Department of State in Arkansas 4th District (AR-04)
USAspending.gov tags $275,326,966.40 to Department of State inside Arkansas 4th District (AR-04) — 2 award records, not outlays. Agency 019 crossed with place of performance AR-04 is the pair. It is not a consular ranking, a passport-wait table, or a named-vendor file. The cell is 3.6% of this district's published obligation total ($7,630,161,345.60).
Key figures
- Department of State in Arkansas 4th District (AR-04): $275,326,966.40 across 2 awards.
- About 3.6% of the district's $7,630,161,345.60 all-agency obligation total.
- Average obligation per award is about $137,663,483.20 (ratio only).
- The join is Department of State × Arkansas 4th District (AR-04) place of performance, not Arkansas statewide State totals or the Virginia 6th State overlay.
- Figures are USAspending obligations, not outlays.
How Department of State meets Arkansas 4th District (AR-04)
The pair on this overlay is Department of State inside Arkansas 4th District (AR-04) place of performance. $275,326,966.40 is that obligation rollup. It is not Arkansas's complete federal inflow, not Department of State nationwide, and not cash already paid. Arkansas 4th District and Department of State are parents, not addends. Correlation is not causation.
2 is an award-action count. Modifications and delivery orders can add rows. Unique vendors are unpublished. Dividing $275,326,966.40 by 2 yields about $137,663,483.20 per award, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical invoice. Campaign-finance tables do not fund these obligations. 2 is a thin award file. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors.
Awarding agency 019 on the State Department side
Department of State is awarding agency 019. Two award records are an action count, not two named posts or two named vendors. The packet does not split diplomatic programs. Confusing this join with Arkansas statewide State totals or the Virginia 6th State overlay would be a different overlay. Packet facts on the agency side are the name Department of State, code 019, and the join dollars $275,326,966.40. Any other recipient or installation list would be invented.
Department of State drops the district filter. Other districts with Department of State awards are other ties. This page quotes only Arkansas 4th District (AR-04). Two rows make a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities. Do not rank AR-04 against other districts. Campaign-finance tables do not fund this cell.
Arkansas 4th District (AR-04) as the geography stamp
Arkansas 4th District (AR-04) is a congressional place-of-performance tag inside Arkansas. It does not prove residency of workers or vendors. Virginia 6th District is a different State join, not a comparison ranking. Place of performance AR-04 is a geography field in the award file. It does not prove residency of workers or vendors. Arkansas federal spending is the statewide parent and includes other districts.
The district's all-agency obligation total is $7,630,161,345.60. $275,326,966.40 is the Department of State slice of that book, about 3.6%. Remaining district dollars sit with other awarding agencies on Arkansas 4th District, not inside this join. District 90/98 multi and non-voting placeholders are omitted from this harvest by design.
Two award rows and a concentrated obligation cell
2 awards against $275,326,966.40 implies about $137,663,483.20 per award. That mean is not a unit price and not a jobs figure. With 2 rows, a few large instruments can dominate. Treat the count as records in an aggregate, not as 2 finished projects. All spending ties lists other pairs. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished.
Diplomatic stories this State × AR-04 packet omits
An obligation is a legal commitment. $275,326,966.40 is that kind of sum for Department of State inside AR-04 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. This packet has no outlay total and no fiscal-year split. Citing the figure as cash already spent in Arkansas 4th District (AR-04) over-reads the field. Do not rank Arkansas 4th District (AR-04) as a winner or loser versus other districts. Keep both sides in the citation: Department of State and Arkansas 4th District (AR-04).
Hubs that parent the AR-04 State overlay
Open Arkansas 4th District for the district rollup, Department of State for the agency rollup, Arkansas federal spending for Arkansas statewide spending, and All spending ties for other pairs. None of those links convert this cell into Arkansas statewide State totals or the Virginia 6th State overlay, into outlays this packet omits, or into a contractor list. Cite Department of State in Arkansas 4th District (AR-04), $275,326,966.40, 2 awards, USAspending.gov, obligations only. Two rows make a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities. Do not rank AR-04 against other districts. Campaign-finance tables do not fund this cell.
Questions
- How much did the Department of State obligate in Arkansas 4th (AR-04)?
- USAspending.gov records $275,326,966.40 in Department of State obligations with Arkansas 4th District (AR-04) place of performance across 2 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for the district-agency pair, not an outlay and not Arkansas's complete federal ledger.
- Does 2 awards name two Arkansas contractors?
- No. 2 is an award-action count and can include modifications. Unique vendors are not published. Average obligation is about $137,663,483.20 per award, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical invoice. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
- Is this Arkansas's entire Department of State total?
- No. $275,326,966.40 is only the Department of State slice tagged to Arkansas 4th District (AR-04). Arkansas federal spending is the statewide parent. Arkansas 4th District includes other awarding agencies in the same district. Mixing those books into this total would overstate the join.
- Which pages parent State in Arkansas 4th District?
- Arkansas 4th District is the district parent. Department of State is the agency hub. Arkansas federal spending is the Arkansas parent. All spending ties lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later ingests; this page quotes Department of State × AR-04 at $275,326,966.40.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.