National Aeronautics and Space Administration federal obligations in Colorado 2nd District (CO-02)

Colorado 2nd District × NASA is a place-of-performance join, not a lab census

This page pairs awarding-agency 080, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with Colorado 2nd District (CO-02) place of performance. The join is awarding-agency 080 crossed with Colorado 2nd District (CO-02) place of performance, not Colorado’s statewide NASA book and not a census of labs. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $2,287,318,206.50 on 697 awards. The extract does not list labs, contractors, or instrument names. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which district has more need, and not a claim that 697 awards equal 697 labs or 697 contractors.

NASA on agency 080 in Colorado 7th District and DHS on 070 in Colorado 6th District on this slice are other pairs. Mixing those listings into $2,287,318,206.50 would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and aerospace employment is not causation. Payroll figures are not in the packet. Place of performance as Colorado 2nd District (CO-02) locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $2,287,318,206.50 in a district treasury. Boulder folklore is not a county split in this packet. A Boulder science-campus story is not a packet fact and does not explain the cell.

697 NASA awards behind the CO-02 obligation sum

Mean obligation is about $3,281,661.70 if $2,287,318,206.50 were divided evenly across 697 lines. That ratio is not a published center budget and not a cost per instrument. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of labs, instruments, or civil servants. The 697 rows are a high-volume civilian science file.

Six hundred ninety-seven lines are a high-volume agency file. Sort the Colorado 2nd District overlay by amount to see concentration. This page will not invent recipient names. Open Colorado 2nd District for the stored table. Do not convert 697 into a map of Front Range NASA sites. The $2,287,318,206.50 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines rather than inferring a laboratory census.

Agency 080 obligations in CO-02 are not instruments already delivered

NASA awards often obligate as contracts or grants and draw as project years proceed. The $2,287,318,206.50 headline is the obligation sum, not a punch-list of instruments delivered and not a Treasury outlay total. No fiscal year is attached. A NASA operating plan dated to a particular year is not automatically this join unless it uses agency 080, Colorado 2nd District (CO-02) geography, and the obligation metric.

The awarding-agency title is National Aeronautics and Space Administration (code 080). This extract does not split science from aeronautics, and it does not split primes from subs. Those cuts would require award documentation beyond dollars, 697 awards, agency 080, and Colorado 2nd District (CO-02). This page will not invent a share. CO-06’s DHS overlay on this slice uses agency 070, not 080.

What the CO-02 × agency 080 table omits

The extract has no labs, contractors, or instrument names. Facts remain $2,287,318,206.50, 697 awards, agency 080, and Colorado 2nd District (CO-02). This page will not invent a ranking against other districts’ agency-080 joins. CO-07’s NASA pair on this slice uses the same agency code and a different district tag.

Colorado federal spending and Colorado 2nd District place agency 080 among other listings. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the national agency hub. All spending ties indexes other district × agency pairs. Mixing those shelves would invent a share of federal spending the packet never computed. The $2,287,318,206.50 figure is the tagged pair only. Campaign-finance filings are a different public-record system; this join does not claim donations funded these obligations.

Where the NASA × Colorado 2nd District overlay lives

Start with Colorado 2nd District for the 697-award table behind $2,287,318,206.50. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the nationwide National Aeronautics and Space Administration hub. Colorado federal spending gives Colorado context. All spending ties is the shelf for other district-by-agency joins on the same obligation metric. Six hundred ninety-seven awards totaling $2,287,318,206.50 remain a high-volume awarding-agency file, not a lab census. Facility names and contractor UEIs are not in this packet. The $2,287,318,206.50 total is the tagged pair only. USAspending.gov remains the source; SpendingVault republishes the join. If a later extract revises the rollup, this page’s facts will be stale until the packet is rebuilt. Do not annualize $2,287,318,206.50: no fiscal year is in the facts.

How to read the CO-02 × NASA pair

A ties page exists because two tables meet. One table is awarding agency 080 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). The other is congressional-district place of performance as Colorado 2nd District (CO-02). The headline $2,287,318,206.50 is the obligation sum on that intersection, about 18.0 percent of the district’s $12,688,286,519.69 all-agency obligation book. It is not a forecast, not a budget request, and not an outlay. It is also not a claim that National Aeronautics and Space Administration caused Colorado 2nd District (CO-02)’s economy to grow. Correlation between geography and an awarding-agency code is the join — nothing more. Use the internal links to step off this pair. If you need award-level names, open the overlay rather than treating this narrative as a recipient directory.

Questions

How much NASA funding is obligated in Colorado 2nd District (CO-02)?

USAspending.gov shows $2,287,318,206.50 in obligations for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (agency 080) with Colorado 2nd District (CO-02) as place of performance, across 697 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not Colorado 2nd District (CO-02)’s full federal book. Other agencies tagged to CO-02 sit on separate pages.

Do 697 awards mean 697 NASA labs in CO-02?

No. Award count is a row count of USAspending actions and can include continuations and modifications. It is not a lab or contractor census. The packet does not name recipients. See the Colorado 2nd District overlay for named lines as USAspending stored them.

Does this include NASA awards in Colorado 7th District?

No. The join is agency 080 crossed with Colorado 2nd District (CO-02) place of performance. CO-07’s NASA pair is a separate geography key. Those dollars are not inside $2,287,318,206.50 unless the award also carries CO-02 geography.

Is the NASA total in CO-02 already spent on instruments?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $2,287,318,206.50 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Delivery schedules and remaining balances are not published in this packet.