Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing

How 334511 and 2026 share one award-file cell

NAICS 334511 and fiscal year 2026 share one yearlyTrend cell. $1,392,058,595.34 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on the row that carries both tags. It is not Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, And Nautical System And Instrument Manufacturing's nationwide all-year total of $121,166,651,507.81, not every federal dollar coded to FY2026, and not an outlay register. The packet does not split search from navigation from aeronautical or nautical lines. 22,688 is an industry-extract action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows across years. Unique recipients are unpublished. This cell is not a serial list, a named-plant census, or a platform-by-platform inventory.

Read /industries/334511/ (NAICS 334511) for the industry table without this FY2026 filter, /fiscal-years/2026/ (FY2026 federal spending) for the year table without this NAICS filter, /industries/ (All industries) for every industry, and /ties/ (All spending ties) for the rest of the join list. Those hubs are parents, not addends to $1,392,058,595.34. Do not annualize this incomplete FY2026 row into a full-year forecast. The packet has no forecast. Search, detection, navigation, and related instrument lines stay inside one NAICS.

Keeping 334511 apart from nearby NAICS codes

USAspending labels NAICS 334511 as Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, And Nautical System And Instrument Manufacturing. That code produced $1,392,058,595.34 when crossed with fiscal year 2026. The industry-wide 334511 hub does not require a FY2026 filter. The year hub does not require Nav & Guidance Instruments. Only this tie applies both filters. The packet does not split search from navigation from aeronautical or nautical lines. The source note warns that current-year FY totals can still grow or be restated. Treat this 334511 × FY2026 cell as a snapshot.

Correlation is not causation: FY2026 did not produce $1,392,058,595.34 merely by existing as a large or small budget year. The join is 334511 × FY2026 only. This cell is not a serial list, a named-plant census, or a platform-by-platform inventory. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate. Twenty-two thousand six hundred eighty-eight industry-extract awards describe 334511 across years, not a FY2026 serial-number census.

Questions

How much Nav & Guidance Instruments spending is obligated in FY2026?

USAspending.gov lists $1,392,058,595.34 in Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, And Nautical System And Instrument Manufacturing (NAICS 334511) obligations for FY2026. That yearlyTrend amount is 1.1% of the industry's $121,166,651,507.81 extract-wide total. It is an obligation join, not an outlay and not every federal dollar in FY2026. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Is $1,392,058,595.34 the entire Nav & Guidance Instruments USAspending total?

No. NAICS 334511's extract-wide total is $121,166,651,507.81. FY2026 is 1.1% of that book. Other fiscal-year rows for the same industry are separate cells. Do not add /industries/334511/ into this join. 22,688 award records stay on the industry extract, not on this yearlyTrend row.

Is $1,392,058,595.34 cash already paid in FY2026?

No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet's headline. Treating $1,392,058,595.34 as checks already cleared in FY2026 confuses those terms. Prefer the live industry and year hubs if the tables moved.

Does 22,688 awards mean 22,688 unique companies in FY2026?

No. 22,688 is the industry-extract award-record count for Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, And Nautical System And Instrument Manufacturing, not unique vendors and not a FY2026 headcount. Modifications add rows. This packet names no contractors. Keep the extract count off the yearlyTrend clock.