Department of State (agency 019) federal obligations in Virginia

The agency 019 and Virginia intersection

This tie page reports the cell where awarding agency 019, labeled Department of State, meets Virginia as place-of-performance state. The $18,923,084,814.11 figure is the sum of obligations on awards that carry both attributes in the USAspending aggregate. Remove either filter and the total changes: statewide Virginia spending includes every awarding agency, and the agency 019 profile includes every state.

Four thousand five hundred fifty-four awards is a larger row count than several other State Department geography slices on this site, while the dollars remain in the same order of magnitude as the District pair that uses a different agency code. That comparison is descriptive only. It does not rank Virginia as a better or worse location for federal work, and it does not imply that 4,554 distinct companies received funds.

Reading agency 019 without collapsing codes

USAspending’s awarding-agency dimension uses numeric codes. This join is keyed to 019. Other Department of State pages on SpendingVault use 072. The labels look similar; the codes, overlay paths, and dollar totals do not. Treating 019 and 072 as the same bucket would mix $18,923,084,814.11 in Virginia with unrelated District and New York slices.

The agency hub for 019 is the place to see that department’s awards without a Virginia constraint. This narrative only restates the 4,554-award, $18.92 billion Virginia cell. Nothing here fills in missing fiscal years, object classes, or overseas posts; those fields are not in the packet facts.

Virginia as place of performance

Virginia in this table is the USAspending place-of-performance state code VA. Recipients headquartered in Northern Virginia, work performed in the Commonwealth, and awards that simply list VA on the geography field can all land in the same $18,923,084,814.11 sum. The join does not distinguish those cases. It also excludes State Department awards coded to DC, Maryland, or other states even when the staff commute from Virginia.

Statewide Virginia federal spending is the parent geography. Agency 019 is one awarding agency among many in that parent. Readers who want the unfiltered state total should leave this tie page and open the Virginia hub rather than treating $18.92 billion as Virginia’s entire federal footprint.

How the 4,554 awards sit under the dollars

Average obligation is about $4.16 million ($18,923,084,814.11 ÷ 4,554). That ratio is useful as a concentration check: the Virginia–019 cell is less dollar-heavy per award than some other State Department ties with fewer rows, and more dollar-heavy than housing or loan-style agencies with tens of thousands of awards. It is still an average, not a median, and not a typical invoice.

USAspending obligations can be positive or include downward adjustments in the raw file; this aggregate reports the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction table on this page, 4,554 is best read as “award records in the aggregate,” not as “4,554 completed projects.”

Limits of the join

Sharing a state with an awarding agency does not mean Virginia taxpayers chose these awards, and it does not mean Department of State outlays equal $18,923,084,814.11 inside the Commonwealth. The two datasets that sometimes appear on other sites — campaign finance and federal spending — are not linked here. This page is only the USAspending state–agency cell.

Continue from Department of State in Virginia for the overlay table, Virginia federal spending for all agencies, Department of State for agency 019 nationally, and All spending ties for other pairs.

Virginia’s place-of-performance tag can include awards that sound like Washington work in ordinary language. The table does not resolve that. $18,923,084,814.11 is whatever USAspending coded as VA for agency 019. Whether a specific contract lists a Northern Virginia address is an award-level question, not an aggregate one.

Using the four related pages

Department of State in Virginia is the overlay for this pair. Virginia federal spending shows every awarding agency in the Commonwealth, so 019 is one row among others. Department of State at agency 019 is the national profile. All spending ties lists other joins. Those four hrefs are the correct next step after $18,923,084,814.11 and 4,554 awards.

The mean of about $4.16 million shows the cell is neither a handful of giant rows nor a hundred-thousand-row assistance file. It does not show what a contracting officer approved. Modifications can change an award’s obligation while it still counts among the 4,554 records. The mean is not a budget request, a staffing level, or a measure of diplomatic presence in Virginia.

Questions

How much State Department funding is obligated in Virginia?

USAspending records $18,923,084,814.11 in obligations for awarding agency 019 (Department of State) with Virginia place of performance, covering 4,554 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for this pair, not an outlay figure and not the department’s national total.

Why is State Department spending showing up in Virginia instead of DC?

The geography field is place of performance, not headquarters. Awards tagged VA enter this $18,923,084,814.11 total; awards tagged DC or another state do not. The join does not explain the operational reason a given award lists Virginia.

Is agency 019 the same as agency 072?

No. This page filters awarding agency 019. Other State Department ties use code 072, different overlay URLs, and different dollar and award counts. The shared English name does not merge the codes.

What does the average award amount tell me?

Dividing $18,923,084,814.11 by 4,554 awards produces about $4.16 million per award. That is a mean of the aggregate, not a median contract value, and it mixes whatever award types sit in the USAspending table for this pair.