Federal obligations in ammunition (except small arms) manufacturing (NAICS 332993)

What “except small arms” means on the award

NAICS 332993 covers establishments that manufacture ammunition other than small-arms cartridges. On USAspending.gov the code tags contract awards classified that way: artillery, bombs as classified under this ammunition line, and similar production. It is not a round count, and it is not every munition in a stockpile. Small-arms ammunition manufacturing is a separate NAICS code and is not this table.

Complete guided missiles are 336414. Armored vehicles are 336992. A ground-combat program can buy the vehicle, the ammunition, and the missile on three different industry pages. The $42.3 billion figure is only awards tagged 332993.

Concentrated obligations on 1,764 awards

Few award records and $42,309,362,085.24 in obligations is a production-plant pattern: large lots, government-owned contractor-operated work that is still a contract award, and modifications that add to the same vehicles. USAspending records those commitments as obligations. This packet has no fiscal-year split and no outlay total.

Outlays follow deliveries. Quote $42.3 billion as USAspending contract obligations coded to ammunition (except small arms) manufacturing. Do not describe it as a munitions stockpile value or as cash already spent.

1,764 awards, not 1,764 rounds

The 1,764 award records are contracting actions, not ammunition items. One plant contract can cover years of production. Compared with pharmaceutical or parts codes that generate tens of thousands of orders, this ammunition line is concentrated. Open the industry page for the award list.

Ammunition plants and complete-missile factories are different NAICS lines even when the public uses munitions as a single word. NAICS 332993 is ammunition except small arms, $42,309,362,085.24 in USAspending obligations on 1,764 awards. Small-arms cartridges are outside the title. Guided missiles are 336414. Tanks are 336992. A unit set that needs all three will not appear as one industry total. The 1,764 records are plant-scale lots and modifications, not rounds. This page will not invent a stockpile size or a classified location. Quote USAspending.gov, quote obligations, quote except small arms. Outlays follow deliveries and are not in the packet. The industry page lists the unclassified award rows.

What 332993 excludes

Assistance awards often lack NAICS and are outside this total. Small-arms ammunition, if tagged to its own code, sits elsewhere. Missile manufacturing (336414) is complete vehicles, not this ammunition line. This page restates a public contract rollup; it does not describe classified inventories.

SpendingVault aggregates USAspending.gov contract data. The $42,309,362,085.24 total and the 1,764 award count can change after corrections. The live industry page is the table of record.

Using the ammunition industry page

Open the AMMUNITION (EXCEPT SMALL ARMS) MANUFACTURING industry page for the award list under the headline. Compare 332993 with 336992 and 336414 on All industries. Cite obligations, not outlays, and keep the 1,764 award count with the dollar figure.

Citing large-caliber production without a stockpile

Cite $42,309,362,085.24 in USAspending obligations on 1,764 awards tagged NAICS 332993, ammunition except small arms manufacturing. Keep except small arms in the citation. Complete missiles are a different code. This page does not publish a round count.

The 1,764 award count is plant-scale contracting, not munitions items. Outlays follow deliveries and are not in the packet. Assistance is generally excluded. Do not treat the $42.3 billion figure as an inventory valuation. The industry page lists the unclassified award records behind the rollup.

Large-caliber and other non-small-arms ammunition manufacturing is a factory code with few award rows. The $42,309,362,085.24 total on 1,764 awards is plant-scale contracting, including government-owned contractor-operated work that is still a USAspending contract award when tagged 332993. Modifications that add lots will raise dollars without adding a new plant.

Small-arms cartridges are outside the title. Complete missiles are outside the title. This page will not publish a round count or a classified inventory. Cite USAspending obligations, 1,764 awards, and ammunition except small arms. Keep stockpile valuation out; that field is not here. Keep outlays out. The industry page lists the unclassified records.

Questions

How much is obligated on NAICS 332993 ammunition except small arms?

USAspending.gov contract awards coded NAICS 332993 show $42,309,362,085.24 in obligations across 1,764 awards. That total is obligations, not outlays, for ammunition (except small arms) manufacturing. USAspending.gov records the amount as contract obligations, not outlays, on awards tagged NAICS 332993.

Does this include small-arms cartridges?

No. The NAICS title excepts small arms. This table’s $42,309,362,085.24 is awards tagged 332993 only. Small-arms ammunition uses a different NAICS code. The packet total is $42,309,362,085.24 across 1,764 awards; assistance awards often have no NAICS and stay outside the industry rollup.

Are missiles included in 332993?

Complete guided missile and space vehicle manufacturing is NAICS 336414. 332993 is ammunition except small arms. Missile dollars tagged 336414 are not inside this total. Treat the 1,764 figure as an award-record count, including orders and modifications, not as a physical inventory of products or sites.

Do 1,764 awards mean 1,764 munitions?

No. The 1,764 figure counts contract award records, including production lots and modifications. It is not a round count. This guide does not add a fiscal-year split. Quote the live industry page if you need the current award list under AMMUNITION (EXCEPT SMALL ARMS) MANUFACTURING.