National Aeronautics and Space Administration obligations in Alabama 5th District (AL-05)

What the NASA–AL-05 join is

Awarding agency 080 and congressional district AL-05 meet here. $16,699,966,046 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Alabama 5th District (AL-05), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split NASA centers, missions, or contract versus assistance instruments. 558 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a center census, a mission catalog, a launch manifest, or a named-contractor file.

Dividing $16,699,966,046 by 558 yields about $29,928,254.56 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 558 rows is a mid-size NASA action file: large enough that modifications can inflate the count, small enough that a few high-dollar instruments can still move the mean. Do not treat AL-05’s 080 cell as a synonym for every NASA account nationwide. Open Alabama 5th District for the district table without this agency filter, National Aeronautics and Space Administration for agency 080 without the AL-05 filter, Alabama federal spending for every awarding agency in the Alabama extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $16,699,966,046.

Awarding agency 080 as the NASA side

USAspending labels awarding agency 080 as National Aeronautics and Space Administration. That code produced $16,699,966,046 when crossed with Alabama 5th District (AL-05) place of performance. The agency-wide 080 hub does not require AL-05 geography. The district hub does not require NASA. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 558 awards. The packet does not split NASA centers, missions, or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Alabama 5th District (AL-05) did not “cause” $16,699,966,046 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 080 × AL-05 only. It is not a center census, a mission catalog, a launch manifest, or a named-contractor file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.

Alabama 5th District (AL-05) as place of performance

Alabama 5th District (AL-05) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list AL-05 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Alabama districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 080. Alabama 5th District (AL-05) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Alabama. Other Alabama districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 080. Alabama 5th District (AL-05) is a numbered place-of-performance stamp inside Alabama, not a claim that work stayed inside one county cluster. Other Alabama districts keep their own NASA or non-NASA cells.

Alabama federal spending shows how agency 080 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $16,699,966,046 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Alabama 5th District (AL-05) by county, city, or census tract. Awards that carry a different awarding-agency code stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The district-wide obligation total published here is $98,271,183,994.60; $16,699,966,046 is the NASA slice of that denominator.

Obligations, not outlays

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $16,699,966,046 is that kind of sum for National Aeronautics and Space Administration inside AL-05 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $16,699,966,046 as given.

Alabama’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 558-row NASA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 558 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. The implied mean ($29,928,254.56) is a concentration statistic, not a typical AL-05 NASA payment.

How to cite NASA in AL-05

Cite USAspending.gov: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (agency 080) obligated $16,699,966,046 on 558 awards coded to Alabama 5th District (AL-05). Name National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Alabama 5th District (AL-05) together. Keep the obligation word. If Alabama 5th District or National Aeronautics and Space Administration has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a center census, a mission catalog, a launch manifest, or a named-contractor file. 17.0% of $98,271,183,994.60 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Keep National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Alabama 5th District (AL-05), $16,699,966,046, and 558 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the 080 parent without a AL-05 filter. Alabama federal spending is the Alabama parent. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a district with NASA does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending join.

Reading a moderate NASA file in AL-05

558 rows is a mid-size NASA action file: large enough that modifications can inflate the count, small enough that a few high-dollar instruments can still move the mean. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $29,928,254.56) and the district share (17.0% of $98,271,183,994.60) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Alabama 5th District and National Aeronautics and Space Administration if the live tables moved.

Questions

How much NASA spending is coded to Alabama 5th District (AL-05)?

USAspending.gov lists $16,699,966,046 in National Aeronautics and Space Administration obligations across 558 awards with place of performance in Alabama 5th District (AL-05). Agency 080 × AL-05 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Alabama’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 17.0% of the district’s published total ($98,271,183,994.60). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $29,928,254.56, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does $16,699,966,046 include every NASA program in AL-05?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split NASA centers, missions, or contract versus assistance instruments. $16,699,966,046 is the combined obligation sum for agency 080 inside AL-05 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Alabama 5th District to inspect parent tables. 558 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $16,699,966,046 cash already paid in Alabama 5th District (AL-05)?

No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $16,699,966,046 as checks already cleared in Alabama 5th District (AL-05) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 558 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

Where is the live NASA–AL-05 table?

Alabama 5th District is the district parent and National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency parent. Alabama federal spending covers Alabama without the district×agency intersection as the headline. All spending ties lists other pairs. Those hubs are not addends. Keep both sides of the join when citing $16,699,966,046. Place of performance is AL-05. Obligations are not outlays.