National Aeronautics and Space Administration obligations in Virginia 3rd District (VA-03)

NASA × VA-03 is a Hampton Roads join, not a named-center roster

This page is a join: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (agency 080) as awarding agency, and Virginia 3rd District (VA-03) as congressional district place of performance. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations to $1,385,788,608.31 on 358 awards. The join is awarding-agency 080 crossed with a VA-03 location field, not Virginia’s entire civil-space budget and not a named-center inventory. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which district received more, and not a claim that 358 awards equal 358 missions, centers, or unique contractors.

DoD space work, Commerce, or NASA-coded awards in VA-02 sit outside this total unless they also carry agency 080 and VA-03. Mixing those books into $1,385,788,608.31 would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and shipyard or center employment is not causation. Payroll and facility headcounts are not in the packet. Place of performance as VA-03 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $1,385,788,608.31 in a district treasury. Peninsula-versus-southside folklore is not a geography split in this packet.

358 awards behind $1.39 billion

Mean obligation is about $3,870,917.90 if $1,385,788,608.31 were divided evenly across 358 lines. That ratio is not a published mission cost and not a typical prime-contract size. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of launches, centers, or unique vendors. Three hundred fifty-eight awards against a $1.39 billion cell is a moderate NASA file inside a very large district parent, so the NASA slice is a small share of the local book.

The overlay can list named lines; this narrative will not invent centers or primes. This page will not invent contractor or recipient names. Open Virginia 3rd District for the stored district table. Do not convert 358 into a map of Virginia 3rd District laboratories. The $1,385,788,608.31 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on the overlay rather than inferring a center census.

Virginia 3rd District, not a Tidewater space rollup

Virginia 3rd District (VA-03) is one geography tag on USAspending awards, not a commuting zone and not a metro list. Awards tagged to VA-02, VA-04, or another Virginia district are out even if the waterbody sounds related. Recipient address can differ from that district tag. The district parent in this extract is $91,489,301,996.56 across every awarding agency; $1,385,788,608.31 is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration slice — about 1.5% of that parent by arithmetic. Subtracting is tempting; this page still does not publish the leftover agency list.

A statewide NASA figure on Virginia federal spending mixes every district. The VA-03 all-agency parent is far larger than this NASA cell. Do not rank VA-03 against neighboring districts as a winner or loser. Other Virginia district cells are other joins. Virginia federal spending is the statewide book without a district filter. Adding statewide National Aeronautics and Space Administration dollars to $1,385,788,608.31 would double count. Campaign-finance filings are a different public-record system; this join does not claim donations funded these obligations.

Agency 080 obligations are not launches already flown

NASA awards often obligate as contracts and assistance rows and draw as work proceeds. The $1,385,788,608.31 headline is the obligation sum, not a punch-list of flights completed and not a Treasury outlay total. A civil-space procurement dashboard dated to a particular year is not automatically this join unless it uses agency 080, VA-03 geography, and the obligation metric.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the nationwide agency book without a VA-03 filter. This extract does not split science from exploration, and it does not split centers from primes. Those cuts would require award documentation beyond dollars, 358 awards, agency 080, and Virginia 3rd District. This page will not invent a share. Unique recipients remain unpublished.

What the VA-03 NASA table omits

The extract has no center names, primes, or mission titles. Facts remain $1,385,788,608.31, 358 awards, agency 080, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Virginia 3rd District (VA-03), and district parent $91,489,301,996.56. Mission folklore belongs on another extract if it appears at all. Keep the obligation label. Later ingests can revise both the dollars and the 358-award count; prefer the live table when the overlay and this snapshot diverge.

Where the NASA × VA-03 pair lives

Start with Virginia 3rd District for the district rollup that contains this National Aeronautics and Space Administration cell. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the nationwide agency listing. Virginia federal spending gives Virginia context without a VA-03 filter. All spending ties indexes other two-key joins on the same obligation metric. 358 awards totaling this cell remain an administrative file, not a launch calendar. Keep both National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Virginia 3rd District (VA-03) in every citation sentence. Do not recast $1,385,788,608.31 as cash already paid or as Virginia’s entire space appropriation. USAspending.gov remains the source; SpendingVault republishes the join.

Questions

How much NASA spending is obligated in Virginia 3rd District?

USAspending.gov shows $1,385,788,608.31 in National Aeronautics and Space Administration (agency 080) obligations with Virginia 3rd District (VA-03) as place of performance, across 358 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district’s full $91,489,301,996.56 parent. Other agencies sit outside this join unless they also carry 080.

Do 358 awards mean 358 NASA contractors in VA-03?

No. Award count is a row count of National Aeronautics and Space Administration actions tagged to VA-03. It is not a vendor or mission census. Mean obligation of about $3,870,917.90 is a quotient of $1,385,788,608.31 and 358, not a typical contract.

Does this NASA cell include the VA-04 Commerce join?

No. Commerce is awarding agency 013, a different district pair. $1,385,788,608.31 is about 1.5% of the Virginia 3rd District parent $91,489,301,996.56 by arithmetic — a small slice of a very large district book.

Is the VA-03 NASA total already paid as outlays?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $1,385,788,608.31 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Claim draws and remaining balances are not published here.