National Aeronautics and Space Administration federal obligations in Virginia

What the NASA–Virginia join is

Awarding agency 080 and place-of-performance state VA meet here. $9,355,403,830.79 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Virginia, and not an outlay register. Space, aeronautics, and related instruments can all sit under awarding agency 080. The packet does not name centers, launch sites, or contractors. 2,654 is a relatively thin action file: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Dividing $9,355,403,830.79 by 2,654 yields about $3.53 million per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line, and it is not a launch calendar, not a center payroll, and not a contractor roster. A second NASA slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Virginia’s 080 cell as a synonym for every NASA account.

Open National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Virginia for the live filtered table, Virginia federal spending for every awarding agency in the state extract, National Aeronautics and Space Administration for agency 080 without a Virginia filter, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $9,355,403,830.79.

Awarding agency 080 as the NASA side

USAspending labels awarding agency 080 as National Aeronautics and Space Administration. That code produced $9,355,403,830.79 when crossed with Virginia place of performance. The agency-wide 080 hub does not require VA geography. The Virginia hub does not require NASA. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 2,654 awards.

This page reports NASA awarding activity that USAspending coded to Virginia. Correlation is not causation: Virginia did not “cause” $9,355,403,830.79 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 080 × VA only. Space, aeronautics, and related instruments can all sit under awarding agency 080. The packet does not name centers, launch sites, or contractors.

Virginia as place of performance (VA)

Virginia on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to Virginia residents. Awards can list VA while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, or the District of Columbia belong on those ties even when a Mid-Atlantic or Chesapeake story is the same. Northern Virginia, Richmond, Hampton Roads, and the rest of the counties share one VA stamp. Place of performance is VA, not a county map.

Virginia federal spending shows how agency 080 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same geography. $9,355,403,830.79 is one column in that table, not the table. This packet does not split Virginia by county, metro, or congressional district. Awards that carry a different awarding-agency code stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to NASA.

Obligations, not outlays

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $9,355,403,830.79 is that kind of sum for National Aeronautics and Space Administration inside Virginia coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them.

Virginia’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 2,654-row NASA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $9,355,403,830.79 as given. Treat 2,654 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished.

How to cite NASA in Virginia

Cite USAspending.gov: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (agency 080) obligated $9,355,403,830.79 on 2,654 awards coded to Virginia. Name National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Virginia together. Keep the obligation word. If National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Virginia has refreshed, quote the overlay over this snapshot. The pair is not a launch calendar, not a center payroll, and not a contractor roster.

Keep National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Virginia, $9,355,403,830.79, and 2,654 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the 080 parent without a Virginia filter. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a state with NASA does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending join.

Reading a thin NASA file in Virginia

2,654 is a relatively thin action file: fewer rows against $9,355,403,830.79. A small row count makes the implied mean (about $3.53 million) sensitive to one large restatement. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 2,654 as 2,654 unique projects, facilities, or contractors. One award can dominate the average; the packet has no median and no top-award list.

Thin is not empty. $9,355,403,830.79 is still the obligation sum for agency 080 inside Virginia coding. Do not fill the gap with named sites the facts do not carry. Prefer National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Virginia if the live table moved.

Questions

How much NASA spending is coded to Virginia?

USAspending.gov lists $9,355,403,830.79 in National Aeronautics and Space Administration obligations across 2,654 Virginia-coded awards. Agency 080 × VA is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Virginia’s complete federal ledger. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Virginia is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $3.53 million, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does this total include every NASA program in Virginia?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. Space, aeronautics, and related instruments can all sit under awarding agency 080. The packet does not name centers, launch sites, or contractors. $9,355,403,830.79 is the combined obligation sum for agency 080 inside Virginia coding. This page will not invent a program pie. Open National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Virginia to inspect award lines. 2,654 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $9,355,403,830.79 cash already paid in Virginia?

No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $9,355,403,830.79 as checks already cleared in Virginia confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 2,654 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live NASA–Virginia table?

National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Virginia is the overlay. Virginia federal spending and National Aeronautics and Space Administration are the parents. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Those hubs are not addends. Keep both sides of the join when citing $9,355,403,830.79. Place of performance is VA, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.