NAICS 541713 research and development in nanotechnology obligations

Nanotech R&D contracts, not a fab line

NAICS 541713 is research and development in nanotechnology. Contracting officers assign it when the principal purpose is R&D in nanotechnology as the Census class groups that work. This $1,318,843,185.11 is that professional-services tag. It is not a foundry-capacity census, not NAICS 334413 semiconductor and related device manufacturing, and not a count of journal papers.

Six hundred eighty awards produced a mean of about $1.9 million. Federal nanotech R&D vehicles can be multi-year research contracts, which pulls the mean above a small materials-characterization invoice. The packet does not count laboratories, patents, or nanoparticles produced.

Semiconductor device manufacturing is a 334 product class. A chip-production contract tagged 334413 does not sit in $1.3 billion under 541713. Those 680 awards are the nanotechnology R&D book as tagged, not a count of laboratories funded.

Few awards, research-scale means

The 680-award book is concentrated relative to high-count commodity codes. Dividing $1,318,843,185.11 by 680 awards is a mean obligation per award identifier, not a cost per experiment and not a grant size. Assistance awards that omit NAICS never enter this contract total.

R&D contracts often obligate estimated research effort and pay as milestones are accepted. Unused option years leave obligated balances unpaid. Treating $1.3 billion as research already completed would overstate cash.

What this total excludes

Assistance that funds university nanotech centers often lacks NAICS and does not enter $1,318,843,185.11. In-house government laboratories are not 541713 contracts. Other scientific R&D classes in the 5417 family are separate hubs when tagged that way.

Instrument manufacturing for measuring electricity (334515) is a product class. Mixed R&D-and-instrument buys follow the principal NAICS the officer selected. Materials characterization and multi-year nanotech research vehicles can share 541713 when that is the principal class. The $1,318,843,185.11 total does not count experiments across the 680 awards.

How to use the 541713 hub

Read $1.3 billion and 680 awards as the nanotechnology R&D tag, then open the research and development in nanotechnology industry page for award-level fields. Rank 541 professional-services codes on the all-industries index without converting this R&D class into semiconductor manufacturing or a patent inventory.

This guide does not add publication counts because they are not in the facts object. A 5417 R&D contract tagged to a different scientific field is not this nanotechnology book. Quote obligations, not patents, and keep semiconductor manufacturing on the 334413 hub where device production is tagged.

Classification limits

Nanotechnology R&D is not semiconductor device manufacturing and not in-house government lab payroll. SpendingVault reports the tagged 541713 sum.

Extract updates will move $1,318,843,185.11 and 680 with USAspending.

R&D milestones versus devices shipped

Six hundred eighty awards at $1,318,843,185.11 produce a mean of about $1.9 million. Nanotechnology R&D is a 541 professional-services class, not semiconductor device manufacturing (334413). A chip-production contract tagged 334413 is not this $1.3 billion. Assistance that funds university nanotech centers often omits NAICS and stays outside $1,318,843,185.11 even when the science overlaps. The mean is not a cost per experiment and not a grant size. The packet does not count patents, papers, or nanoparticles.

In-house government laboratories are not 541713 contracts. Other 5417 scientific R&D classes are separate hubs when tagged that way. Instrument manufacturing for measuring electricity (334515) is a product class. Open the research and development in nanotechnology industry page for award-level fields. Rank 541 professional-services codes on the all-industries index without converting this R&D class into a fab total. Cite USAspending.gov. Unused option years mean obligated research dollars can exceed milestones already accepted. Extract updates will move both the dollars and the 680-award count. A searcher asking how much the federal government spent on nanotechnology should still separate R&D services from semiconductor device manufacturing. The $1,318,843,185.11 figure answers the NAICS 541713 question only. The 680-award count answers how many award identifiers carried that tag, not how many papers were published. Open the research and development in nanotechnology industry page, then compare other 541 professional-services codes on the all-industries index. Keep the language to obligations recorded in USAspending.gov, and do not convert the mean of about $1.9 million into a cost per experiment.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 541713?

Research and development in nanotechnology contracts in USAspending show $1,318,843,185.11 in obligations across 680 awards. That is an R&D professional-services tag, not semiconductor manufacturing and not a patent count. The figure is obligations, not outlays. Assistance without a NAICS code is excluded from this extract.

What is the average nanotechnology R&D award?

Dividing $1,318,843,185.11 by 680 awards yields about $1.9 million. That mean often reflects multi-year research vehicles rather than a small characterization invoice. It is not a cost per experiment and not a grant size. The packet does not publish a median or a patent count.

Does this include semiconductor manufacturing?

Only contract actions tagged 541713. Semiconductor and related device manufacturing is NAICS 334413. Mixed R&D-and-production buys follow the principal code the officer selected. This $1.3 billion is the nanotech R&D tag. Use manufacturing hubs for device classes instead of this professional-services code.

Are these dollars already paid to researchers?

No. USAspending reports obligations on this hub, not outlays. Open option years and unused milestones can leave balances unliquidated after the award posts. The 680-award count is not a proof of research completed. Cite USAspending.gov for the tagged extract on SpendingVault.