Department of Energy federal obligations in Virginia (agency 089)

What the Energy–Virginia join is

Awarding agency 089 and place-of-performance state VA meet here. $5,106,273,492 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Energy’s nationwide budget, not Virginia’s entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Hampton Roads nuclear-navy folklore and northern-Virginia office parks may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a reactor census.

677 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — a short award list beside a multi-billion obligation total. A few large awards can dominate a dollar total even when the row count looks tiny. The join does not rank Virginia against other states and does not name laboratories or shipyards inside the extract.

Open Department of Energy in Virginia for the filtered table, Virginia federal spending for the next hub, Department of Energy for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

A short award list next to a large dollar total

Dividing $5,106,273,492 by 677 yields about $7,542,501 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical naval-reactor contract. Repeat awards and modifications still add rows; the listed count is not a unique-recipient census. Lab or shipyard names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars.

Hampton roads nuclear-navy folklore and northern-virginia office parks is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative’s extra columns.

Agency 089 without a Virginia overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Department of Energy page aggregates 089 without requiring VA geography. The Virginia federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Virginia place of performance. Only Department of Energy in Virginia applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 677 awards and $5,106,273,492.

Place of performance in Virginia is a USAspending geography field. Work can occur elsewhere after obligation. DOE awards coded to other states do not sit in this total even if a program office sits in Northern Virginia. This packet does not split Norfolk from Richmond or Northern Virginia.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $5,106,273,492 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 Virginia over-reads the field.

Award count 677 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Virginia–DOE overlay. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

What this pair does not prove

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

Keep $5,106,273,492 labeled as agency 089 obligations with Virginia place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. An agency name that appears near a donor occupation is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline into USAspending.

How to cite the Virginia–Energy pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 089 (Department of Energy), Virginia place of performance, $5,106,273,492 in obligations, and 677 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $5,106,273,492 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $7,542,501 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical naval-reactor contract.

Department of Energy in Virginia, Virginia federal spending, Department of Energy, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $5,106,273,492 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Hampton Roads-versus-Richmond folklore is not a metro split in this packet. A short award list is still a record count, including modifications. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has the Energy Department obligated in Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $5,106,273,492 in obligations for awarding agency 089 with Virginia place of performance, covering 677 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Energy’s nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

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

The extract lists 677 award actions totaling $5,106,273,492. Average obligation per award is about $7,542,501, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical naval-reactor contract. Unique recipients are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is this a Hampton Roads-only Energy total?

No. $5,106,273,492 and 677 awards are statewide Virginia place of performance. This packet does not split Norfolk from Richmond or Northern Virginia. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Energy–Virginia table?

Department of Energy in Virginia is the overlay. Virginia 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.