Federal Communications Commission federal obligations in Tennessee

What the FCC-Tennessee join is

Awarding agency 027 and place-of-performance state TN meet here. $1,133,555,248.48 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Federal Communications Commission's nationwide budget, not Tennessee'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 Tennessee households online.

4,317 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 Tennessee against other states and does not name carriers inside the extract.

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

4,317 FCC actions under one Tennessee filter

Dividing $1,133,555,248.48 by 4,317 yields about $262,579.40 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical universal-service award. A second FCC slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Tennessee's 027 total as a synonym for every FCC account.

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 a Tennessee overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Federal Communications Commission page aggregates 027 without requiring TN geography. The Tennessee federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Tennessee place of performance. Only Federal Communications Commission in Tennessee applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 4,317 awards and $1,133,555,248.48.

Place of performance in Tennessee is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list TN while later work occurs in Kentucky or Alabama. FCC awards coded to those states do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in Nashville. This packet does not split Nashville from Memphis or Knoxville.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $1,133,555,248.48 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 Tennessee over-reads the field.

Award count 4,317 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Tennessee-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 Tennessee does not mean the commission caused Tennessee'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 $1,133,555,248.48 labeled as agency 027 obligations with Tennessee 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 Tennessee-FCC pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 027 (Federal Communications Commission), Tennessee place of performance, $1,133,555,248.48 in obligations, and 4,317 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $1,133,555,248.48 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $262,579.40 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical universal-service award.

Federal Communications Commission in Tennessee, Tennessee federal spending, Federal Communications Commission, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $1,133,555,248.48 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Nashville-versus-Memphis folklore is not a metro split in this packet. Carrier 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 the FCC obligated in Tennessee?

USAspending.gov records $1,133,555,248.48 in obligations for awarding agency 027 with Tennessee place of performance, covering 4,317 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 Tennessee broadband award?

The extract lists 4,317 award actions totaling $1,133,555,248.48. Average obligation per award is about $262,579.40, 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 Nashville-only FCC total?

No. $1,133,555,248.48 and 4,317 awards are statewide Tennessee place of performance. This packet does not split Nashville from Memphis or Knoxville. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live FCC-Tennessee table?

Federal Communications Commission in Tennessee is the overlay. Tennessee 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.