Federal Communications Commission federal obligations in Iowa

What the FCC-Iowa join is

Awarding agency 027 and place-of-performance state IA meet here. $1,166,746,603.87 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Federal Communications Commission's nationwide budget, not Iowa's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Rural-broadband, universal-service, and statewide tower folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a census of Iowa households online.

5,785 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — thousands of award actions behind a billion-dollar obligation total. Thousands of rows can mix small support payments with larger instruments. The join does not rank Iowa against other states and does not name carriers inside the extract.

Open Federal Communications Commission in Iowa for the filtered table, Iowa federal spending for the next hub, Federal Communications Commission for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

5,785 FCC actions under one Iowa filter

Dividing $1,166,746,603.87 by 5,785 yields about $201,684.81 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical universal-service award. Repeat awards and modifications still add rows; the listed count is not a unique-recipient census and not a household census. Carrier names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars.

Rural-broadband, universal-service, and statewide tower 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 027 without an Iowa overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Federal Communications Commission page aggregates 027 without requiring IA geography. The Iowa federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Iowa place of performance. Only Federal Communications Commission in Iowa applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 5,785 awards and $1,166,746,603.87.

Place of performance in Iowa is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list IA while later work occurs in Illinois or Nebraska. FCC awards coded to those states do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in Des Moines. This packet does not split Des Moines from Cedar Rapids or Sioux City.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $1,166,746,603.87 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 Iowa over-reads the field.

Award count 5,785 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Iowa-FCC overlay. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

What this pair does not prove

A large FCC total in Iowa does not mean the commission caused Iowa's connectivity mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between rural geography and FCC awards is expected; it is not a finding about broadband quality or waste.

Keep $1,166,746,603.87 labeled as agency 027 obligations with Iowa 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 Iowa-FCC pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 027 (Federal Communications Commission), Iowa place of performance, $1,166,746,603.87 in obligations, and 5,785 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $1,166,746,603.87 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $201,684.81 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical universal-service award.

Federal Communications Commission in Iowa, Iowa federal spending, Federal Communications Commission, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $1,166,746,603.87 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Des Moines-versus-Cedar Rapids folklore is not a metro split in this packet. A long award list is still a record count, including modifications. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has the FCC obligated in Iowa?

USAspending.gov records $1,166,746,603.87 in obligations for awarding agency 027 with Iowa place of performance, covering 5,785 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Federal Communications Commission's nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Does this total include every Iowa broadband award?

The extract lists 5,785 award actions totaling $1,166,746,603.87. Average obligation per award is about $201,684.81, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical universal-service award. Unique recipients are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is this a Des Moines-only FCC total?

No. $1,166,746,603.87 and 5,785 awards are statewide Iowa place of performance. This packet does not split Des Moines from Cedar Rapids or Sioux City. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live FCC-Iowa table?

Federal Communications Commission in Iowa is the overlay. Iowa federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Federal Communications Commission shows agency 027 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.