Department of State (072) obligations in All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

State 072 × 541990 is a residual-services join, not a post census

Keep two filters in view. Awarding agency is Department of State, CGAC 072. Industry is NAICS 541990. The surviving file is $17,777,411,702.36 and 1,409 awards. The join is awarding-agency 072 crossed with residual NAICS 541990, not a diplomatic-post census and not State’s entire $165,614,781,383.14 book. The extract does not list post names, contractor names, or task-order titles. 1,409 awards are not equal 1,409 posts or 1,409 consulting firms.

Engineering (541330), computer systems design (541512), and other professional codes sit outside this total unless they also carry 541990. Mixing those dollars into $17,777,411,702.36 would invent a roll-up. Correlation with a published diplomatic-post count is not causation. Embassy-versus-consulate folklore is not a post split in this packet. Parent $165,614,781,383.14 still includes every other NAICS tagged to agency 072.

1,409 awards behind $17.8 billion

Implied mean is about $12.62 million per award. That mean is not a typical professional-services invoice and not a cost per post. 1,409 is a row count, not a count of posts, bureaus, or firms. Modifications can sit beside base awards.

One thousand four hundred nine lines are too many to narrate. Sort the agency 072 table by amount. Contractor names are unpublished here. Open Department of State rather than inventing a map of diplomatic posts. Do not infer a professional-firm census from 1,409 lines.

541990 obligations are not studies already delivered

NAICS 541990 is a residual professional, scientific, and technical services label — a catch-all, not a named specialty. $17,777,411,702.36 is not a punch-list of studies delivered and not cash already cleared. No fiscal year is published. A State professional-services spend plan is a different extract.

This extract does not split scientific from technical from other professional work inside 541990. Agency 072 on this slice also has management-consulting and biological-product joins; those NAICS keys are not 541990. This page will not invent those shares.

What the State 072 × 541990 table omits

Missing: post names, contractor names, or task-order titles. Present: $17,777,411,702.36, 1,409, agency 072, NAICS 541990, parent $165,614,781,383.14. Residual NAICS labels are easy to over-read as a specialty; 541990 remains a catch-all code. Do not rank agencies on this one NAICS cell.

NAICS 541990 is the industry parent. All agencies and All spending ties are indexes. FEC filings do not fund USAspending obligations. Quote the tagged pair only.

Where the State 072 × NAICS 541990 hubs live

Begin at Department of State for agency 072, then NAICS 541990 for NAICS 541990. All agencies and All spending ties complete the shelf. a residual-services administrative file, not a post census Post names and specialty splits are not in this packet. Do not annualize $17,777,411,702.36.

How to read the State 072 × 541990 pair

A join is not a mission narrative. Agency 072 × NAICS 541990 = $17,777,411,702.36 on 1,409 awards. That equation is the page. It is not a forecast, not an outlay, and not a contractor directory. Use the links to leave the intersection. Post names and specialty splits are not in this packet. Readers who reuse this agency-industry snapshot should keep both keys in the same sentence, cite USAspending.gov, and treat award rows as records rather than unique vendors. This narrative does not invent a fiscal year, a recipient list, or an outlay total the packet omitted. Keep the obligation word on the headline dollar figure in every footnote. A later ingest can restate the headline dollars without changing the join itself. Do not add parent hubs into this cell. Unique recipients remain unpublished. Mean dollars per award stay a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical invoice. Campaign-finance tables are a different dataset and do not fund these USAspending obligations. Quote the source, both keys, the obligation total, and the award count in one citation sentence so the pair cannot be mistaken for the agency’s full book.

Questions

How much Department of State 072 spending is coded to NAICS 541990?

USAspending.gov shows $17,777,411,702.36 in obligations for Department of State (agency 072) coded to NAICS 541990, across 1,409 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the agency’s full $165,614,781,383.14 book. Other industries are outside this join unless they also carry 541990.

Do 1,409 awards mean 1,409 diplomatic posts?

No. Award count is a row count of 1,409 actions and can include continuations. It is not a count of posts, bureaus, or firms. The packet does not name recipients. See Department of State for named lines as USAspending stored them.

Is agency 072 the same as agency 019 State?

No. USAspending stores 072 and 019 as distinct awarding-agency codes with different parent totals. This page is 072 × 541990 only. Agency 019 has its own NAICS joins on this slice. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both sides of the join in the citation.

Are these professional-services dollars already paid?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $17,777,411,702.36 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Remaining balances are not published in this packet. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.