NASA federal obligations in Pennsylvania

NASA obligations tagged to Pennsylvania

National Aeronautics and Space Administration as awarding agency, Pennsylvania as place-of-performance: 699 records summing to $837,110,704.11. A National Aeronautics and Space Administration award coded outside PA is out. An award in Pennsylvania from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Pennsylvania (PA) excludes New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia. A Camden-coded award is New Jersey even if the river story sounds similar.

Six hundred ninety-nine awards sit behind $837,110,704.11. That row count can mix large instruments with smaller modifications. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 699 as 699 unique launch pads, unique NASA centers, or a census of laboratories. The overlay National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Pennsylvania is the both-keys table. Pennsylvania federal spending is the all-agency state hub. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency book without an PA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg share one PA stamp. NASA mission directorates can share awarding-agency 080 without a published center pie. Correlation is not causation: Pennsylvania did not cause $837,110,704.11 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 080 × PA only.

699 rows are not 699 launch pads

$837,110,704.11 does not measure launch pads, unique NASA centers, or a census of laboratories. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 080 and an PA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 699 awards as a census of launch pads, unique NASA centers, or a census of laboratories. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Pennsylvania federal spending or National Aeronautics and Space Administration matched $837,110,704.11 and 699, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighbor-state NASA joins are other pairs, not addends. Dividing $837,110,704.11 by 699 yields about $1,197,583.27 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical NASA line and not a published median.

Pennsylvania, not a Mid-Atlantic NASA rollup

Place of performance PA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Pennsylvania (PA) excludes New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia. A Camden-coded award is New Jersey even if the river story sounds similar. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg share one PA stamp. This packet does not split $837,110,704.11 by city, county, or named facility. 699 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

A mid-count NASA file, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $837,110,704.11 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Pennsylvania confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Pennsylvania's own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 699-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 $837,110,704.11.

What this pair does not prove

A large NASA total in Pennsylvania does not mean the agency caused Pennsylvania's fiscal mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Keep $837,110,704.11 labeled as agency 080 obligations with Pennsylvania place of performance. Neighbor NASA cells among New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia are separate joins. This page does not rank Pennsylvania as a winner or loser.

Recipient names are unpublished in this packet. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to explain $837,110,704.11. Place-of-performance PA can differ from a vendor mailroom. A Camden-coded award is New Jersey even if the river story sounds similar. A later ingest can restate $837,110,704.11 and 699 without changing the join definition: awarding agency 080 crossed with Pennsylvania.

Citing NASA in Pennsylvania

Cite USAspending.gov: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (agency 080) obligated $837,110,704.11 on 699 awards coded to Pennsylvania. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as launch pads, unique NASA centers, or a census of laboratories.

Prefer National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Pennsylvania if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Pennsylvania federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to PA. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the 080 parent without the PA filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $837,110,704.11.

A usable footnote names National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Pennsylvania, $837,110,704.11, and 699. The implied mean near $1,197,583.27 is $837,110,704.11 divided by 699. 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 Pennsylvania?

USAspending.gov records $837,110,704.11 across 699 awards with awarding agency 080 and a Pennsylvania tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of launch pads, unique NASA centers, or a census of laboratories. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Pennsylvania is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $837,110,704.11.

Is $837,110,704.11 a measure of launch pads?

No. The packet publishes $837,110,704.11 and 699 awards for agency 080 inside PA 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 $1,197,583.27, a ratio of two packet facts.

Is this a Philadelphia-only NASA total?

No. $837,110,704.11 and 699 awards are statewide Pennsylvania place of performance. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg share one PA 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–Pennsylvania table?

National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Pennsylvania is the overlay. Pennsylvania 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 $837,110,704.11. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.