.

Keep $186,196,163,389 labeled as agency 089 obligations with New Mexico place of performance. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

How to cite the New Mexico–Energy pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 089 (Department of Energy), New Mexico place of performance, $186,196,163,389 in obligations, and 424 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $186,196,163,389 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $439,141,895 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical lab contract.

Department of Energy in New Mexico, New Mexico federal spending, Department of Energy, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $186,196,163,389 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Los Alamos-versus-Albuquerque folklore is not a metro split; awards stay statewide. A short award list is still a record count, including modifications. Lab names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.

Santa Fe-versus-Albuquerque 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 089 and NM. Do not treat a short award list as a unique-lab census. Unique recipients are not published here.

Questions

How much has the Energy Department obligated in New Mexico?

USAspending.gov records $186,196,163,389 in obligations for awarding agency 089 with New Mexico place of performance, covering 424 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not DOE’s nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Why are there so few DOE awards in New Mexico relative to the dollars?

The extract lists 424 award actions totaling $186,196,163,389. A short row list can still hold a large dollar total if a few awards dominate. Average obligation per award is about $439,141,895, a ratio, not a typical lab contract. Unique recipients are not published here.

Does place of performance mean the money stayed in New Mexico?

No. New Mexico is a USAspending geography tag on awards that also carry agency 089. Work, subcontracting, or later modifications can occur elsewhere. $186,196,163,389 is not proof that every dollar was disbursed to New Mexico residents. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Energy–New Mexico table?

Department of Energy in New Mexico is the overlay. New Mexico federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Energy shows agency 089 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.