NASA federal obligations in Utah

A thin NASA file on a Utah tag

National Aeronautics and Space Administration as awarding agency, Utah as place-of-performance: 151 records summing to $4,547,316,742.75. A National Aeronautics and Space Administration award coded outside UT is out. An award in Utah from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Utah (UT) excludes Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, and Wyoming. A Colorado-coded NASA award is not this cell even if a vendor’s mailroom sits along I-15.

One hundred fifty-one awards against $4,547,316,742.75 is a thin, high-mean NASA file: few rows, large vehicles. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 151 as 151 unique launches, unique contractors, or named propulsion plants. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Utah is the both-keys table. Utah federal spending is the all-agency state hub. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency book without a UT filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Promontory and Wasatch Range contractor folklore is unpublished. $4,547,316,742.75 stays on the UT tag, not a named plant. Correlation is not causation: Utah did not cause $4,547,316,742.75 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 080 × UT only. Campaign contributions do not fund these USAspending awards.

151 rows are not 151 launches

$4,547,316,742.75 does not measure launches, unique contractors, or named propulsion plants. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 080 and a UT place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 151 awards as a census of launches, unique contractors, or named propulsion plants. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Utah federal spending or National Aeronautics and Space Administration matched $4,547,316,742.75 and 151, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Colorado, Nevada, and Idaho NASA joins are other pairs, not addends.

Utah, not a Great Basin space corridor

Place of performance UT is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Utah (UT) excludes Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, and Wyoming. A Colorado-coded NASA award is not this cell even if a vendor’s mailroom sits along I-15. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Promontory and Wasatch Range contractor folklore is unpublished. $4,547,316,742.75 stays on the UT tag, not a named plant. This packet does not split $4,547,316,742.75 by city, county, or named facility. 151 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

High-mean vehicles still record obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $4,547,316,742.75 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Utah confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Utah’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 151-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 $4,547,316,742.75. The compact headline $4.55 billion is that same dollar total rounded, not a second extract.

Citing NASA in Utah

Cite USAspending.gov: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (agency 080) obligated $4,547,316,742.75 on 151 awards coded to Utah. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as launches, unique contractors, or named propulsion plants.

Prefer National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Utah if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Utah federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to UT. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the 080 parent without the UT filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $4,547,316,742.75. The implied mean near $30.11 million is $4,547,316,742.75 divided by 151. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

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

USAspending.gov records $4,547,316,742.75 across 151 awards with awarding agency 080 and an Utah tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of launches, unique contractors, or named propulsion plants. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Utah is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $4,547,316,742.75.

Is $4,547,316,742.75 a measure of launches, unique contractors, or named propulsion plants?

No. The packet publishes $4,547,316,742.75 and 151 awards for agency 080 inside UT 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 151 awards?

That is the award-record count for 080 × UT. Combined with $4,547,316,742.75, the average is about $30.11 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 151 is not unique launches, unique contractors, or named propulsion plants. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live NASA–Utah table?

National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Utah is the overlay. Utah 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 $4,547,316,742.75. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.