NASA federal obligations in Louisiana

NASA dollars tagged to Louisiana

One hundred twenty-three awards totaling $6,602,202,741.45 is a thin, high-mean join. Spaceflight and propulsion work often sits in a small number of large contracts, but the facts do not name centers, vehicles, or contractors. This page does not assign the $6.60 billion to a particular facility.

The join is agency 080 plus Louisiana place of performance. It is not a ranking of states as space hubs, and it is not a count of launches.

Louisiana NASA’s 123 awards totaling $6,602,202,741.45 will attract facility-name guesses. This packet does not confirm them. Place of performance LA is the only geography. Contractor names, vehicle names, and center names are absent. $6,602,202,741.45 is the unsplit 080 cell.

Awarding agency 080

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration hub is nationwide. Louisiana’s $6,602,202,741.45 is the LA geography slice. Awards coded to other states — including those that support the same mission — stay off this page if place of performance is not Louisiana.

Overlay /states/la/agencies/080/ matches 123 awards. Readers should treat that overlay as the live table rather than a separately researched inventory of NASA sites.

Louisiana place of performance

LA as a tag can include any locality the awards list. The $6,602,202,741.45 sum has no parish split in the facts. The Louisiana federal spending hub is the parent for all awarding agencies, of which NASA is one.

Place of performance is not the same as where every subcontractor works. Dollars can be tagged to Louisiana while some activity occurs elsewhere, and the reverse.

Louisiana federal spending is the parent hub. NASA is one awarding agency there. Other agencies’ Louisiana cells are different codes and different row counts. $6,602,202,741.45 is not the state’s entire federal footprint. The mean near $53.68 million flags concentration; it does not name the concentrated rows.

Concentration in 123 awards

A mean near $53.68 million means a handful of rows can dominate the total. Without a top-award list, that remains a structural observation from the ratio, not a named vendor ranking. 123 is a record count, not a count of missions.

$6,602,202,741.45 is obligations, not outlays. Multi-year space contracts often commit funding that pays out later. No fiscal year is in the facts.

Louisiana NASA’s 123 awards totaling $6,602,202,741.45 remain unallocated to named centers. The mean near $53.68 million is a concentration flag. 123 is not a launch count. Subcontractor geography can differ from place of performance LA. The statewide parent hub lists other agencies. $6,602,202,741.45 is 080 only. Obligations on multi-year space contracts are still not outlays.

What the pair does not claim

This join does not say NASA spending caused Louisiana employment change, and it does not evaluate mission success. It records co-occurrence of agency 080 and state LA on 123 awards. Campaign-finance data is not used.

See National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Louisiana, Louisiana federal spending, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and All spending ties.

One hundred twenty-three NASA awards under $6,602,202,741.45 is a thin, high-mean table. Public discussion often names Louisiana facilities; this packet does not. Assigning $6.60 billion to a named center would invent a share. Other awarding agencies in Louisiana sit on the state parent hub, not in this 080 cell.

Louisiana NASA overlay without a facility map

National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Louisiana is the overlay. Louisiana federal spending is the parent. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is agency 080 nationwide. All spending ties lists other pairs. Those links keep 123 NASA records from being mistaken for every federal dollar in Louisiana or every NASA dollar nationwide.

The mean near $53.68 million follows from dividing $6,602,202,741.45 by 123. A few rows can dominate. They are unnamed. 123 is not a launch count or a mission count. Place of performance LA does not locate every subcontractor. Obligations on space contracts often span years; outlays are unreported. No fiscal year is in the facts. The pair does not evaluate mission success or employment effects.

Anyone citing $6,602,202,741.45 should keep agency 080 and Louisiana attached so a named center is not treated as the whole cell. The 123-award count flags concentration. Continue at the NASA overlay, the Louisiana hub, the national NASA profile, and the ties index. Facility names, vehicle names, and contractor names are absent from the packet. Obligations on multi-year work are still not outlays.

Questions

How much has NASA obligated in Louisiana?

USAspending records $6,602,202,741.45 in agency 080 obligations with Louisiana place of performance, across 123 awards. That is an obligation aggregate, not outlays and not a list of missions.

Which NASA center does this funding go to?

The facts do not name centers or facilities. $6,602,202,741.45 is the full agency 080 and Louisiana place-of-performance total.

Why is the average award about $54 million?

Dividing $6,602,202,741.45 by 123 awards yields about $53.68 million. A small row count under a large dollar total produces that mean. It is not a median contract.

Is this Louisiana’s entire federal space-related spending?

It is NASA (agency 080) in Louisiana only. Other awarding agencies appear on other Louisiana ties. The statewide hub is the parent for all agencies.