NAICS 334515 electrical measuring and testing instrument manufacturing obligations

Electrical test gear, not a lab-instrument catchall

NAICS 334515 is instrument manufacturing for measuring and testing electricity and electrical signals. Contracting officers assign it when the principal product is electrical meters, oscilloscopes, signal analyzers, and related test instruments as the Census class groups them. This $1,408,277,764.14 is that manufacturing tag. It is not a count of calibration stickers, not a metrology-lab headcount, and not NAICS 334516 analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing.

Five thousand six hundred eighty-eight awards produced a mean of about $248,000. Federal electrical-test buys mix catalog instruments, automated test equipment, and spare modules, which sits between a handheld meter and a rack-scale ATE system. The packet does not count channels, bandwidth, or units calibrated.

Other measuring and controlling device manufacturing is a residual instrument class. A pressure or temperature instrument tagged there does not sit in $1.4 billion under 334515.

Awards versus instruments delivered

The 5,688-award count is an award-identifier count, not a unit count of meters. USAspending may still group multiple delivery orders into awards. Dividing $1,408,277,764.14 by 5,688 awards is a mean obligation per award, not a price per oscilloscope.

Instrument contracts often obligate estimated quantities and pay as gear ships. Unused options leave obligated balances unpaid. Treating $1.4 billion as instruments already on the bench would overstate cash.

What this total excludes

Assistance that funds university labs often lacks NAICS and does not enter $1,408,277,764.14. In-house government calibration shops are not 334515 contracts. Semiconductor device manufacturing (334413) is a device class, not this test-instrument class.

Repair of electronic and precision equipment is an 811 services class. Mixed buy-and-maintain vehicles follow the principal NAICS the officer selected. Handheld meters and rack-scale automated test equipment can share 334515 when that is the principal product. The $1,408,277,764.14 total does not split bandwidth or channels across the 5,688 awards.

How to use the 334515 hub

Read $1.4 billion and 5,688 awards as the electrical measuring-and-testing instrument tag, then open the instrument manufacturing for measuring and testing electricity and electrical signals industry page for award-level fields. Rank 334 instrument codes on the all-industries index without converting this electrical-test class into analytical-lab or residual measuring-device totals.

This guide does not add calibration-interval tables because they are not in the facts object. A pressure or temperature instrument tagged to residual measuring-device manufacturing is not this electrical-signal book. Quote obligations, not calibration stickers, and keep analytical-lab instruments out because 334516 is a different class.

Classification limits

Electrical test instruments are not analytical laboratory instruments and not residual measuring devices. SpendingVault reports the tagged 334515 sum.

Extract updates will move $1,408,277,764.14 and 5,688 with USAspending.

Bench instruments versus analytical-lab gear

Five thousand six hundred eighty-eight awards at $1,408,277,764.14 produce a mean of about $248,000. Electrical measuring and testing instruments — meters, oscilloscopes, signal analyzers — are a 334515 product class. Analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing (334516) is a different 334 class. Residual other measuring and controlling devices are another class. A chromatography system tagged 334516 is not this $1.4 billion. The mean is not an oscilloscope list price.

Assistance that funds university labs often omits NAICS and stays outside $1,408,277,764.14. In-house calibration shops are not 334515 contracts. Semiconductor device manufacturing (334413) is a device class, not test-instrument manufacturing. Repair tagged to 811 follows a services class. Open the instrument manufacturing for measuring and testing electricity and electrical signals industry page for award-level fields. Rank 334 instrument codes on the all-industries index. Cite USAspending.gov. Unused options mean obligated instrument dollars can exceed gear already on the bench. A searcher asking how much the federal government spent on test instruments should still separate electrical-signal gear from analytical laboratory instruments. The $1,408,277,764.14 figure answers the NAICS 334515 question only. The 5,688-award count answers how many award identifiers carried that tag, not how many meters sat on benches. Open the instrument manufacturing for measuring and testing electricity and electrical signals industry page, then compare other 334 instrument codes on the all-industries index. Keep the language to obligations recorded in USAspending.gov, and do not convert the mean of about $248,000 into an oscilloscope price.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 334515?

Instrument manufacturing for measuring and testing electricity and electrical signals contracts in USAspending show $1,408,277,764.14 in obligations across 5,688 awards. That is an electrical-test-instrument tag, not analytical laboratory instruments. The figure is obligations, not outlays. Assistance without a NAICS code is excluded from this industry extract.

What is the average electrical-test-instrument award?

Dividing $1,408,277,764.14 by 5,688 awards yields about $248,000. That mean mixes handheld meters and larger automated test equipment in this extract. It is not a price per oscilloscope and not a channel count. The packet does not publish a median or a unit count.

Does this include analytical laboratory instruments?

Only contract actions tagged 334515. Analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing is a separate 334 class. Mixed electrical-and-chemical instrument buys follow the principal code the officer selected. This $1.4 billion is the electrical-test tag. Use each industry hub for its own Census class on SpendingVault.

Are these dollars already paid to instrument makers?

No. USAspending reports obligations on this hub, not outlays. Open delivery orders and unused options can leave balances unliquidated after the award posts. The 5,688-award count is not a proof of instruments received. Cite USAspending.gov for the tagged extract on SpendingVault.