Department of Homeland Security federal obligations in Virginia

DHS awards inside the Virginia extract

Department of Homeland Security as awarding agency, Virginia as place-of-performance: 6,384 records summing to $28,649,740,477.88. A DHS award coded to Maryland is a different cell. A Defense award in Virginia sits under agency 097, not 070, even when the vendor list overlaps in public conversation.

The implied mean is about $4.49 million per award. Headquarters-adjacent contracts, grants, and component vehicles can share that average. This packet does not split the 6,384 rows by component.

Department of Homeland Security in Virginia is the overlay. Virginia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. All spending ties lists other pairs. Six thousand three hundred eighty-four DHS records in Virginia are statewide, not a Northern Virginia-only file. $28,649,740,477.88 is the obligation sum for agency 070 inside Virginia coding. Department of Homeland Security in Virginia does not include Defense awards (097) even when vendors overlap in public conversation.

Beltway adjacency is not a join key

Proximity to Washington, D.C., is not a USAspending field in this packet. $28,649,740,477.88 is not a tax on being next to the capital. Place-of-performance can follow a Crystal City address while work occurs elsewhere, and work in Virginia can carry another state’s tag on a different award.

Named contractors and SCIF counts are unpublished. Do not treat 6,384 awards as 6,384 Virginia security firms. Virginia did not cause the cell by sitting across the Potomac. The join is 070 × VA. Correlation is not causation. Beltway adjacency is not a packet field. Treating $28,649,740,477.88 as a headquarters tax is causation language. Virginia federal spending still includes VA (Veterans Affairs, 036) and SBA cells that are not 070.

Obligations on a mixed DHS file

Acquisition vehicles and grants can obligate ahead of outlays. $28,649,740,477.88 is the commitment total. Citing it as cash already spent in Virginia confuses two Treasury concepts.

Richmond’s budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with USAspending.gov leaves this series. Virginia DHS’s 6,384 records are statewide, not a Northern Virginia-only file. $28,649,740,477.88 is agency 070, not Defense 097. Department of Homeland Security in Virginia does not absorb Pentagon-adjacent awards under other codes. Spell out Virginia so the postal code VA does not collide with Veterans Affairs.

Statewide Virginia, not a NoVA map

This packet does not split $28,649,740,477.88 between Northern Virginia and the rest of the Commonwealth. 6,384 awards stay statewide. A region table would be a different extract.

Department of Homeland Security is the 070 hub without a Virginia filter. Use it for the agency book. Contractor modifications can thicken 6,384 without a matching jump in $28,649,740,477.88. Department of Homeland Security in Virginia stays statewide. NoVA shares remain unpublished. Spell out Virginia in every citation.

Citing DHS in Virginia

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Homeland Security (070) obligated $28,649,740,477.88 on 6,384 awards coded to Virginia. Spell out Virginia so the postal code VA does not collide with Veterans Affairs in a headline.

Prefer Department of Homeland Security in Virginia if the overlay moved. Do not per-capita $28,649,740,477.88. Do not treat 6,384 as unique contractors. Virginia federal spending still includes Veterans Affairs and SBA cells that are not 070. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Prefer the overlay after ingests. Keep the obligation label. The implied mean near $4.49 million is dollars divided by records.

How to cite DHS in Virginia

Cite Department of Homeland Security, Virginia, $28,649,740,477.88, and 6,384 awards. Spell out Virginia so the postal code VA does not collide with Veterans Affairs. All spending ties lists other pairs. Department of Homeland Security is the 070 parent.

Do not per-capita the total. Do not treat 6,384 as unique contractors. Do not call the dollars a SCIF inventory. Those series are unpublished. Refresh from Department of Homeland Security in Virginia after ingests. Keep the obligation label. USAspending.gov is the source.

Questions

How much has DHS obligated in Virginia?

USAspending.gov lists $28,649,740,477.88 in Department of Homeland Security obligations across 6,384 Virginia-coded awards. Agency 070 × VA is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a contractor census. USAspending.gov is the originating system. Department of Homeland Security in Virginia is the live overlay for this pair. $28,649,740,477.88 remains an obligation sum, not an outlay, across 6,384 awards.

Is this mostly Northern Virginia contractors?

The packet is statewide and does not split regions. $28,649,740,477.88 and 6,384 awards use the Virginia geography tag. NoVA shares are unpublished. This packet publishes only the Department of Homeland Security (agency 070) join inside Virginia coding. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote $28,649,740,477.88 and 6,384 together.

Does this include Pentagon or Defense work in Virginia?

No. This cell is awarding agency 070 only. Department of Defense awards in Virginia sit under agency 097 in a different join. SpendingVault indexes the pair; it does not convert $28,649,740,477.88 into cash already paid. Later ingests can revise 6,384 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Homeland Security in Virginia is the overlay. Virginia federal spending and Department of Homeland Security are the parents. All spending ties lists other pairs. Virginia federal spending and Department of Homeland Security are parent hubs, not addends. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $28,649,740,477.88. Obligations are not outlays.