National Aeronautics and Space Administration federal obligations in Maryland 3rd District (MD-03)

Maryland 3rd District × NASA is a place-of-performance join, not a lab census

This page pairs awarding-agency 080, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with Maryland 3rd District (MD-03) place of performance. The join is awarding-agency 080 crossed with Maryland 3rd District (MD-03) place of performance, not Maryland’s statewide science book and not a census of labs. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $3,400,772,117.18 on 233 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 233 awards equal 233 labs or 233 contractors.

EPA on agency 068 in MD-03 on this slice is a different awarding agency; those dollars are not a NASA subset. Mixing those listings into $3,400,772,117.18 would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and federal science employment is not causation. Headcount figures are not in the packet. Place of performance as Maryland 3rd District (MD-03) locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $3,400,772,117.18 in a district treasury. Annapolis-versus-Baltimore folklore is not a metro split in this packet. A Beltway science-campus story is not a packet fact and does not explain the cell.

233 NASA awards behind the MD-03 obligation sum

Mean obligation is about $14,595,588.49 if $3,400,772,117.18 were divided evenly across 233 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 233 rows are a mid-volume civilian science file.

Two hundred thirty-three lines are a mid-volume agency file. Sort the Maryland 3rd District overlay by amount to see concentration. This page will not invent recipient names. Open Maryland 3rd District for the stored table. Do not convert 233 into a map of Maryland NASA facilities. The $3,400,772,117.18 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines rather than inferring a laboratory census.

Agency 080 obligations in MD-03 are not instruments already delivered

NASA awards often obligate as contracts or grants and draw as project years proceed. The $3,400,772,117.18 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, Maryland 3rd District (MD-03) geography, and the obligation metric.

The awarding-agency title is National Aeronautics and Space Administration (code 080). This extract does not split Goddard-style work from HQ-style work, and it does not name either. Those cuts would require award documentation beyond dollars, 233 awards, agency 080, and Maryland 3rd District (MD-03). This page will not invent a share. CO-07’s NASA overlay on this slice uses the same agency code and a different district tag.

What the MD-03 × agency 080 table omits

The extract has no labs, contractors, or instrument names. Facts remain $3,400,772,117.18, 233 awards, agency 080, and Maryland 3rd District (MD-03). This page will not invent a ranking against other districts’ agency-080 joins. EPA’s MD-03 pair on this slice uses agency 068, not 080.

Maryland federal spending and Maryland 3rd 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 $3,400,772,117.18 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 × Maryland 3rd District overlay lives

Start with Maryland 3rd District for the 233-award table behind $3,400,772,117.18. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the nationwide National Aeronautics and Space Administration hub. Maryland federal spending gives Maryland context. All spending ties is the shelf for other district-by-agency joins on the same obligation metric. Two hundred thirty-three awards totaling $3,400,772,117.18 remain an awarding-agency file, not a lab census. Facility names and contractor UEIs are not in this packet. The $3,400,772,117.18 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 $3,400,772,117.18: no fiscal year is in the facts.

How to read the MD-03 × 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 Maryland 3rd District (MD-03). The headline $3,400,772,117.18 is the obligation sum on that intersection, about 10.8 percent of the district’s $31,356,776,634.33 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 Maryland 3rd District (MD-03)’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 Maryland 3rd District (MD-03)?

USAspending.gov shows $3,400,772,117.18 in obligations for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (agency 080) with Maryland 3rd District (MD-03) as place of performance, across 233 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not Maryland 3rd District (MD-03)’s full federal book. Other agencies tagged to MD-03 sit on separate pages.

Do 233 awards mean 233 NASA labs in MD-03?

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 Maryland 3rd District overlay for named lines as USAspending stored them.

Does this include EPA awards in MD-03?

No. This page is awarding-agency 080 only. EPA in Maryland 3rd District sits on agency 068 as a separate join. Those dollars are not inside $3,400,772,117.18 unless the award also carries agency 080. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Is the NASA total in MD-03 already spent on instruments?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $3,400,772,117.18 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Delivery schedules and remaining balances are not published in this packet.