Department of Transportation federal obligations in Wisconsin (agency 069)

What the Transportation–Wisconsin join is

Awarding agency 069 and place-of-performance state WI meet here. $4,964,827,774 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Transportation’s nationwide budget, not Wisconsin’s entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Interstate, Great Lakes port, and winter-maintenance folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a county road census.

3,577 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — thousands of award actions behind a multi-billion obligation total. Modifications add rows. Unique vendors are not published here. The join does not rank Wisconsin against other states and does not name bridges or ports inside the extract.

Open Department of Transportation in Wisconsin for the filtered table, Wisconsin federal spending for the next hub, Department of Transportation for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

Transportation actions under a Wisconsin geography tag

Dividing $4,964,827,774 by 3,577 yields about $1,387,987 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical interstate contract. A second Transportation slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Wisconsin’s 069 total as a synonym for every DOT account.

Interstate, great lakes port, and winter-maintenance folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative’s extra columns.

Agency 069 without a Wisconsin overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Department of Transportation page aggregates 069 without requiring WI geography. The Wisconsin federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Wisconsin place of performance. Only Department of Transportation in Wisconsin applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 3,577 awards and $4,964,827,774.

Place of performance in Wisconsin is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list WI while later work occurs in Illinois or Minnesota. Transportation awards coded to those states do not sit in this total even if the vendor’s mailroom is in Milwaukee. This packet does not split Milwaukee from Madison or Green Bay.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $4,964,827,774 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in Wisconsin over-reads the field.

Award count 3,577 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Wisconsin–DOT overlay. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

What this pair does not prove

A large Transportation total in Wisconsin does not mean the agency caused Wisconsin’s freight mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between winter geography and highway awards is expected; it is not a finding about waste or pavement quality.

Keep $4,964,827,774 labeled as agency 069 obligations with Wisconsin place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. An agency name that appears near a donor occupation is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline into USAspending.

How to cite the Wisconsin–Transportation pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 069 (Department of Transportation), Wisconsin place of performance, $4,964,827,774 in obligations, and 3,577 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $4,964,827,774 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $1,387,987 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical interstate contract.

Department of Transportation in Wisconsin, Wisconsin federal spending, Department of Transportation, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $4,964,827,774 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Milwaukee-versus-Madison folklore is not a metro split in this packet. Port names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has Transportation obligated in Wisconsin?

USAspending.gov records $4,964,827,774 in obligations for awarding agency 069 with Wisconsin place of performance, covering 3,577 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Transportation’s nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Does this total include every Wisconsin highway project?

The extract lists 3,577 award actions totaling $4,964,827,774. Average obligation per award is about $1,387,987, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical interstate contract. Unique recipients are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is this a Milwaukee-only Transportation total?

No. $4,964,827,774 and 3,577 awards are statewide Wisconsin place of performance. This packet does not split Milwaukee from Madison or Green Bay. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Transportation–Wisconsin table?

Department of Transportation in Wisconsin is the overlay. Wisconsin federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Transportation shows agency 069 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.