Department of Homeland Security federal obligations in the District of Columbia

Homeland Security and the District as a pair

Agency 070, labeled Department of Homeland Security, plus District of Columbia place of performance, produces $17,704,993,493.88 across 5,969 awards. That is a join, not a narrative about threat levels. USAspending does not score cities. It tags awards. The District appears here because the geography field is DC, which is common for headquarters-adjacent procurement and assistance, and uncommon as a measure of local risk.

Five thousand nine hundred sixty-nine awards is a higher row count than several other District–agency cells with similar dollars, which pulls the mean toward about $2.97 million. The mean is not a typical task order. Components inside DHS — if they appear in the raw file — are not split out in these two facts.

Five thousand nine hundred sixty-nine is large enough that a reader might assume the cell is a complete inventory of every Homeland Security function discussed in Washington. It is not. Awards that USAspending codes to another state never enter $17,704,993,493.88, even if a component’s leadership sits in the District. The overlay remains the authority for which rows currently qualify.

Awarding agency 070

The Department of Homeland Security hub for agency 070 includes every place-of-performance state. The District’s $17,704,993,493.88 is one geography inside that hub. Awards coded to Virginia, Maryland, or other states stay off this page even when the same component manages them. Mixing those geographies would invent a total the facts do not give.

Code 070 is the key used in the overlay /states/dc/agencies/070/. Readers should match that code when comparing this tie with other DHS state pages so that English labels do not hide different filters.

District place of performance

DC as place of performance can reflect work in the capital, recipients located in the District, or a geography code that does not track every duty station. The $17,704,993,493.88 sum does not allocate among those possibilities. It also does not equal the District’s total federal obligations; other awarding agencies have their own DC cells.

The District of Columbia federal spending page is the parent geography. Homeland Security is one agency on that list. Comparing DHS with State, EPA, or Treasury in the same city is a comparison of separate joins, each with its own award count.

Commitments versus payments

Obligations of $17,704,993,493.88 are not outlays of the same amount. DHS awards can span multiple years of performance. This page has no fiscal-year column in the facts, so no year is attached to the total. Adding a year would be invention.

The 5,969 award records can include new awards and modifications depending on how the aggregate was built. The packet supplies a single count. Treat it as the published award count for the pair, not as 5,969 unique companies or 5,969 completed missions.

Caveats on reading a capital DHS total

A large Homeland Security total in the District does not mean the District is more or less secure than another place, and it does not mean these dollars funded a specific operation named in news coverage. The join is silent on outcomes. It is also silent on campaign finance; federal obligations and political contributions are different systems.

See Department of Homeland Security in District of Columbia for the table, District of Columbia federal spending for all agencies, Department of Homeland Security for agency 070, and All spending ties for other pairs.

Component names inside Homeland Security are not dollar shares here. $17,704,993,493.88 is the toptier 070 total for DC place of performance. Allocating that sum to a named component would invent a split. The 5,969-award count is equally unsplit.

Reading a capital-region DHS cell

Department of Homeland Security in District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia federal spending is all agencies in DC. Department of Homeland Security is agency 070 nationwide. All spending ties lists other joins. Those four views separate “DHS in the District” from “all District federal awards” and from “all DHS awards.” Mixing the three is how people over-read $17,704,993,493.88.

Headquarters geography attracts administrative awards. That is a coding pattern, not a finding that the District faces a particular threat. USAspending does not rank cities on safety. The 5,969 records are award rows, not incidents or deployments. Obligations remain commitments; outlays are a different field. No fiscal year is attached to the packet facts, so none is attached here.

Questions

How much has DHS obligated in the District of Columbia?

USAspending records $17,704,993,493.88 in Department of Homeland Security (agency 070) obligations with DC place of performance, covering 5,969 awards. That is an obligation total for the pair, not outlays.

Does a high DHS total mean DC is a high-risk city?

No. USAspending geography is place of performance, not a crime or threat ranking. The $17,704,993,493.88 figure counts obligations tagged to agency 070 and DC. It does not score safety.

What is the average DHS award in DC?

Dividing $17,704,993,493.88 by 5,969 awards yields about $2.97 million per award. That mean mixes whatever award types are in the aggregate and is not a median.

Is this all Homeland Security spending nationwide?

No. Only awards with DC place of performance enter this cell. Agency 070 awards in other states appear on other ties. The nationwide agency page is the unfiltered 070 profile.