NAICS 332994 small arms and ordnance manufacturing obligations

High-volume manufacturing of arms and accessories

Forty-two thousand five hundred seventy-two awards against $7,254,091,902.34 produces a mean of about $170,396. That volume pattern fits many parts and accessories actions alongside larger production lots. Guided missile propulsion (336415) is a different manufacturing code with fewer awards and a higher mean in this extract. The two pages are not interchangeable.

The Census title groups small arms with ordnance and ordnance accessories. Contracting officers pick 332994 when that manufacturing is the principal purpose. Ammunition, artillery, or other weapons NAICS codes, when used, live on other hubs and are not inside this $7.3 billion.

Public tables can show dollars and NAICS while shortening descriptions. A thin description next to a 332994 award is a source-field limit, not a missing row in the total.

Defense-related manufacturing NAICS codes split small arms and accessories from missile propulsion and from aircraft. Small arms, ordnance, and ordnance accessories manufacturing (332994) is the 42,572-award tag at $7,254,091,902.34, about $170,396 per award. Guided missile propulsion (336415) is a different manufacturing class with its own hub. Different classes, different books, different pages.

Production commitments versus deliveries paid

Manufacturing lots often obligate at award and pay on inspection. Spare-accessories orders can close faster. This packet does not split those types. The $7.3 billion is the obligation sum, not a warehouse inventory already paid for.

The 42,572-award count is not a weapon count. Delivery orders and modifications sit inside the tally as USAspending grouped them. Dividing dollars by awards is not a unit price.

Related defense manufacturing codes

Missile and space-vehicle propulsion manufacturing is NAICS 336415. Aircraft manufacturing is a different 336 class. Those hubs are not subsets of $7,254,091,902.34. Adding them would mix small-arms tags with aerospace tags the source keeps apart.

Foreign military financing and other assistance that moves weapons as grants often lack NAICS and do not enter this industry total.

Foreign military financing and other assistance that moves weapons as grants often lack NAICS and do not enter this $7.3 billion. This hub is tagged manufacturing contracts, not an export ledger and not an inventory of weapons issued.

How to use the 332994 hub

Lead with volume: 42,572 awards, $7.3 billion, about $170,396 mean. Rank the code on the all-industries index among manufacturing NAICS. Open the small arms, ordnance, and ordnance accessories manufacturing industry page for award rows.

Do not infer inventories or operational stocks from the title. The aggregate measures tagged contract obligations.

Classification limits

Accessories, spare parts, and complete small arms can share 332994. Work the officer tagged to a broader weapons code will not appear here. SpendingVault does not recode those choices.

Extract updates will move $7,254,091,902.34 and 42,572 with the source.

How to read a high-volume arms-manufacturing table

Forty-two thousand awards at a mid-six-figure mean looks like many parts and accessories actions plus larger lots. The packet still has no unit count, so $170,396 is not a rifle price. Open the small arms, ordnance, and ordnance accessories manufacturing industry page for descriptions — which may be short on some rows while dollars still count.

Rank 332994 among manufacturing codes by dollars and by award count. Cite USAspending.gov. Assistance without NAICS is excluded. Obligations remain distinct from outlays on open production lots. SpendingVault does not recode accessories into a different weapons NAICS.

Small-arms and accessories manufacturing at $7,254,091,902.34 on 42,572 awards is a high-volume goods tag. The mean of about $170,396 is not a unit price. Missile-propulsion manufacturing is a different aerospace class.

Assistance that moves weapons as grants often lacks NAICS and stays outside this $7.3 billion. Open the small arms, ordnance, and ordnance accessories manufacturing industry page for descriptions, which may be short on some rows while dollars still count. Cite USAspending.gov. Obligations remain distinct from outlays on open production lots.

Forty-two thousand five hundred seventy-two awards at $7,254,091,902.34 describe a thick accessories-and-small-arms manufacturing book. Missile propulsion is a different manufacturing class. Grant-funded transfers that lack NAICS never enter the $7.3 billion. Short descriptions can still sit inside the obligation total. Open the industry page. Cite USAspending.gov. Do not convert $170,396 into a unit price.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 332994?

Small arms, ordnance, and ordnance accessories manufacturing contracts in USAspending show $7,254,091,902.34 in obligations across 42,572 awards. That is a manufacturing tag, not a count of weapons issued. The figure is obligations, not outlays. Assistance without NAICS is excluded. Open the industry page for award rows behind $7,254,091,902.34 and the count of 42,572.

What is the average 332994 award?

Dividing $7,254,091,902.34 by 42,572 awards yields about $170,396. High award volume pulls the mean below many capital-aerospace NAICS codes. The average is not a unit price. The packet does not publish a median or a quantity field. Inspect award-level amounts rather than treating $170,396 as a unit price; the packet has no quantity field.

Does this include missile propulsion manufacturing?

No. Guided missile and space vehicle propulsion unit manufacturing is NAICS 336415, a separate hub. This $7.3 billion is the small arms, ordnance, and accessories tag. Use each manufacturing industry page for its tagged total. Use the 336415 hub for propulsion manufacturing and this hub for the small-arms and accessories tag.

Why might award descriptions be short?

USAspending sometimes publishes dollars and NAICS while withholding or shortening descriptions. Those tagged actions still sit in the $7,254,091,902.34. A short description is a source-field limit, not evidence the award was omitted from the industry total. Those tagged actions still sit in the $7.3 billion; a short description is a source-field limit, not an omitted award.