Department of State federal obligations in Maryland

A thin State Department file on Maryland

Department of State as awarding agency, Maryland as place-of-performance: 171 records summing to $2,739,415,153.26. A Department of State award coded outside MD is out. An award in Maryland from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Maryland (MD) excludes the District of Columbia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. A District-coded State award is not this cell even if the bureau sits across the river.

One hundred seventy-one awards against $2,739,415,153.26 is a thin, high-mean State Department file. Support and facilities vehicles can mint few rows with large dollars. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 171 as 171 unique visas, unique posts, or named embassies. Department of State in Maryland is the both-keys table. Maryland federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of State is the agency book without an MD filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

This is awarding agency 072, not Justice 015, which also has a Maryland join in this slice. Do not add the two Maryland cells. Correlation is not causation: Maryland did not cause $2,739,415,153.26 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 072 × MD only. Campaign contributions do not fund these USAspending awards.

171 rows are not 171 diplomatic posts

$2,739,415,153.26 does not measure visas, unique posts, or named embassies. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 072 and an MD place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 171 awards as a census of visas, unique posts, or named embassies. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Maryland federal spending or Department of State matched $2,739,415,153.26 and 171, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. District of Columbia and Virginia State Department joins are other pairs, not addends.

Maryland, not a foreign-affairs Beltway rollup

Place of performance MD is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Maryland (MD) excludes the District of Columbia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. A District-coded State award is not this cell even if the bureau sits across the river. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This is awarding agency 072, not Justice 015, which also has a Maryland join in this slice. Do not add the two Maryland cells. This packet does not split $2,739,415,153.26 by city, county, or named facility. 171 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

High-mean vehicles still record obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $2,739,415,153.26 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Maryland confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Maryland’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 171-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 $2,739,415,153.26. The compact headline $2.74 billion is that same dollar total rounded, not a second extract.

Citing the State Department in Maryland

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of State (agency 072) obligated $2,739,415,153.26 on 171 awards coded to Maryland. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as visas, unique posts, or named embassies.

Prefer Department of State in Maryland if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Maryland federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to MD. Department of State is the 072 parent without the MD filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,739,415,153.26. The implied mean near $16.02 million is $2,739,415,153.26 divided by 171. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of State obligated in Maryland?

USAspending.gov records $2,739,415,153.26 across 171 awards with awarding agency 072 and a Maryland tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of visas, unique posts, or named embassies. Department of State in Maryland is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,739,415,153.26.

Is $2,739,415,153.26 a measure of visas, unique posts, or named embassies?

No. The packet publishes $2,739,415,153.26 and 171 awards for agency 072 inside MD 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 State file have 171 awards?

That is the award-record count for 072 × MD. Combined with $2,739,415,153.26, the average is about $16.02 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 171 is not unique visas, unique posts, or named embassies. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live State–Maryland table?

Department of State in Maryland is the overlay. Maryland 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 $2,739,415,153.26. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.