Department of State federal obligations in Massachusetts

State Department awards tagged to Massachusetts

This page is a join of two USAspending.gov fields: awarding agency Department of State (code 072) and place-of-performance Massachusetts. The extract sums to $1,187,319,356.76 on 23 awards. Those facts describe a coding intersection. They do not show that Department of State spending caused Massachusetts outcomes, or that Massachusetts caused the federal award book.

The pair is not a foreign-policy ranking or a count of passports issued in Massachusetts. Correlation of an agency label with a state code is not causation. Place-of-performance can follow a contractor campus, a training site, or an administrative address. Work tagged to Massachusetts can involve parties elsewhere, and Massachusetts work can be coded to another state.

State Department diplomatic cables, visa statistics, and embassy budgets are other products. Mixing any of those series with $1,187,319,356.76 leaves the USAspending award file. The 23 figure counts award records, including modifications present in the extract, not unique people, firms, or facilities.

Twenty-three awards under $1.19 billion

Twenty-three awards under a $1.19 billion book is an extremely short tape relative to the dollars. Dividing $1,187,319,356.76 by 23 awards yields an implied mean near $51,622,581. That quotient is a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical award size and not a median. A few large vehicles can pull the average while many smaller rows sit below it.

Volume and dollars are different columns. Cite both 23 and $1,187,319,356.76. USAspending.gov is the source. SpendingVault does not recast $51,622,581 as a product schedule or a beneficiary payment.

Later ingests can revise $1,187,319,356.76 and 23. This prose is a packet snapshot. The overlay is the live table. If those two disagree, use the overlay. Keep the obligation label so the cell is not read as cash already paid in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts statewide versus State nationwide

Massachusetts’s all-agency hub includes every awarding agency with performance in the state. $1,187,319,356.76 is only the Department of State cell inside Massachusetts. The Department of State national hub includes every state. This tie is the overlap, nothing more.

State budget documents in Massachusetts answer a different question. They are not the source of the 23 federal award records. If a chart mixes a General Fund table with this cell, the chart has left the USAspending.gov series.

A 23-row file with an implied mean near $51,622,581 is consistent with a handful of large contractor or support vehicles. This packet does not name those vehicles. Place-of-performance in Massachusetts does not mean the work is consular. $1,187,319,356.76 remains an award-file cell on 23 records.

Fat obligations are still not cash

An obligation records a legal commitment on an award. An outlay records cash leaving the Treasury. $1,187,319,356.76 is the first series. Using it as a proxy for checks already issued in Massachusetts will misstate timing. SpendingVault does not convert this cell into cash.

Multi-year vehicles can remain open after the obligation posts. Cite the pair as agency 072 × Massachusetts, $1,187,319,356.76, 23 awards, obligations only.

Overlay and parent hubs

The Massachusetts × Department of State overlay holds the structured rows behind 23 awards and $1,187,319,356.76. The Massachusetts state page and the Department of State agency page are the parents. The ties index lists other state–agency pairs on the same obligation basis.

Those views do not add a program-code mix or a unique-recipient count this packet omits. They also do not convert $1,187,319,356.76 into outlays.

How to cite State in Massachusetts

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of State (awarding agency 072) obligated $1,187,319,356.76 on 23 awards coded to Massachusetts. Keep both sides of the join. Do not drop Massachusetts and call the figure a national State Dept total. Do not drop Department of State and call it Massachusetts’s entire federal book.

The implied mean near $51,622,581 remains a ratio of two packet facts. Place-of-performance is a coding field, not a complete map of Massachusetts subcontractors. Do not treat the Massachusetts State Department cell as a foreign-affairs score.

Questions

How much has the Department of State obligated in Massachusetts?

USAspending.gov shows $1,187,319,356.76 in Department of State obligations coded to Massachusetts across 23 awards. Awarding-agency 072 and Massachusetts place of performance define the join. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Why are there only 23 State Department awards in Massachusetts?

The extract counts 23 award records. Large contractor vehicles can produce a short tape with a high implied mean—about $51,622,581 from $1,187,319,356.76 divided by 23. Recipient names are not in this packet.

Does this total measure diplomacy in Massachusetts?

No. $1,187,319,356.76 is an award-file coding total, not a diplomacy score, visa count, or embassy budget. Correlation between State Department awards and a state code is not causation.

Are State Department obligations in Massachusetts the same as outlays?

No. $1,187,319,356.76 is an obligation sum on 23 awards. Outlays are cash leaving the Treasury and can lag. SpendingVault does not convert this Massachusetts × State Dept cell into cash.