Department of State federal obligations in Alabama

State Department awards tagged to Alabama

Department of State as awarding agency, Alabama as place-of-performance: 124 records summing to $72,970,576.99. A Department of State award coded outside AL is out. An award in Alabama from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Alabama (AL) excludes Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. A Georgia-coded award is GA even if a vendor sits in Huntsville. Awarding agency 019 is the State parent. Bureaus are unpublished splits.

One hundred twenty-four records against $72,970,576.99 is a thin State Department file: few rows, a high implied mean. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 124 as 124 unique posts, named missions, or unique contractors. The overlay Department of State in Alabama is the both-keys table. Alabama federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of State is the agency book without an AL filter. All spending ties lists other joins. Named contractors are unpublished. Do not assign $72,970,576.99 to a single Alabama vendor or to an embassy count. Correlation is not causation: Alabama did not cause $72,970,576.99 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 019 × AL only.

Not embassies, named posts, or unique contractors

$72,970,576.99 does not measure unique posts, named missions, or unique contractors. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 019 and an AL place-of-performance tag. Awarding agency 019 is the State parent. Bureaus are unpublished splits.

Do not treat 124 awards as a census of unique posts, named missions, or unique contractors. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Alabama federal spending or Department of State matched $72,970,576.99 and 124, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee State Department joins are other pairs, not addends. Place of performance AL is domestic coding, not a count of overseas posts staffed from Alabama.

Alabama statewide, not a Huntsville-only map

Place of performance AL is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Alabama (AL) excludes Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. A Georgia-coded award is GA even if a vendor sits in Huntsville. Recipient address can differ from that state tag. Birmingham, Huntsville, Montgomery, and the rest of the counties share one AL stamp.

Named contractors are unpublished. Do not assign $72,970,576.99 to a single Alabama vendor or to an embassy count. This packet does not split $72,970,576.99 by city, county, or named facility. 124 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. FEC donation tables do not fund these USAspending obligations.

Thin diplomatic-adjacent files still record obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $72,970,576.99 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Alabama confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Alabama’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 124-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 $72,970,576.99. Place of performance AL is domestic coding, not a count of overseas posts staffed from Alabama.

Citing State in Alabama

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of State (agency 019) obligated $72,970,576.99 on 124 awards coded to Alabama. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as unique posts, named missions, or unique contractors. The pair is the Department of State plus Alabama, not a foreign-post budget.

Prefer Department of State in Alabama if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Alabama federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to AL. Department of State is the 019 parent without the AL filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $72,970,576.99. A usable footnote names Department of State, Alabama, $72,970,576.99, and 124. The compact headline $73.0 million is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $588,472 is $72,970,576.99 divided by 124. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of State obligated in Alabama?

USAspending.gov records $72,970,576.99 across 124 awards with awarding agency 019 and an Alabama tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unique posts, named missions, or unique contractors. Department of State in Alabama is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $72,970,576.99.

Is $72,970,576.99 a measure of unique posts, named missions, or unique contractors?

No. The packet publishes $72,970,576.99 and 124 awards for agency 019 inside AL coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays. Keep both keys.

Does 124 State awards mean 124 Alabama posts?

No. 124 is the award-record count for 019 × AL. Combined with $72,970,576.99, the average is about $588,472. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 124 is not unique posts, named missions, or unique contractors. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live State Dept–Alabama table?

Department of State in Alabama is the overlay. Alabama federal spending and Department of State are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $72,970,576.99. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.