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California 48th District

CA-48 · Place of performance

Total Obligations

$18.27B

Total Awards

4K

Known Recipients

25

Last Updated

Jun 5, 2026

$1,697,258,383.55 in USAspending.gov obligations pairs NAICS 334511 (Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, And Nautical System And Instrument Manufacturing) with California 48th District (CA-48) across 9 awards. The join is NAICS 334511 crossed with a CA-48 location field, not California's entire instrument book and not a named-plant inventory. The dollars are commitments, not Treasury outlays. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one.

Key figures

  • Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, And Nautical System And Instrument Manufacturing (NAICS 334511) × CA-48: $1,697,258,383.55 across 9 awards.
  • About 14.1% of the CA-48 district parent $12,020,382,570.10 by arithmetic.
  • 9 awards are a row count, not a sensor or plant census.
  • Obligations are not outlays; no fiscal year is in the packet.
  • FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell; source is USAspending.gov.

NAICS 334511 × CA-48 is a sensor-instrument join, not a serial roster

This page is a join: Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, And Nautical System And Instrument Manufacturing (NAICS 334511) as the industry key, and California 48th District (CA-48) as congressional district place of performance. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations to $1,697,258,383.55 on 9 awards. The join is NAICS 334511 crossed with a CA-48 location field, not California's entire instrument book and not a named-plant inventory. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which district received more, and not a claim that 9 awards equal 9 sensors or 9 unique primes.

The IN-03 and NH-02 334511 joins sit outside this total unless they also carry NAICS 334511 and CA-48. Mixing those books into $1,697,258,383.55 would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and local avionics employment is not causation. Sensor serial numbers and plant headcounts are not in the packet. Place of performance as CA-48 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $1,697,258,383.55 in a district treasury. Huntington Beach-versus-Costa Mesa folklore is not a geography split in this packet.

9 awards behind $1.70 billion

Mean obligation is about $188,584,264.84 if $1,697,258,383.55 were divided evenly across 9 lines. That ratio is not a published unit cost and not a typical instrument invoice. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of sensors, plants, or unique vendors. Nine awards against a $1.70 billion cell is a very concentrated instrument file: few rows, large implied mean.

Guidance-system vehicles can post as a handful of high-dollar rows. This page will not invent contractor or recipient names. Open California 48th District for the stored district table. Do not convert 9 into a map of California 48th District instrument plants. The $1,697,258,383.55 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on the overlay rather than inferring a sensor census.

Full analysis: Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, And Nautical System And Instrument Manufacturing in California 48th District (CA-48) →

Questions

How much nav/guidance instrument manufacturing is obligated in California 48th District?
USAspending.gov shows $1,697,258,383.55 in Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, And Nautical System And Instrument Manufacturing (NAICS 334511) obligations with California 48th District (CA-48) as place of performance, across 9 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district's full $12,020,382,570.10 parent. Other NAICS codes sit outside this join unless they also carry 334511.
Do 9 awards mean 9 instrument plants in CA-48?
No. Award count is a row count of NAICS 334511 actions tagged to CA-48. It is not a plant or vendor census. Unique recipients are unpublished. Mean obligation of about $188,584,264.84 is a quotient of $1,697,258,383.55 and 9, not a unit cost.
Does the CA-48 334511 cell include Indiana or New Hampshire dollars?
No. IN-03 and NH-02 are other 334511 joins. $1,697,258,383.55 is about 14.1% of the California 48th District parent $12,020,382,570.10 by arithmetic. Cite USAspending.gov as the source. Obligations remain commitments, not Treasury outlays.
Is the CA-48 nav/guidance total already paid as outlays?
Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $1,697,258,383.55 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault's extract. Progress payments and remaining balances are not published here. Cite USAspending.gov as the source.

USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to NAICS industry. Obligations are not outlays.

District ties

All data ties →

Yearly Spending Trend

Top 50 Awards in California 48th District

Largest individual obligations performed in CA-48.

