Federal obligations in computer training (NAICS 611420)

Computer-training services at $831.5 million

Federal agencies buy instructor-led and related computer training from vendors classified in 611420. Tagged obligations sum to $831,525,218.46. That is not a seat count and not a certification-pass rate. Student volumes are not in the packet facts.

Training is an educational-services NAICS. Systems-design contractors, software publishers, and computer-equipment manufacturers use other codes even when their awards include some instruction. The $831,525,218.46 is the 611420 training tag on 1,291 actions.

1,291 awards and a services-vehicle average

One thousand two hundred ninety-one awards against $831,525,218.46 averages about $644,000 per action. That fits multi-course training vehicles and agency-wide instruction contracts better than $4,000 catalog orders. Task orders add count. The industry hub shows whether a few large training IDIQs dominate the $831,525,218.46.

This guide does not name curricula, vendors, or agencies. Packet facts are the dollar total and the 1,291 count. Neutral tone: tagged training obligations, not an endorsement of any course.

Training versus equipment versus IT consulting

Computer terminal and other computer peripheral equipment manufacturing (334118) is a hardware code in this slice. Computer training is instruction. A bundled “hardware plus training” award may be tagged to the prime’s primary industry. The $831,525,218.46 follows the 611420 tag as recorded, not a forensic unbundling of every syllabus hour.

Assistance awards may not carry NAICS. Pell-style or workforce grants that fund computer courses at schools will usually miss this contract rollup. Program pages cover those streams.

A complete citation of this industry is $831,525,218.46 in USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 611420, computer training, on 1,291 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 $831,525,218.46 and 1,291.

Obligations on training periods

Training contracts often obligate a period or a seat bank and invoice as classes run. The $831,525,218.46 is committed value on 1,291 tagged actions, not cash already paid for every student-day. Unused seats can be de-obligated. Outlay fields track payments.

Classification errors are expected at the margin. Vendors that straddle computer peripheral manufacturing, systems-design consulting, and education grants may land in 611420 on some actions and in a neighbor on others. Computer peripheral manufacturing (334118) is hardware; 611420 is instruction. The public-record stance is to keep $831,525,218.46 attached to 611420 as tagged, then read the 1,291 rows as instruction vehicles, not as a skills-outcome dashboard. Re-tagging the extract by hand is out of scope for this overlay.

Hub navigation

Open the computer training industry page for the 1,291 awards behind $831,525,218.46. Use the all-industries directory for computer-peripheral manufacturing without merging hardware dollars into this training total. Source: USAspending.gov contract awards.

Training NAICS codes are not hardware manufacturing

Award count interprets the buying pattern. 1,291 actions producing $831,525,218.46 is training vehicles of professional-services size, with about $644,000 per action as the simple average. That average hides mix: modifications, options, and delivery orders all increment count. 1,291 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 $831,525,218.46 across 1,291 tagged computer training 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 computer training 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 $831,525,218.46, 1,291, the obligation unit, and the boundary around computer peripheral manufacturing, systems-design consulting, and education grants.

Questions

How much federal contract spending is coded to computer training?

NAICS 611420 shows $831,525,218.46 in obligations on 1,291 USAspending contract awards. That is computer-training establishments as tagged, not IT consulting as a whole and not computer hardware. The unit is obligations, not outlays or seats. Quote it as USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 611420, not as cash outlays. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so grants remain outside the 1,291-award extract behind $831,525,218.46.

Does this include computer peripheral manufacturing?

No. Peripheral equipment manufacturing is NAICS 334118. This page’s $831,525,218.46 is computer training on 1,291 tagged awards. Open the hardware code separately. Computer peripheral manufacturing (334118) is hardware; 611420 is instruction. Keep $831,525,218.46 attached to 611420 as tagged on 1,291 actions; do not merge neighbor codes into the same unlabeled cell.

Are workforce-education grants included?

Usually not. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so they fall outside this contract extract. Use program pages for grants and the industry page for tagged 611420 contracts totaling $831,525,218.46. That pattern is training vehicles of professional-services size, with about $644,000 per action as the simple average of $831,525,218.46 over 1,291 awards. Read the 1,291 rows as instruction vehicles, not as a skills-outcome dashboard.

Does $831.5 million measure how many people were trained?

No. It is obligated contract value tagged to computer training, not a student census. Seat counts are not in the packet facts. This industry guide covers tagged contracts only: $831,525,218.46 obligated on 1,291 computer training awards in USAspending. Outlays are a different field; assistance without NAICS is a different award type.