Air Traffic Control federal obligations in FY2026

A yearlyTrend join: NAICS 488111 × FY2026

NAICS 488111 and fiscal year 2026 meet here. $259,060,930.74 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 FY2026, and not an outlay register. The packet does not split tower from en-route from approach control, or contract from assistance. 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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 controller headcount, or a named-facility roster.

This page reports air traffic control activity USAspending tagged to FY2026. The headline $259,060,930.74 sits beside an industry-wide obligation total of $2,562,178,818.05; the 10.1% share is arithmetic on those two packet facts, not a ranking of fiscal years as winners or losers. Obligations are not outlays. Do not invent facility names or a controller headcount. Recipients remain unpublished.

Air Traffic Control as an industry code, not as a named-vendor list

USAspending labels NAICS 488111 as Air Traffic Control. That code produced $259,060,930.74 when crossed with fiscal year 2026. The industry-wide 488111 hub does not require a FY2026 filter. The year hub does not require Air Traffic Control. Only this tie applies both filters. The packet does not split tower from en-route from approach control, or contract from assistance. A 10-percent year share is arithmetic on two packet totals. It is not a claim that air-traffic-control work happened only in FY2026 in the real economy.

Correlation is not causation: FY2026 did not cause $259,060,930.74 by existing as a large or small budget year. The join is 488111 × FY2026 only. This cell is not a tower census, a controller headcount, or a named-facility roster. 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 FY2026 towers and not seventy-seven unique operators.

Row count versus FY2026 dollar concentration

77 is the Air Traffic Control award-record count published with the industry extract, not a count of FY2026 instruments. Dividing $259,060,930.74 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 FY2026 towers and not seventy-seven unique operators. FY2026 figures can be incomplete for the current year, so even the dollar cell may still move.

A thin parent file makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A thin parent file makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. 10.1% of $2,562,178,818.05 is the year share on this packet, not a performance score.

Obligation math for this join

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $259,060,930.74 is that kind of sum for Air Traffic Control in FY2026. 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 $259,060,930.74 as given.

What a complete citation includes

Cite USAspending.gov: Air Traffic Control (NAICS 488111) obligated $259,060,930.74 in FY2026. Name Air Traffic Control and FY2026 together. Keep the obligation word. If /industries/488111/ or /fiscal-years/2026/ has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a tower census, a controller headcount, or a named-facility roster. 10.1% of $2,562,178,818.05 is the industry share on this packet, not a budget score. /industries/ lists other industries; /ties/ indexes other pairs.

No contractors, no FEC path, no mixed clocks

Seventy-seven industry-extract award records are not seventy-seven FY2026 towers and not seventy-seven unique operators. Air traffic control is not other air-transport support (488190). Keep 488111 on FY2026. A reader who quotes 77 as unique companies in FY2026 has left the packet. A reader who treats 10.1% as a hardship or success ranking has added a score the table does not carry. Prefer /industries/488111/ and /fiscal-years/2026/ if the live tables moved. Do not invent facility names or a controller headcount. Recipients remain unpublished.

This snapshot holds $259,060,930.74 on the yearlyTrend row and 77 on the industry extract. /ties/ is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation. A reader who only quotes $259,060,930.74 without FY2026 and NAICS 488111 has dropped a join side.

Questions

How much Air Traffic Control spending is obligated in FY2026?

USAspending.gov lists $259,060,930.74 in Air Traffic Control (NAICS 488111) obligations for FY2026. That yearlyTrend amount is 10.1% 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 FY2026. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Is $259,060,930.74 the entire Air Traffic Control USAspending total?

No. NAICS 488111's extract-wide total is $2,562,178,818.05. FY2026 is 10.1% of that book. Other fiscal-year rows for the same industry are separate cells. Do not add /industries/488111/ into this join. 77 award records stay on the industry extract, not on this yearlyTrend row.

Is $259,060,930.74 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 $259,060,930.74 as checks already cleared in FY2026 confuses those terms. Prefer the live industry and year hubs if the tables moved.

Is FY2026 ranked against other years here?

No. This page does not rank FY2026 as a winner or loser. $259,060,930.74 describes one yearlyTrend join. Other years have their own cells. Cite Air Traffic Control and FY2026 together without a league table. USAspending.gov remains the source for NAICS 488111 in FY2026.