Department of Homeland Security federal obligations in Massachusetts

DHS awards tagged to Massachusetts

Department of Homeland Security as awarding agency, Massachusetts as place-of-performance: 1,699 records summing to $5,414,279,955.15. A Department of Homeland Security award coded outside MA is out. An award in Massachusetts from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Massachusetts (MA) excludes New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York. A Providence-coded award is Rhode Island.

One thousand six hundred ninety-nine awards is a mid-count DHS file: neither a few-hundred disaster vehicle list nor an assistance flood. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,699 as 1,699 unique named storms, port throughput, or unique contractors. The overlay Department of Homeland Security in Massachusetts is the both-keys table. Massachusetts federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Homeland Security is the agency book without an MA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Boston is not a published metro share of $5,414,279,955.15. Facility folklore is a different extract. Correlation is not causation: Massachusetts did not “cause” $5,414,279,955.15 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 070 × MA only.

Not Logan, the Port, or a storm ledger

$5,414,279,955.15 does not measure named storms, port throughput, or unique contractors. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 070 and an MA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,699 awards as a census of named storms, port throughput, or unique contractors. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Massachusetts federal spending or Department of Homeland Security matched $5,414,279,955.15 and 1,699, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island DHS joins are other pairs, not addends.

Massachusetts, not a New England rollup

Place of performance MA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Massachusetts (MA) excludes New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York. A Providence-coded award is Rhode Island. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Boston is not a published metro share of $5,414,279,955.15. Facility folklore is a different extract. This packet does not split $5,414,279,955.15 by city, county, or named facility. 1,699 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Preparedness stock versus outlays

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $5,414,279,955.15 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Massachusetts confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Massachusetts’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,699-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 $5,414,279,955.15.

Citing DHS in Massachusetts

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Homeland Security (agency 070) obligated $5,414,279,955.15 on 1,699 awards coded to Massachusetts. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as named storms, port throughput, or unique contractors.

Prefer Department of Homeland Security in Massachusetts if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Massachusetts federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to MA. Department of Homeland Security is the 070 parent without the MA filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $5,414,279,955.15.

A usable footnote names Department of Homeland Security, Massachusetts, $5,414,279,955.15, and 1,699. The compact headline $5.41 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $3.19 million is $5,414,279,955.15 divided by 1,699. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Homeland Security obligated in Massachusetts?

USAspending.gov records $5,414,279,955.15 across 1,699 awards with awarding agency 070 and a Massachusetts tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of named storms, port throughput, or unique contractors. Department of Homeland Security in Massachusetts is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $5,414,279,955.15.

Is $5,414,279,955.15 a measure of named storms, port throughput, or unique contractors?

No. The packet publishes $5,414,279,955.15 and 1,699 awards for agency 070 inside MA 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 DHS file have 1,699 awards?

That is the award-record count for 070 × MA. Combined with $5,414,279,955.15, the average is about $3.19 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,699 is not unique named storms, port throughput, or unique contractors. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Homeland Security in Massachusetts is the overlay. Massachusetts federal spending and Department of Homeland Security are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $5,414,279,955.15. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.