Federal obligations in industrial process instrument manufacturing (NAICS 334513)

A long NAICS title and a $1.25 billion contract rollup

NAICS 334513 is one of the longer industry names in the federal procurement tables. The substance is narrower than the title: manufacturing of instruments that measure, display, or control industrial process variables such as temperature, pressure, flow, and level. Federal plants, shipyards, energy sites, and laboratories buy that class of hardware. USAspending tags the vendor’s industry on the award; rolling those tags yields $1,253,272,856.91 obligated on this code.

Six thousand fifty-seven awards is a high count for a billion-dollar manufacturing industry. The implied average is about $207,000 per action. That pattern fits catalogs of instruments, spare sensors, and delivery orders rather than a handful of turnkey factory contracts. The average is only the ratio of the two packet facts. Individual rows on the industry hub can be much larger or much smaller.

6,057 awards: parts-and-instruments buying, not three mega-deals

When award count climbs into the thousands while dollars stay near $1,253,272,856.91, the industry is functioning as a supply code. Agencies place many discrete orders against schedules and IDIQs. Each order can still be a contract action in USAspending. Readers who expect “one factory, one award” will misread 6,057 rows. The count is a feature of how instruments are bought, not evidence of 6,057 unique factories.

This guide does not list the top agencies or manufacturers because those breakdowns are not in the packet facts. The overlay target—the industry page—holds the award tables. Use it to see concentration. The two numbers that this file is allowed to cite remain $1,253,272,856.91 and 6,057.

What 334513 is not

It is not navigational instruments, not medical diagnostic equipment, and not generic computer peripheral manufacturing, each of which has its own NAICS. A pressure transmitter for a boiler belongs here; a GPS unit or a hospital analyzer generally does not. Mixed “instrumentation and control” construction contracts may be coded to construction or engineering instead of 334513. The $1,253,272,856.91 is the manufacturing-coded slice as tagged.

Assistance awards may omit NAICS. A university grant that buys process sensors through a grant account will usually miss this rollup. If the question is all federal instrument spending regardless of award type, this page is incomplete by design. If the question is contract obligations coded 334513, the pair is $1,253,272,856.91 on 6,057 awards.

A complete citation of this industry is $1,253,272,856.91 in USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 334513, industrial process instrument manufacturing, on 6,057 awards. Anything less—dropping the NAICS, dropping the word obligations, or dropping the contract-only universe—overstates what the extract contains. The packet facts do not include a fiscal year, so this guide does not invent one. Live tables on the industry hub can move when USAspending posts modifications; the harvested pair remains $1,253,272,856.91 and 6,057.

Obligations versus outlays on instrument contracts

Instrument orders often ship and invoice on a different calendar than the obligation. The $1,253,272,856.91 figure answers “how much was committed on tagged contracts,” not “how much cash has gone out.” De-obligations after cancelled line items will change the live table. Keep the two USAspending concepts separate in any export.

Classification errors are expected at the margin. Vendors that straddle medical analyzers, navigation gear, and computer peripherals may land in 334513 on some actions and in a neighbor on others. Computer peripheral manufacturing (334118) is office and terminal hardware, not process-variable gauges. The public-record stance is to keep $1,253,272,856.91 attached to 334513 as tagged, then filter the 6,057 actions for large controller buys versus sensor restocks. Re-tagging the extract by hand is out of scope for this overlay.

How to continue from this guide

Open the industry page for NAICS 334513 to inspect the 6,057 actions behind the $1,253,272,856.91. The all-industries directory links neighboring manufacturing codes. Source note, copied from the packet: NAICS from USAspending contract awards; assistance awards may not carry NAICS.

Process instruments are not a generic electronics bucket

Award count interprets the buying pattern. 6,057 actions producing $1,253,272,856.91 is thousands of catalog and delivery orders for factory-floor instruments, with about $207,000 per action as the simple average. That average hides mix: modifications, options, and delivery orders all increment count. 6,057 is not a count of unique companies and not a count of physical units. Use the hub amount sort to see whether a few large rows plus a long tail make up most of the tagged total.

Outlays remain a separate USAspending concept. An agency can obligate $1,253,272,856.91 across 6,057 tagged industrial process instrument manufacturing actions and pay on a different calendar. De-obligations after cancellations reduce the obligation ledger; they do not rewrite the fact that this NAICS has been a large tagged category in the harvest. Assistance without NAICS still sits outside even when the real-world activity looks similar. Program pages answer the grant question; this page answers the tagged-contract question.

Internal links on this file point only to the industrial process instrument manufacturing industry page and the all-industries directory. Those are the packet hrefs. Neighboring industry codes mentioned in prose are classification context only. Source note, copied from the packet: NAICS from USAspending contract awards. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS. The overlay’s job is to state $1,253,272,856.91, 6,057, the obligation unit, and the boundary around medical analyzers, navigation gear, and computer peripherals.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated on NAICS 334513 process instruments?

USAspending contract awards coded to 334513 total $1,253,272,856.91 in obligations on 6,057 awards. The industry is manufacturing of instruments for measuring, displaying, and controlling industrial process variables. The figure is not an outlay total. Quote it as USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 334513, not as cash outlays. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so grants remain outside the 6,057-award extract behind $1,253,272,856.91.

Why are there more than 6,000 awards in this instruments code?

Process instruments are often bought as many catalog and delivery orders. 6,057 actions against $1,253,272,856.91 averages about $207,000. That is a supply-code pattern, not 6,057 separate national programs. The industry hub shows the size mix. Computer peripheral manufacturing (334118) is office and terminal hardware, not process-variable gauges. Keep $1,253,272,856.91 attached to 334513 as tagged on 6,057 actions; do not merge neighbor codes into the same unlabeled cell.

Does 334513 include medical or navigation instruments?

Those are other NAICS categories. This page’s $1,253,272,856.91 follows the 334513 tag for industrial process-variable instruments. Award descriptions on the industry page are the check for any single action that looks out of place. That pattern is thousands of catalog and delivery orders for factory-floor instruments, with about $207,000 per action as the simple average of $1,253,272,856.91 over 6,057 awards. Filter the 6,057 actions for large controller buys versus sensor restocks.

Are grants for laboratory instruments in this $1.25 billion?

Usually not. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so they are outside the 6,057-award contract extract. This rollup is USAspending contract obligations tagged 334513 only. This industry guide covers tagged contracts only: $1,253,272,856.91 obligated on 6,057 industrial process instrument manufacturing awards in USAspending. Outlays are a different field; assistance without NAICS is a different award type.