Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in Wisconsin

VA in Wisconsin, not the Defense cell

This page is the USAspending cell for awarding agency 036 and Wisconsin (WI) place of performance. The $15,840,563,068.69 total sums matching obligations. Defense in Wisconsin uses agency 097 and a larger award count. Mixing the two without labeling filters would confuse departments. This narrative stays on VA.

Twenty-eight thousand fifty-nine awards is a substantial row count for a VA–state join. The count can include health-care contracts, construction, and other award types. The packet does not classify them. Inferring a single facility from the state tag would add a label the table does not carry.

Wisconsin’s 28,059 VA records and $15,840,563,068.69 produce a mean near $564,545, a bit higher than some thicker VA books because the denominator is smaller. Higher mean is not a quality score. Defense’s Wisconsin cell remains a different department. Adding the two without a footnote invents a combined total neither packet contains.

Awarding agency 036

Code 036 is the Department of Veterans Affairs in this extract. VHA, VBA, and NCA awarding offices can roll up under that parent. This packet does not split them. The overlay /states/wi/agencies/036/ is the table view of the same pair.

A national VA page will show a larger dollar total. Using $15,840,563,068.69 as the entire VA obligation book would drop the Wisconsin filter. Using 28,059 as a headcount of Wisconsin veterans would drop the award-record definition.

Wisconsin as place of performance

Wisconsin is state code WI. Place of performance can follow work in-state, a recipient address, or a reporting convention. Awards coded to Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, or Iowa stay outside this $15,840,563,068.69 figure even when metro areas straddle those lines. The join does not reconstruct those metros.

Statewide Wisconsin federal spending is the parent geography. VA is one awarding agency inside it. Defense’s high-count Wisconsin cell is a different filter. This page keeps 036 and WI only.

A $564,545 mean in a 28,059-row book

Mean obligation of about $564,545 sits slightly above some other mid-count VA cells because 28,059 is a smaller denominator than those thicker books. The comparison is table geometry. It is not a typical hospital claim and not a median. Community-care contracts, if present, would sit beside facility operations in the same undifferentiated total.

Net obligations can include de-obligations. 28,059 remains a count of award records, not 28,059 unique vendors and not 28,059 veterans served.

What the VA–Wisconsin pair is not

Wisconsin place-of-performance tagging does not mean FEC receipts funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. The page does not rank Wisconsin’s veteran population. It reports one USAspending join.

Continue from Department of Veterans Affairs in Wisconsin for the overlay, Wisconsin federal spending for all agencies, Department of Veterans Affairs for agency 036 nationally, and All spending ties for other pairs.

How to read the Wisconsin–VA numbers

Wisconsin VA ($15,840,563,068.69, 28,059 awards) is the smaller-row sibling of Wisconsin Defense. Smaller-row is still 28,059 records. Defense remains 097; this page is 036. Adding the two Wisconsin department totals without a footnote invents a combined figure neither packet publishes. Twenty-eight thousand fifty-nine rows produce a mean near $564,545, a bit higher than some thicker VA books because the denominator is smaller. Higher mean is not better care. It is arithmetic. Facility names in Milwaukee or Madison are not in the facts.

Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, and Iowa bound Wisconsin. Twin Cities spillover and Chicagoland spillover are other tags when the award lists them. Only WI-tagged VA awards sit in $15,840,563,068.69.

Questions

How much Veterans Affairs funding is obligated in Wisconsin?

USAspending records $15,840,563,068.69 in obligations for awarding agency 036 (Department of Veterans Affairs) with Wisconsin place of performance, covering 28,059 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for this pair, not an outlay total and not the national VA figure.

How does this differ from Defense spending in Wisconsin?

This page filters agency 036. Defense uses agency 097, a different overlay, and a different award count. $15,840,563,068.69 is the VA slice only.

What is the average VA award in Wisconsin?

Dividing $15,840,563,068.69 by 28,059 awards produces about $564,545 per award. That is a mean of the aggregate, not a median contract value.

Does this include VA health care and benefits together?

Anything coded to awarding agency 036 with Wisconsin place of performance is in the total. The packet does not split VHA, VBA, or other VA awarding offices.