National Aeronautics and Space Administration obligations in Colorado 4th District (CO-04)

A place-of-performance join: NASA × CO-04

Awarding agency 080 and congressional district CO-04 meet here. $14,905,677,799.61 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 Colorado 4th District (CO-04), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split NASA centers, missions, or contract versus assistance instruments. 11 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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 $14,905,677,799.61 by 11 yields about $1,355,061,618.15 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. Eleven awards against a fourteen-billion-dollar NASA cell is an extreme concentration of rows. Do not read 11 as eleven unique vendors; the packet does not publish recipient identity. Do not treat CO-04’s 080 cell as a synonym for every NASA account nationwide. Open Colorado 4th District for the district table without this agency filter, National Aeronautics and Space Administration for agency 080 without the CO-04 filter, Colorado federal spending for every awarding agency in the Colorado extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $14,905,677,799.61.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration as awarding agency, not as a named-vendor list

USAspending labels awarding agency 080 as National Aeronautics and Space Administration. That code produced $14,905,677,799.61 when crossed with Colorado 4th District (CO-04) place of performance. The agency-wide 080 hub does not require CO-04 geography. The district hub does not require NASA. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 11 awards. The packet does not split NASA centers, missions, or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Colorado 4th District (CO-04) did not “cause” $14,905,677,799.61 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 080 × CO-04 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.

Place of performance for Colorado 4th District (CO-04)

Colorado 4th District (CO-04) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list CO-04 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Colorado districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 080. Colorado 4th District (CO-04) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Colorado. Other Colorado districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 080. Colorado 4th District (CO-04) is a numbered place-of-performance code inside Colorado. Other Colorado districts, including those with Energy rather than NASA filters, are different joins.

Obligation math for this join

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $14,905,677,799.61 is that kind of sum for National Aeronautics and Space Administration inside CO-04 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 $14,905,677,799.61 as given.

Colorado’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 11-row NASA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 11 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 ($1,355,061,618.15) is a concentration statistic, not a typical CO-04 NASA payment.

What a complete citation includes

Cite USAspending.gov: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (agency 080) obligated $14,905,677,799.61 on 11 awards coded to Colorado 4th District (CO-04). Name National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Colorado 4th District (CO-04) together. Keep the obligation word. If Colorado 4th 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. 65.6% of $22,721,014,071.34 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Using 65.6% and $1,355,061,618.15 without overclaiming

Eleven awards against a fourteen-billion-dollar NASA cell is an extreme concentration of rows. Do not read 11 as eleven unique vendors; the packet does not publish recipient identity. 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 $1,355,061,618.15) and the district share (65.6% of $22,721,014,071.34) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Colorado 4th District and National Aeronautics and Space Administration if the live tables moved.

Do not rank Colorado 4th District (CO-04) as more NASA-dependent than neighboring districts on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 080 ties with different dollar totals, or no published 080 cell in this harvest. This snapshot holds $14,905,677,799.61 and 11 only. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much NASA spending is coded to Colorado 4th District (CO-04)?

USAspending.gov lists $14,905,677,799.61 in National Aeronautics and Space Administration obligations across 11 awards with place of performance in Colorado 4th District (CO-04). Agency 080 × CO-04 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Colorado’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 65.6% of the district’s published total ($22,721,014,071.34). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $1,355,061,618.15, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does $14,905,677,799.61 include every NASA program in CO-04?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split NASA centers, missions, or contract versus assistance instruments. $14,905,677,799.61 is the combined obligation sum for agency 080 inside CO-04 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Colorado 4th District to inspect parent tables. 11 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $14,905,677,799.61 cash already paid in Colorado 4th District (CO-04)?

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 $14,905,677,799.61 as checks already cleared in Colorado 4th District (CO-04) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 11 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

Is Colorado 4th District (CO-04) ranked against other Colorado districts here?

No. This page does not rank Colorado 4th District (CO-04) as a winner or loser. $14,905,677,799.61 and 11 describe one join. Neighboring districts have their own cells. District 90/98 placeholders are omitted. Cite National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Colorado 4th District (CO-04) together without a league table.