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Aircraft Manufacturing federal obligations in Massachusetts (NAICS 336411)

Place-of-performance Massachusetts plus NAICS 336411 (Aircraft Manufacturing) produces $243,950,273.93 in recorded obligations on USAspending.gov. 1,666 awards sit in that cell. The pair is a table join, not a finding that Massachusetts caused the industry's national mix.

Key figures

  • Aircraft Manufacturing in Massachusetts: $243,950,273.93 obligated across 1,666 actions.
  • NAICS 336411 is the industry key.
  • Massachusetts federal spending and NAICS 336411 are different, larger filters.
  • No contractor names in this packet.
  • Outlays and fiscal-year splits are unpublished here.

One cell: aircraft manufacturing and Massachusetts

NAICS 336411 and place-of-performance state MA meet here. $243,950,273.93 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not nationwide Aircraft Manufacturing, not Massachusetts's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Massachusetts 336411 is airframe manufacturing, not 336413 parts and not a Hanscom delivery calendar. 336411 is Aircraft Manufacturing, not aircraft parts (336413) or engines (336412). Airframe-assembly and delivery-lot folklore and Boston campus and defense-corridor folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not extra packet dollars and not a census of aircraft or plants.

1,666 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — a very long award list beside a large obligation total. A long row list can mix small support payments with larger instruments. The join does not rank Massachusetts against other states and does not name airframe manufacturers inside the extract. Unique vendors are unpublished.

Open Massachusetts federal spending for the statewide rollup, NAICS 336411 for the industry hub, Massachusetts industries for other NAICS in the same geography, and All spending ties for other pairs. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $243,950,273.93.

Instruments behind 1,666 rows

Dividing $243,950,273.93 by 1,666 yields about $146,428.74 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical airframe or production-lot award. A second aircraft manufacturing join in another state uses the same NAICS and a different dollar total. Do not treat Massachusetts's 336411 figure as a synonym for every Aircraft Manufacturing award in the catalog.

Airframe-assembly and delivery-lot folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Industry titles on NAICS 336411 are the place to see what a given line bought. Boston campus and defense-corridor folklore may explain a search path. It does not add dollars or airframe manufacturers.

Neighbor-state airframe work is excluded

The industry hub for NAICS 336411 aggregates Aircraft Manufacturing without requiring MA geography. Massachusetts federal spending aggregates all industries with Massachusetts place of performance. Massachusetts industries lists other NAICS in Massachusetts. Only this tie applies both the 336411 filter and the Massachusetts geography tag, which is why it cites 1,666 awards and $243,950,273.93.

Place of performance in Massachusetts is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list MA while later airframe work occurs in New Hampshire or Connecticut. aircraft manufacturing awards coded to those places do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in Boston. This packet does not split Boston from Worcester or Springfield. Boston, Worcester, and Springfield are reader landmarks, not packet subtotals.

Legal commitment, not cash paid

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $243,950,273.93 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in Massachusetts over-reads the field. USAspending.gov NAICS aggregates by place of performance state are the source.

Award count 1,666 is a record count, not a payment count and not a unique-contractor census. Catalog lines, delivery orders, and modifications can each mint a row. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use Massachusetts industries and NAICS 336411. Keep the obligation word on $243,950,273.93.

No contractor roster in this packet

A large aircraft manufacturing total in Massachusetts does not mean the industry caused Massachusetts's fiscal mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between Boston campus and defense-corridor folklore and 336411 awards is expected; it is not a finding about waste or plant quality. No performance metric is in the packet. Massachusetts 336411 is airframe manufacturing, not 336413 parts and not a Hanscom delivery calendar.

Keep $243,950,273.93 labeled as NAICS 336411 obligations with Massachusetts place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. Do not claim that donations paid for $243,950,273.93 in Massachusetts. No contractor or award-recipient names are in the packet, and none are invented.

Where NAICS 336411 sits among other ties

A clean footnote names NAICS 336411 (Aircraft Manufacturing), Massachusetts place of performance, $243,950,273.93 in obligations, and 1,666 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $243,950,273.93 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $146,428.74 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical airframe or production-lot award.

Massachusetts federal spending, NAICS 336411, Massachusetts industries, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $243,950,273.93 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Boston-versus-Worcester folklore is not a metro split in this packet. Airframe manufacturers names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

What is the aircraft manufacturing obligation total for Massachusetts?
USAspending.gov records $243,950,273.93 in obligations for NAICS 336411 (Aircraft Manufacturing) with Massachusetts place of performance, covering 1,666 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not nationwide Aircraft Manufacturing. NAICS 336411 is the industry key on the join.
Is $146,428.74 a typical airframe or production-lot award in Massachusetts?
The extract lists 1,666 award actions totaling $243,950,273.93. Average obligation per award is about $146,428.74, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical airframe or production-lot award. Unique airframe manufacturers are not published here.
Does the Massachusetts figure split Boston from Worcester or Springfield?
No. $243,950,273.93 and 1,666 awards are statewide Massachusetts place of performance. This packet does not split Boston from Worcester or Springfield. Awards coded to New Hampshire or Connecticut are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Boston.
Which page filters Aircraft Manufacturing to Massachusetts?
Massachusetts federal spending is the state rollup. NAICS 336411 is the industry hub without a state filter. Massachusetts industries lists other NAICS in Massachusetts. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

USAspending.gov NAICS industry aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.