National Aeronautics and Space Administration federal obligations in Massachusetts

NASA awards tagged to Massachusetts

National Aeronautics and Space Administration as awarding agency, Massachusetts as place-of-performance: 1,428 records summing to $2,285,207,424.63. A National Aeronautics and Space Administration award coded outside MA is out. An award in Massachusetts from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Massachusetts (MA) excludes New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. A Nashua-coded award is NH even if a lab later invoices from Cambridge. Centers and mission directorates inside NASA are unpublished splits on awarding agency 080.

One thousand four hundred twenty-eight awards is a mid-count NASA file: thicker than a thin State Department cell, still a record count rather than unique labs. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,428 as 1,428 unique named centers, unique contractors, or principal investigators. The overlay National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Massachusetts is the both-keys table. Massachusetts federal spending is the all-agency state hub. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency book without an MA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

MIT, Harvard, and a Route 128 contractor story are ordinary speech, not published shares of $2,285,207,424.63. Correlation is not causation: Massachusetts did not “cause” $2,285,207,424.63 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 080 × MA only.

Not a Cambridge lab roster or PI census

$2,285,207,424.63 does not measure named centers, unique contractors, or principal investigators. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 080 and an MA place-of-performance tag. Centers and mission directorates inside NASA are unpublished splits on awarding agency 080.

Do not treat 1,428 awards as a census of named centers, unique contractors, or principal investigators. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Massachusetts federal spending or National Aeronautics and Space Administration matched $2,285,207,424.63 and 1,428, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. New Hampshire, Connecticut, and New York NASA joins are other pairs, not addends.

Massachusetts statewide, not a Route 128 map

Place of performance MA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Massachusetts (MA) excludes New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. A Nashua-coded award is NH even if a lab later invoices from Cambridge. Recipient address can differ from that state tag. Boston, Cambridge, Worcester, and the rest of the counties share one MA stamp.

MIT, Harvard, and a Route 128 contractor story are ordinary speech, not published shares of $2,285,207,424.63. This packet does not split $2,285,207,424.63 by city, county, or named facility. 1,428 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Contract obligations versus invoices already paid

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $2,285,207,424.63 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Massachusetts confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Massachusetts’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,428-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 $2,285,207,424.63.

Citing NASA in Massachusetts

Cite USAspending.gov: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (agency 080) obligated $2,285,207,424.63 on 1,428 awards coded to Massachusetts. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as named centers, unique contractors, or principal investigators.

Prefer National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Massachusetts if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Massachusetts federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to MA. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the 080 parent without the MA filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,285,207,424.63. A usable footnote names National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Massachusetts, $2,285,207,424.63, and 1,428. The compact headline $2.29 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1.60 million is $2,285,207,424.63 divided by 1,428. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the National Aeronautics and Space Administration obligated in Massachusetts?

USAspending.gov records $2,285,207,424.63 across 1,428 awards with awarding agency 080 and a Massachusetts tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of named centers, unique contractors, or principal investigators. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Massachusetts is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,285,207,424.63.

Is $2,285,207,424.63 a measure of named centers, unique contractors, or principal investigators?

No. The packet publishes $2,285,207,424.63 and 1,428 awards for agency 080 inside MA coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this NASA file have 1,428 awards?

That is the award-record count for 080 × MA. Combined with $2,285,207,424.63, the average is about $1.60 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,428 is not unique named centers, unique contractors, or principal investigators. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live NASA–Massachusetts table?

National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Massachusetts is the overlay. Massachusetts 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 $2,285,207,424.63. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.