Air Traffic Control federal obligations in FY2024
USAspending.gov records $2,264,343,836.66 in Air Traffic Control (NAICS 488111) obligations for fiscal year 2024. About eighty-eight percent of this ATC extract sits on FY2024. Seventy-seven industry-extract awards against a two-and-a-half-billion-dollar book is a thin, concentrated parent file, not a tower roster. That pair is Air Traffic Control (NAICS 488111) and federal fiscal year 2024 — not every federal dollar in FY2024, not Air Traffic Control's $2,562,178,818.05 extract-wide book, and not cash already paid. The cell is 88.4% of this industry's published obligation total. 77 is the industry-extract award-record count, not a FY2024-only instrument tally. USAspending.gov is the source. Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- Air Traffic Control in FY2024: $2,264,343,836.66 in USAspending obligations (NAICS 488111).
- That cell is 88.4% of the industry's $2,562,178,818.05 extract-wide total.
- 77 is the industry-extract award-record count, not a FY2024 census.
- NAICS 488111 × FY2024 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote NAICS 488111 and FY2024 federal spending if live tables moved.
Air Traffic Control dollars tagged to FY2024
NAICS 488111 and fiscal year 2024 meet here. $2,264,343,836.66 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on the yearlyTrend row that carries both tags. It is not Air Traffic Control's nationwide all-year total of $2,562,178,818.05, not every federal dollar coded to FY2024, and not an outlay register. The packet does not split towers from TRACONs from related ATC lines. 77 is an industry-extract action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows across years. Unique recipients are unpublished. This cell is not a tower census, a named-facility roster, or a controller headcount.
Open /industries/488111/ (NAICS 488111) for the industry table without this FY2024 filter, /fiscal-years/2024/ (FY2024 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. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $2,264,343,836.66. Air traffic control is a services code, not chartered passenger air (481211). Keep 488111 on FY2024.
This page reports air traffic control activity USAspending tagged to FY2024. The headline $2,264,343,836.66 sits beside an industry-wide obligation total of $2,562,178,818.05; the 88.4% share is arithmetic on those two packet facts, not a ranking of fiscal years as winners or losers. Obligations are not outlays. A thin parent file makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities.
What Air Traffic Control contributes to this pair
USAspending labels NAICS 488111 as Air Traffic Control. That code produced $2,264,343,836.66 when crossed with fiscal year 2024. The industry-wide 488111 hub does not require a FY2024 filter. The year hub does not require Air Traffic Control. Only this tie applies both filters. The packet does not split towers from TRACONs from related ATC lines. Tower-versus-TRACON splits are unpublished. This page will not invent a facility list or a controller headcount.
Correlation is not causation: FY2024 did not cause $2,264,343,836.66 by existing as a large or small budget year. The join is 488111 × FY2024 only. This cell is not a tower census, a named-facility roster, or a controller headcount. 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. Seventy-seven industry-extract award records are not seventy-seven FY2024 towers and not seventy-seven unique operators.
Action counts stay on the industry extract
77 is the Air Traffic Control award-record count published with the industry extract, not a count of FY2024 instruments. Dividing $2,264,343,836.66 by 77 would mix a one-year dollar total with a multi-year row count, so this page does not publish that ratio as a typical invoice. Unique recipients are unpublished. Modifications and multi-year vehicles can add lines without adding vendors. Seventy-seven industry-extract award records are not seventy-seven FY2024 towers and not seventy-seven unique operators. Later USAspending ingests can still restate FY2024 obligations without changing the join keys.
Why this is not an outlay register
USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $2,264,343,836.66 is that kind of sum for Air Traffic Control in FY2024. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same NAICS rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $2,264,343,836.66 as given.
Treat 77 as award records on the industry extract, not unique vendors and not a FY2024 headcount. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. FEC contribution tables do not fund these awards. A thin parent file makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities.
Live tables versus this snapshot
Cite USAspending.gov: Air Traffic Control (NAICS 488111) obligated $2,264,343,836.66 in FY2024. Name Air Traffic Control and FY2024 together. Keep the obligation word. If NAICS 488111 or FY2024 federal spending has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a tower census, a named-facility roster, or a controller headcount. 88.4% of $2,562,178,818.05 is the industry share on this packet, not a budget score. All industries lists other industries; All spending ties indexes other pairs.
Keep Air Traffic Control, FY2024, $2,264,343,836.66, and the 77-record industry extract together without mixing clocks. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a year with Air Traffic Control does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending yearlyTrend join. Air traffic control is a services code, not chartered passenger air (481211). Keep 488111 on FY2024.
Using 88.4% without overclaiming
Seventy-seven industry-extract award records are not seventy-seven FY2024 towers and not seventy-seven unique operators. Air traffic control is a services code, not chartered passenger air (481211). Keep 488111 on FY2024. A reader who quotes 77 as unique companies in FY2024 has left the packet. A reader who treats 88.4% as a hardship or success ranking has added a score the table does not carry. Prefer NAICS 488111 and FY2024 federal spending if the live tables moved. A thin parent file makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities.
This snapshot holds $2,264,343,836.66 on the yearlyTrend row and 77 on the industry extract. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation. A reader who only quotes $2,264,343,836.66 without FY2024 and NAICS 488111 has dropped a join side.
Questions
- How much Air Traffic Control spending is obligated in FY2024?
- USAspending.gov lists $2,264,343,836.66 in Air Traffic Control (NAICS 488111) obligations for FY2024. That yearlyTrend amount is 88.4% of the industry's $2,562,178,818.05 extract-wide total. It is an obligation join, not an outlay and not every federal dollar in FY2024. Unique recipients are unpublished.
- Is $2,264,343,836.66 the entire Air Traffic Control USAspending total?
- No. NAICS 488111's extract-wide total is $2,562,178,818.05. FY2024 is 88.4% of that book. Other fiscal-year rows for the same industry are separate cells. Do not add NAICS 488111 into this join. 77 award records stay on the industry extract, not on this yearlyTrend row.
- Is $2,264,343,836.66 cash already paid in FY2024?
- 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 $2,264,343,836.66 as checks already cleared in FY2024 confuses those terms. Prefer the live industry and year hubs if the tables moved.
- What share of NAICS 488111 is FY2024?
- NAICS 488111 in FY2024 accounts for 88.4% of $2,562,178,818.05 in industry-wide obligations on this packet. That share is $2,264,343,836.66 ÷ $2,562,178,818.05. It is not a ranking of fiscal years and not an outlay share. Other years occupy the remaining industry total on other ties.
USAspending.gov NAICS yearlyTrend by fiscal year. Obligations are not outlays. FY figures can be incomplete for the current year.