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Top 50 Awards in California 48th District
AwardRecipientAwarding AgencyProgramPlaceFYObligation
CONT_AWD_W58RGZ19C0027_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
2019 THROUGH 2023 GRAY EAGLE PERFORMANCE BASED LOGISTICS
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Army
—POWAY, CA-482024$1,896,157,069
CONT_AWD_W58RGZ17C0018_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
DEOBLIGATION OF FY25 CANCELING FUNDS
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Defense Contract Management Agency
—POWAY, CA-482025$936,878,897
CONT_AWD_FA857724C0001_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
CY24-25 MQ-9 (REAPER) SUPPORT AND SERVICES.
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482024$646,404,052
CONT_AWD_W58RGZ24C0031_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
2024 THROUGH 2028 GRAY EAGLE PERFORMANCE BASED LOGISTICS
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Army
—POWAY, CA-482024$620,955,908
CONT_AWD_FA857722C0001_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
CY22 MQ-9 (REAPER) SUPPORT AND SERVICES.
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482024$584,786,924
CONT_AWD_FA868923C2018_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
MQ-9B FMS TAIWAN PRODUCTION
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482024$465,669,577
CONT_AWD_W58RGZ19C0022_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
PRODUCTION READINESS TEST ASSETS (PRTA)
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Army
—POWAY, CA-482024$397,979,427
CONT_AWD_W58RGZ24C0021_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
PRODUCTION READINESS TEST ASSETS (PRTA)
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Army
—POWAY, CA-482024$367,444,098
CONT_AWD_FA852818C0001_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
CONTRACTOR LOGISTICS SUPPORT AND SERVICES FOR MQ-1 PREDATOR AND MQ-9 REAPER
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Defense Contract Management Agency
—POWAY, CA-482024$349,705,012
CONT_AWD_FA852819C0001_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
CONTRACTOR LOGISTICS SUPPORT AND SERVICES (CLS) FOR MQ-9 REAPER
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482024$337,112,210
CONT_AWD_W58RGZ11C0099_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
CHANGE OF MOD AUTHORITY
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Army
—POWAY, CA-482025$325,711,659
CONT_AWD_FA862019F2384_9700_FA862015G4040_9700
MQ-9 REAPER FY19 AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Defense Contract Management Agency
—POWAY, CA-482024$313,172,422
CONT_AWD_FA862019C2003_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
MQ-9 REAPER FMS UK
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482024$312,772,687
CONT_AWD_FA868921F2408_9700_FA868920D2020_9700
MQ-9 REAPER FY21 BILATERAL AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482024$310,406,704
CONT_AWD_FA862018C2009_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
MQ-9B FMS UK PROTECTOR
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482024$303,566,795
CONT_AWD_FA857720C0001_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
MQ-9 REAPER CLS SUPPORT.
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Defense Contract Management Agency
—POWAY, CA-482024$286,500,285
CONT_AWD_70B02C22C00000016_7014_-NONE-_-NONE-
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE SERVICE
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
—POWAY, CA-482024$281,629,679
CONT_AWD_FA857721C0001_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
CLS REAPER SUPPORT AND SERVICES
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Defense Contract Management Agency
—POWAY, CA-482024$277,668,910
CONT_AWD_70B02C18C00000040_7014_-NONE-_-NONE-
UAS OPERATIONAL AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
—POWAY, CA-482024$272,580,355
CONT_AWD_W58RGZ19C0030_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
PM UAS - EUAS WARRIOR ALPHA, BLOCK 0 - FUNDS DE-OBLIGATION.
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Army
—POWAY, CA-482025$257,045,573
CONT_AWD_FA862019F2374_9700_FA862015G4040_9700
MQ-9 REAPER, BLOCK 5 FY18 PRODUCTION
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Defense Contract Management Agency
—POWAY, CA-482024$232,146,190
CONT_AWD_FA868922C2017_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
FMS FRANCE MQ-9 CONTRACTOR LOGISTICS SUPPORT
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482024$227,937,953
CONT_AWD_FA868920C2013_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
MQ-9B FMS BELGIUM SKYGUARDIAN
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482024$227,194,875
CONT_AWD_HSBP1013C00006_7014_-NONE-_-NONE-
UAS OPERATION & MAINTENANCE
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
—POWAY, CA-482024$212,596,551
CONT_AWD_FA868920F2405_9700_FA868920D2020_9700
MQ-9 REAPER FISCAL YEAR 20 UNILATERAL AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482024$202,886,969
CONT_AWD_W58RGZ17C0035_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
