Federal obligations in ship building and repairing (NAICS 336611)

What ship building and repairing includes

NAICS 336611 classifies establishments that build or repair ships, including conversion and overhaul work that returns a vessel to service. On USAspending.gov the code tags contract awards whose industry classification is ship building and repairing. It is not a fleet inventory, and it is not a count of keels laid. A nuclear-powered combatant and a yard-period repair on an auxiliary can share the same six-digit code if that is how the award was classified.

Boat building, ship parts manufactured under other codes, and port operations sit elsewhere. Aircraft, armored vehicles, and missiles are different manufacturing NAICS lines even when the same agencies buy them. The $279.2 billion total is the shipyard-coded contract slice, not a Department of the Navy budget.

Large dollars on relatively few awards

The combination of $279,197,773,165.84 and 14,648 awards is the signature of a heavy-manufacturing code: each hull or availability can carry a very large obligation. USAspending records those commitments when agencies award or modify contracts. Multi-year shipbuilding accounts, options, and engineering change orders all feed the same industry sum. This packet does not break the total by fiscal year or by new-construction versus repair.

Outlays on a ship can lag obligations by years. Progress payments move cash while the obligation was recorded up front or in increments. Citing $279.2 billion as money already paid is wrong. Citing 14,648 as the number of ships in the fleet is also wrong. The first is a contract-obligation rollup; the second is an award-record count.

How USAspending classifies the work

NAICS on these records comes from the contract award, not from a Census survey of shipyards. If a repair availability is coded 336611, it rolls into this table even if much of the work is services-like. If a combat-system upgrade is coded to electronics manufacturing or engineering services, those dollars leave this industry even when they are installed on a ship. The classification choice belongs to the award file that USAspending.gov publishes.

What the shipbuilding table leaves out

Assistance awards generally lack NAICS and are outside $279,197,773,165.84. Fuel, crew, and many spare parts use other codes. Facilities support at a naval station is a services NAICS, not ship building. Grants to maritime academies, if they appear as assistance, would not land here.

SpendingVault aggregates USAspending.gov contract awards. Corrections can move both dollars and the 14,648 award count. Use the live industry page as the table of record.

Using the ship building industry page

Open the SHIP BUILDING AND REPAIRING industry page to see the awards under the $279.2 billion headline. Compare 336611 with other manufacturing codes on All industries. When you quote the figure, name USAspending, say obligations rather than outlays, and keep the 14,648 award count so readers see how concentrated the records are.

Citing shipyard obligations without a fleet inventory

Cite $279,197,773,165.84 in USAspending contract obligations on 14,648 awards tagged NAICS 336611, and say the code includes building and repairing. Do not convert the award count into hulls, and do not convert the dollars into a Navy budget year. This packet has no agency split and no fiscal-year split.

Repair availabilities and new-construction lots can share the code. If you need that split, the industry page award list is the next step; this guide cannot invent it. Keep assistance awards out of the sentence. Grants to maritime schools, if they exist as assistance, generally have no NAICS and are outside the $279.2 billion total.

Shipyard work blurs construction and manufacturing in ordinary speech. NAICS 336611 is manufacturing of ships and the repair that returns a vessel to service, as classified on the award. A dry-dock availability that looks like a construction project still rolls into $279,197,773,165.84 if the award carries this code. Conversely, a pier built under a heavy-civil code will not. The 14,648 award records are the tagged contracting footprint, including change orders that are common on hull work.

Nuclear and conventional work can share the six-digit code. This packet does not split them, and this guide will not guess. Combatants and auxiliaries can share it too. The safe public-record sentence remains: USAspending.gov contract awards coded 336611 show $279.2 billion in obligations across 14,648 awards. For program names, go to the industry page.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated on ship building and repairing?

USAspending.gov contract awards coded NAICS 336611 show $279,197,773,165.84 in obligations across 14,648 awards. That total is obligations, not outlays, and covers only awards tagged ship building and repairing. USAspending.gov records the amount as contract obligations, not outlays, on awards tagged NAICS 336611.

Does 14,648 awards mean 14,648 ships?

No. The 14,648 figure counts contract award records, including modifications and repair availabilities coded to 336611. It is not a hull count. One ship can generate many awards over its life. The packet total is $279,197,773,165.84 across 14,648 awards; assistance awards often have no NAICS and stay outside the industry rollup.

Is the $279.2 billion the Navy shipbuilding budget?

No. The $279,197,773,165.84 figure is a USAspending contract-obligation rollup for NAICS 336611 across the awards in this dataset. It is not an appropriation, not a single-year budget, and not limited by this packet to one agency.

Are ship repair dollars included with new construction?

Yes, if the award is coded NAICS 336611. The code covers building and repairing. This packet does not split the $279,197,773,165.84 total between new hulls and repair. The industry page lists the underlying awards. This guide does not add a fiscal-year split. Quote the live industry page if you need the current award list under SHIP BUILDING AND REPAIRING.