Federal Communications Commission federal obligations in Virginia

What the FCC-Virginia join is

Awarding agency 027 and place-of-performance state VA meet here. $1,131,391,037.13 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Federal Communications Commission's nationwide budget, not Virginia's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Northern-Virginia telecom, rural-broadband, and statewide tower folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a census of Virginia households online.

3,991 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 Virginia against other states and does not name carriers inside the extract.

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

3,991 FCC actions under one Virginia filter

Dividing $1,131,391,037.13 by 3,991 yields about $283,485.60 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 Virginia's 027 total as a synonym for every FCC account.

Northern-virginia telecom, rural-broadband, 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 Virginia overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Federal Communications Commission page aggregates 027 without requiring VA geography. The Virginia federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Virginia place of performance. Only Federal Communications Commission in Virginia applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 3,991 awards and $1,131,391,037.13.

Place of performance in Virginia is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list VA while later work occurs in Maryland or D.C. FCC awards coded to those jurisdictions do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in Arlington. This packet does not split Northern Virginia from Richmond or Hampton Roads.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $1,131,391,037.13 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 Virginia over-reads the field.

Award count 3,991 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Virginia-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 Virginia does not mean the commission caused Virginia's connectivity mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between telecom geography and FCC awards is expected; it is not a finding about broadband quality or waste.

Keep $1,131,391,037.13 labeled as agency 027 obligations with Virginia 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 Virginia-FCC pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 027 (Federal Communications Commission), Virginia place of performance, $1,131,391,037.13 in obligations, and 3,991 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $1,131,391,037.13 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $283,485.60 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical universal-service award.

Federal Communications Commission in Virginia, Virginia federal spending, Federal Communications Commission, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $1,131,391,037.13 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Northern Virginia-versus-Richmond 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 Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $1,131,391,037.13 in obligations for awarding agency 027 with Virginia place of performance, covering 3,991 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 Virginia broadband award?

The extract lists 3,991 award actions totaling $1,131,391,037.13. Average obligation per award is about $283,485.60, 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 Northern Virginia-only FCC total?

No. $1,131,391,037.13 and 3,991 awards are statewide Virginia place of performance. This packet does not split Northern Virginia from Richmond or Hampton Roads. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live FCC-Virginia table?

Federal Communications Commission in Virginia is the overlay. Virginia 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.