PM UAS - WARRIOR ALPHA, BLOCK 0. DE-OBLIGATE CANCELLING FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF A DECREASE OF -$3,387,488.00.
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Army
—POWAY, CA-482025$195,103,402
CONT_AWD_FA857726FB002_9700_FA857726DB001_9700
CONTRACTOR LOGISTICS SUPPORT AND SERVICES MQ-9 REAPER
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482026$160,432,176
CONT_AWD_N0001918C1063_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
GROUP 5 UAS ISR SERVICES
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Defense Contract Management Agency
—POWAY, CA-482024$148,491,919
CONT_AWD_GSQ0016AJ0021_4732_GS00Q09BGD0048_4735
FUNDING & ADMIN CHANGES
SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Virginia
General Services Administration
Federal Acquisition Service
—POWAY, CA-482025$145,556,783
CONT_AWD_FA868922F2400_9700_FA868920D2020_9700
MQ-9 REAPER UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS, FY22 PRODUCTION MQ-9
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482024$136,901,093
CONT_AWD_0017_9700_FA862015G4040_9700
MQ-9 REAPER UK CONTRACTOR LOGISTICS SUPPORT FMS
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482025$132,583,652
CONT_AWD_W58RGZ22C0014_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
PRODUCTION OF THE MQ-1C GRAY EAGLE EXTENDED RANGE AIRCRAFT.
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Army
—POWAY, CA-482024$130,478,200
CONT_AWD_N0001924F5559_9700_N0001922G0006_9700
UPDATING SHIP TO ADDRESS FOR CLINS 0004 AND 0005
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Navy
—POWAY, CA-482024$128,784,133
CONT_AWD_FA868922C2014_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
MQ-9 FMS NETHERLANDS CONTRACTOR LOGISTICS SUPPORT FOLLOW ON UCA DEFINITIZATION
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482024$126,640,846
CONT_AWD_FA868923F2650_9700_FA868920D2020_9700
MQ-9 REAPER OPEN MISSION SYSTEM (OMS) STELLAR RELAY (SR) AND LINK-16 RETROFIT
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482024$120,755,215
CONT_AWD_W58RGZ21F0186_9700_W58RGZ18D0138_9700
GRAY EAGLE TECHNICAL SERVICES (GETS) FY19-23.
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Army
—POWAY, CA-482024$113,765,688
CONT_AWD_FA862019F2310_9700_FA862015G4040_9700
MQ-9 REAPER FMS NETHERLANDS BLOCK 5 AIR-VEHICLES
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482025$111,909,678
CONT_AWD_FA868925FB010_9700_FA868925DB001_9700
IRIS DELIVERY ORDER (DO) 1 FOR INDIA MQ-9B FMS
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482025$108,279,000
CONT_AWD_FA868924C2020_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
MQ-9 FMS NETHERLANDS, LOT 2 PRODUCTION
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482024$102,936,808
CONT_AWD_FA868925CB003_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
CANADA MQ-9B
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482025$101,397,513
CONT_AWD_W58RGZ23C0010_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
RE-ALIGNMENT OF FUNDS FROM CLIN 0203, 0204, AND 0205.
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Army
—POWAY, CA-482024$97,083,041
CONT_AWD_FA862020C2009_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
MQ-9 REAPER FMS FRANCE - CONTRACTOR LOGISTICS SERVICES
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482024$95,962,942
CONT_AWD_HR001123C0087_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
LONGSHOT
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
—POWAY, CA-482024$94,291,379
CONT_AWD_FA868923F2452_9700_FA868920D2020_9700
MQ-9 REAPER FMS NETHERLANDS - LOT 2 PRODUCTION
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482024$93,563,757
CONT_AWD_W911QX21C0001_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-
MODIFICATION TO CREATE NOT SEPARATELY PRICED (NSP) CONTRACT LINE ITEM NUMBER (CLIN) 0007 TO ADD CONTRACTOR ACQUIRED PROPERTY (CAP) FOR SMART SENSOR AUTONOMOUS INTELLIGENCE, SURVEI…
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Army
—POWAY, CA-482024$93,293,555
CONT_AWD_FA868921F2805_9700_FA868920D2020_9700
MQ-9 AGILE REAPER ENTERPRISE SOLUTION (ARES) IDIQ FRANCE HARDWARE AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482024$89,509,772
CONT_AWD_FA868922FB001_9700_FA862017D2000_9700
AWARD FOR LEAD OFF HITTER 5
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482024$87,210,645
CONT_AWD_FA868924F2451_9700_FA868920D2020_9700
MQ-9 REAPER JOING URGENT OPERATIONAL NEED PROLIFERATED LOW EARTH ORBIT PHASE II
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force
—POWAY, CA-482024$85,993,538
CONT_AWD_0026_9700_FA862015G4040_9700
MQ-9 REAPER FRANCE CONTRACTOR LOGISTICS SERVICES (CLS)
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Defense Contract Management Agency
—POWAY, CA-482024$82,812,989
CONT_AWD_N0001922F2395_9700_N0001922G0006_9700
UPDATING SECTION J
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
California
Department of Defense
Department of the Navy
—POWAY, CA-482024$82,692,913

Top 50 awards shown, ranked by obligated amount. Dates reflect performance period; last-modified dates match USAspending.gov. Complete listings include all transaction history going back to FY2024.