Federal obligations in explosives manufacturing (NAICS 325920)

A chemical plant code, not ammunition NAICS 332992

NAICS 325920 covers establishments that manufacture explosives. Military and civil explosive products can land here when the award is tagged 325920. Small-arms ammunition manufacturing (332992) and ammunition except small arms (332993) are fabricated-metal codes, not this chemical class. The $3,912,664,088.83 total is the explosives-manufacturing tag, not “all munitions.”

A blasting contractor tagged as construction or mining support will not raise this plant row. An explosives maker tagged 325920 will. SpendingVault reports the USAspending award tag, not an ATF license roster and not an FEC employer string such as “defense.”

1,097 awards on a $3.91 billion obligation stock

One thousand ninety-seven awards produced $3,912,664,088.83 in obligations. That is a thinner action count than catalog medical-supply codes. Large chemical vehicles can dominate; the packet does not name them. The table shows tagged dollars and the 1,097-award count, not a pounds-produced figure.

Obligations move with new awards, options, and modifications, including deobligations. Outlays are payments for delivered product and are not this $3,912,664,088.83 rollup. A multi-year explosives vehicle can show a large commitment while invoices follow lots. The industry page does not convert obligations into a production calendar.

How USAspending attaches this NAICS

USAspending.gov stores NAICS on contract actions. Demining grants, surplus-destruction assistance, and many state blasting-safety awards often have no NAICS field. Those dollars will not add to the 1,097 awards. Open program pages for grant-funded explosives work.

The label is a Census chemical-manufacturing classification. It is not a DOT placard census and not campaign-finance text. Cite USAspending.gov via SpendingVault for $3,912,664,088.83 and the 1,097-award count.

What the 325920 table is and is not

The hub lists recipients and awards that share this NAICS tag. A large obligation is a disclosed commitment. It is not a finding that a lot failed, that a magazine was unsafe, or that a small business was excluded. SpendingVault does not score safety from the dollar total.

Use award IDs, not the $3,912,664,088.83 headline, to separate two manufacturers. Loaders tagged as ammunition manufacturing may be missing from this chemical row. UEI and name changes are ordinary in the file.

Neighboring munitions and chemical codes

Small-arms ammunition (332992) and other chemical manufacturing lines are separate pages. Adding them to $3,912,664,088.83 would mix metal ammunition plants with explosives chemistry. That recode is not this page.

Assistance without NAICS remains outside the 1,097-award count. For a plant that also holds grants, open the recipient record. This guide stays on contract NAICS 325920 from USAspending.gov. Keep obligations distinct from outlays.

Explosives chemistry versus ammunition metalwork

An ammunition contract tagged 332992 will not raise the 1,097-award count. An explosives-manufacturing vehicle tagged 325920 sits in $3,912,664,088.83 even if the same prime also loads cartridges under another NAICS. SpendingVault does not merge those rows.

Searchers who want “all federal explosives” must add ammunition codes, blasting-services construction tags, and assistance, and will still miss in-house arsenal production that never hits this contract NAICS. This page does not perform that recode. Cite contract NAICS 325920 only. Do not treat the row as an FEC occupation called chemist. The $3,912,664,088.83 figure remains an obligation stock on USAspending.gov. Modifications that cut a lot will lower the running total without publishing a blast-yield statistic on this hub. Open award rows for product-class descriptions. Neighboring 33299 ammunition lines stay on their own pages unless those awards were tagged 325920.

A chemical lot tagged 325920 still sits in $3,912,664,088.83; a cartridge plant tagged 332992 does not. The 1,097 awards remain an action count, not an ATF license census. Keep 332993 ammunition-except-small-arms on its own page. Cite USAspending.gov contract NAICS 325920 only. The headline is still obligations, not outlays. Field blasting tagged as construction or mining support stays outside this chemical-manufacturing rollup unless the award itself carries 325920. Open award rows for product-class lists this hub does not publish. Do not read $3,912,664,088.83 as a pounds-produced figure or as an FEC defense-contractor string. In-house arsenal production that never receives a contract NAICS also stays outside the 1,097-award count. Do not add 332992 or 332993 into $3,912,664,088.83 without documenting a recode. The 1,097 awards stay an action file, not a magazine inventory. Open award rows for CLIN-level descriptions the NAICS hub does not publish. Neighboring codes stay on their own SpendingVault industry pages unless those awards were tagged 325920. Keep obligations distinct from outlays on this rollup. Assistance awards without NAICS remain outside the contract tag. The packet reports only this NAICS tag from USAspending.gov contract actions, not outlays and not assistance without a NAICS field. Do not treat this industry total as an FEC employer string or as a cash-outlay extract from Treasury.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated under NAICS 325920?

USAspending.gov contract aggregates on SpendingVault show $3,912,664,088.83 in obligations across 1,097 awards tagged explosives manufacturing. The number is obligations, not outlays. Assistance awards without NAICS are omitted. It is not an FEC employer string and not a combined total of neighboring NAICS codes.

Does this include small-arms ammunition manufacturing?

Small-arms ammunition is NAICS 332992, a fabricated-metal class. Those awards will not add to the $3,912,664,088.83 total unless tagged 325920. The 1,097 awards are the explosives-manufacturing contract tag from USAspending.gov via SpendingVault. Adding 332992 is a recode you must document.

Does this include blasting contractors?

Construction or mining blasting services use other NAICS lines. Those awards will not add to the $3,912,664,088.83 total unless tagged 325920. The 1,097 awards are the manufacturing contract tag. Open construction-industry pages for field blasting, not this chemical-plant rollup from USAspending.gov.

Are these figures outlays or obligations?

They are obligations: legally binding commitments on contract actions. Outlays are payments and are not this $3,912,664,088.83 rollup. Modifications can change obligations without a same-day payment. SpendingVault cites USAspending.gov contract NAICS for the 1,097 awards, not a Treasury cash extract.