National Archives and Records Administration federal obligations

$860.9 million on 894 NARA awards

The precise total is $860,857,433.60. Divided by 894 awards, the implied mean is about $963,000 per award. Facilities, digitization, security, and administrative contracts can occupy those rows; this packet does not split the 894 count by presidential library or regional archives, so those shares are not stated here.

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year. Multi-year facility vehicles can remain open, so $860,857,433.60 is not a single fiscal year’s NARA appropriation. USAspending.gov is the source.

That mix is the research takeaway from the two packet facts together. 894 awards at a mean near $963,000 blend facilities, digitization, security, and operations across archives and libraries. A later extract can change both the dollar total and the award count as multi-year facility vehicles remain open inside FY 2026.

CGAC 088 as the awarding-agency identifier

SpendingVault keys NARA to /agencies/088/. CGAC 088 is the USAspending awarding-agency code. The $860,857,433.60 total and 894 award count roll up rows carrying that identifier. The award count is not a count of record groups, researcher visits, or FOIA cases.

Award files versus archival statistics

Holdings, accessions, and researcher-visit series are published in NARA performance reports. This hub cites $860,857,433.60 in USAspending obligations through FY 2026 on 894 awards. Those archival statistics are not in the packet. Outlays are omitted.

Researchers sometimes treat an agency obligation total as cash already paid. For National Archives and Records Administration, that reading is wrong. Cubic feet of holdings, researcher visits, FOIA caseloads, or presidential-library splits belong in other publications. The USAspending figure on this hub remains an obligation sum through FY 2026. Multi-year facility vehicles remain open inside FY 2026.

State geography for NARA awards

Place-of-performance often follows the National Archives at College Park, Washington, presidential libraries, and federal records centers, plus contractors. A construction or HVAC vehicle coded to one state can dominate that cell of $860,857,433.60. The geography view is a coding table for the 894 awards through FY 2026, not a ranking of historical collections.

Place-of-performance is a coding field, not a complete economic-impact model. On this agency, College Park, Washington, presidential libraries, records centers, and contractors can dominate cells. Read the state table after the agency hub, not instead of it. Read CGAC 088 as an awarding-agency rollup, not a holdings census.

NARA on the all-agencies list

Compare $860,857,433.60 and 894 awards only with other obligation totals from this extract. The hub does not sell reproductions and does not advise FOIA requesters.

The all-agencies list is useful only inside this extract’s obligation definition and FY 2026 cap. 894 awards at a mean near $963,000 blend facilities, digitization, security, and operations across archives and libraries. Ranking on dollars alone hides that mix. Read CGAC 088 as an awarding-agency rollup, not a holdings census.

NARA’s award file versus archival statistics

Holdings and researcher-visit series live in NARA performance reports. This hub cites $860,857,433.60 on 894 awards tagged 088 through FY 2026. Those archival statistics are not packet facts. A later USAspending extract can revise both the dollar total and the 894 count as new actions and modifications post against CGAC 088. Until that refresh, the documented book is 860857433.6 in obligations. That figure is not a performance score, not an enacted one-year appropriation, and not a recommendation to apply for funds. It is the award-file rollup this packet carries through FY 2026.

Library-level splits are omitted. The 894 count is not a record-group census. Rank NARA only against other obligation totals from this extract. The state table is award coding, not a ranking of collections. CGAC 088 is the awarding-agency identifier on every row in this rollup, and the overlay path stays /agencies/088/. The award population is 894 records. Those rows still sum to the same obligation total through fiscal year 2026. Readers who need place-of-performance should open the state table from that hub; readers who need peer context should open the all-agencies list. Neither view converts obligations into outlays. CGAC 088 is the awarding-agency identifier on every row in this rollup, and the overlay path stays /agencies/088/. The award population is 894 records. Those rows still sum to the same obligation total through fiscal year 2026. Readers who need place-of-performance should open the state table from that hub; readers who need peer context should open the all-agencies list. Neither view converts obligations into outlays.

Questions

How much has NARA obligated on USAspending through FY 2026?

National Archives and Records Administration records (CGAC 088) sum to $860,857,433.60 across 894 awards in this extract. That figure is an obligation total from USAspending.gov through fiscal year 2026, not a holdings census and not a researcher-visit count.

What is CGAC 088?

CGAC 088 is the USAspending awarding-agency code for the National Archives and Records Administration. SpendingVault’s NARA hub uses that code. The $860,857,433.60 obligation total and 894 award count roll up rows carrying 088 through FY 2026.

Does the award count include every presidential library’s contracts?

Only if those actions appear as USAspending rows tagged to awarding-agency 088 in this extract. The published totals are $860,857,433.60 and 894 awards through FY 2026. Library-level splits are not in this packet.

Where can I see NARA spending by state?

The state table from the CGAC 088 agency page uses place-of-performance fields on the same obligation extract. Geography rows still sit under $860,857,433.60 and 894 awards through FY 2026.