NASA federal obligations in the District of Columbia

NASA obligations tagged to the District of Columbia

National Aeronautics and Space Administration as awarding agency, District of Columbia as place-of-performance: 787 records summing to $945,498,056.65. A National Aeronautics and Space Administration award coded outside DC is out. An award in District of Columbia from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. District of Columbia (DC) excludes Maryland and Virginia. An Arlington-coded award is Virginia; a Bethesda-coded award is Maryland.

Seven hundred eighty-seven awards sit behind $945,498,056.65. That row count can mix large instruments with smaller modifications. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 787 as 787 unique launch pads, unique NASA centers, or a census of headquarters buildings. The overlay National Aeronautics and Space Administration in District of Columbia is the both-keys table. District of Columbia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency book without an DC filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Washington and the District’s wards share one DC stamp. NASA mission directorates can share awarding-agency 080 without a published center pie. Correlation is not causation: District of Columbia did not cause $945,498,056.65 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 080 × DC only.

787 rows are not 787 launch pads

$945,498,056.65 does not measure launch pads, unique NASA centers, or a census of headquarters buildings. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 080 and an DC place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 787 awards as a census of launch pads, unique NASA centers, or a census of headquarters buildings. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If District of Columbia federal spending or National Aeronautics and Space Administration matched $945,498,056.65 and 787, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighbor-state NASA joins are other pairs, not addends. Dividing $945,498,056.65 by 787 yields about $1,201,395.24 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical NASA line and not a published median.

District of Columbia, not a National Capital NASA rollup

Place of performance DC is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. District of Columbia (DC) excludes Maryland and Virginia. An Arlington-coded award is Virginia; a Bethesda-coded award is Maryland. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Washington and the District’s wards share one DC stamp. This packet does not split $945,498,056.65 by city, county, or named facility. 787 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Headquarters geography, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $945,498,056.65 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in District of Columbia confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

District of Columbia's own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 787-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $945,498,056.65.

What this pair does not prove

A large NASA total in District of Columbia does not mean the agency caused District of Columbia's fiscal mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Keep $945,498,056.65 labeled as agency 080 obligations with District of Columbia place of performance. Neighbor NASA cells among Maryland and Virginia are separate joins. This page does not rank District of Columbia as a winner or loser.

Recipient names are unpublished in this packet. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to explain $945,498,056.65. Place-of-performance DC can differ from a vendor mailroom. An Arlington-coded award is Virginia; a Bethesda-coded award is Maryland. A later ingest can restate $945,498,056.65 and 787 without changing the join definition: awarding agency 080 crossed with District of Columbia.

Citing NASA in the District of Columbia

Cite USAspending.gov: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (agency 080) obligated $945,498,056.65 on 787 awards coded to District of Columbia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as launch pads, unique NASA centers, or a census of headquarters buildings.

Prefer National Aeronautics and Space Administration in District of Columbia if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. District of Columbia federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to DC. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the 080 parent without the DC filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $945,498,056.65.

A usable footnote names National Aeronautics and Space Administration, District of Columbia, $945,498,056.65, and 787. The implied mean near $1,201,395.24 is $945,498,056.65 divided by 787. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset; they do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has the National Aeronautics and Space Administration obligated in District of Columbia?

USAspending.gov records $945,498,056.65 across 787 awards with awarding agency 080 and a District of Columbia tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of launch pads, unique NASA centers, or a census of headquarters buildings. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in District of Columbia is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $945,498,056.65.

Is $945,498,056.65 a measure of launch pads?

No. The packet publishes $945,498,056.65 and 787 awards for agency 080 inside DC coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays. The implied mean is about $1,201,395.24, a ratio of two packet facts.

Is this a a single-ward NASA total?

No. $945,498,056.65 and 787 awards are statewide District of Columbia place of performance. Washington and the District’s wards share one DC stamp. This packet does not publish a city split. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live NASA–District of Columbia table?

National Aeronautics and Space Administration in District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia federal spending and National Aeronautics and Space Administration are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $945,498,056.65. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.