Wired Telecommunications Carriers federal obligations in Virginia

Wired telecom and Virginia as a pair

Wired Telecommunications Carriers as the NAICS industry, Virginia as place of performance: 5,335 records summing to $608,663,414.60. An award in this industry coded outside VA is out. An award in Virginia from a different NAICS is out even if the work sounds related. Virginia (VA) excludes Maryland, North Carolina, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in Virginia. Virginia place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Norfolk, Arlington, Richmond, or a Pentagon-adjacent ZIP.

5,335 awards is a high-count industry cell. Volume can rise on task orders and modifications without each row being a new facility. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 5,335 as 5,335 unique establishments. The overlay path for this pair is the ties page for wired telecommunications carriers in Virginia. Virginia federal spending is the all-industry state hub. NAICS 517110 is the industry book without a VA filter. Virginia industries lists other NAICS cells inside the state. All spending ties lists other joins.

The implied mean is about $114,089 per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical project. Dollars and row counts tell different stories on the same join. Correlation is not causation: Virginia did not “cause” $608,663,414.60 by existing as a large or small place, and NAICS 517110 did not “cause” the geography tag. Population, employment, and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 517110 × VA only.

Carrier services, not a line census

$608,663,414.60 does not measure subscriber lines, fiber miles, or phone numbers in service. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. NAICS 517110 covers wired telecommunications carriers: wired telecom services as coded on the award. It is not a subscriber-line census and not a miles-of-fiber series. The cell sums award obligations with NAICS 517110 and a VA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 5,335 awards as a census of lines in service. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Virginia federal spending or the national NAICS 517110 table matched $608,663,414.60 and 5,335, the join would be pointless. Use the ties page when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state cells for the same NAICS are other pairs, not addends.

Virginia statewide, not a local map

Place of performance VA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Virginia (VA) excludes Maryland, North Carolina, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in Virginia. Recipient headquarters can sit in another state while the place-of-performance tag remains VA. Contractor address is not this filter.

Virginia place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Norfolk, Arlington, Richmond, or a Pentagon-adjacent ZIP. This packet does not split $608,663,414.60 by city, county, installation, or named facility. 5,335 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Do not infer a regional ranking from a single state×industry cell.

Obligations still are not outlays

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $608,663,414.60 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Virginia confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Virginia’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 5,335-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 $608,663,414.60. Campaign-finance filings are a different dataset; this page does not treat donations as funding these awards.

Citing Wired telecom in Virginia

Cite USAspending.gov: Wired Telecommunications Carriers (NAICS 517110) obligated $608,663,414.60 on 5,335 awards coded to Virginia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as subscriber lines, fiber miles, or phone numbers in service.

Prefer the ties page for wired telecommunications carriers in Virginia if a live overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Virginia federal spending still includes every other NAICS tagged to VA. NAICS 517110 is the industry parent without the VA filter. Virginia industries is the state’s industry index. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $608,663,414.60.

A usable footnote names Wired Telecommunications Carriers, Virginia, NAICS 517110, $608,663,414.60, and 5,335. The compact headline $609M is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $114,089 is $608,663,414.60 divided by 5,335. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated for wired telecommunications carriers in Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $608,663,414.60 across 5,335 awards with NAICS 517110 and a Virginia place-of-performance tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of lines in service. Keep both keys when quoting $608,663,414.60.

Does this total count telecom subscribers or lines?

No. The packet publishes $608,663,414.60 and 5,335 awards for NAICS 517110 inside VA coding. Subscriber lines, fiber miles, or phone numbers in service are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this Virginia file have 5,335 awards?

That is the award-record count for 517110 × VA. Combined with $608,663,414.60, the average is about $114,089. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 5,335 is not unique lines in service. Later ingests can revise the count.

Where is the live table?

Virginia federal spending and NAICS 517110 are the parents, not addends. Virginia industries lists other NAICS cells in the state. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $608,663,414.60. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.