Department of Transportation obligations in NAICS 334511 navigation systems

DOT × 334511 is a navigation-instrument join, not a fleet map

Agency 069 and industry 334511 meet in this cell. $2,654,514,987.35 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Transportation's entire book of $415,288,372,621.56, not the national NAICS 334511 total, and not an outlay. The join is awarding agency 069 crossed with NAICS 334511, not DOT's entire modal budget and not every transportation gadget. The pair is the only object this page measures. Correlation is not causation: a large navigation instruments cell at Department of Transportation does not prove the agency exists to buy that industry.

Three hundred eighty-nine awards sit beside $2,654,514,987.35. Three hundred eighty-nine records is a mid-size contract file, not a factory census. The count can include contracts, orders, and modifications. Treating 389 as a roster of vendors would misread award records as firms. Unique recipients are unpublished on this packet; this narrative names none. 0.64% of Department of Transportation's $415,288,372,621.56 agency total sits in this NAICS 334511 slice; the complement $412,633,857,634.21 remains in other codes on the Department of Transportation hub.

Agency 069's other industries sit outside $2.65 billion

Agency 069 is Department of Transportation on this extract. Other DOT-sounding labels under different codes are other hubs. Open the Department of Transportation agency page for every industry under agency 069, NAICS 334511 for the code without an agency filter, All agencies for the portfolio index, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parent tables into $2,654,514,987.35.

The join is awarding agency 069 crossed with NAICS 334511, not DOT's entire modal budget and not every transportation gadget. Sibling NAICS codes stay on other industry pages: Aircraft manufacturing, search-and-detection electronics under other six-digit codes, and broader computer-electronics groups stay on other NAICS pages. Mixing those dollars into $2,654,514,987.35 would invent a roll-up the packet does not publish. NAICS 334511 is the only industry key on this Department of Transportation tie. Radar, GPS, and nautical-instrument folklore is not a packet column; only code 334511 is in this cell.

389 awards and a mid-seven-figure mean

Dividing $2,654,514,987.35 by 389 awards yields about $6.82 million per award. That mean is a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical invoice and not a median. The packet has no fiscal-year split, no de-obligation history, and no named contractor list. Three hundred eighty-nine records is a mid-size contract file, not a factory census. A high mean can be a handful of large vehicles; a low mean can be many delivery orders. This extract cannot tell those stories apart.

Obligations are not instruments already shipped

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $2,654,514,987.35 is the former. Citing the figure as cash already cleared by Department of Transportation over-reads the field. 389 remains an award-record count, not a payment count. Keep the obligation word when you quote NAICS 334511 at Department of Transportation. Itemized campaign gifts on FEC.gov are a different statute and do not fund these USAspending awards.

How to cite the DOT 334511 overlay

A clean footnote names Department of Transportation (agency 069), NAICS 334511 (Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, And Nautical System And Instrument Manufacturing), $2,654,514,987.35 in obligations, and 389 awards on USAspending.gov. Quote the Department of Transportation hub if you need every industry under 069, and quote NAICS 334511 if you need the code without the agency filter. All agencies and All spending ties are indexes, not addends. Radar, GPS, and nautical-instrument folklore is not a packet column; only code 334511 is in this cell. Do not per-capita the total; population is unpublished here.

Questions

How much did DOT obligate in NAICS 334511?

USAspending.gov records $2,654,514,987.35 in obligations for Department of Transportation awards coded to NAICS 334511 (Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, And Nautical System And Instrument Manufacturing), covering 389 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for the agency–industry pair, not an outlay and not Department of Transportation's $415,288,372,621.56 agency total.

Are 389 awards 389 avionics vendors?

The extract lists 389 award actions totaling $2,654,514,987.35. Average obligation per award is about $6.82 million, a ratio, not a typical invoice. Unique recipients are not published on this packet, so this page names no contractors.

Does this include every DOT electronics purchase?

No. Only awards coded to NAICS 334511 under agency 069 enter $2,654,514,987.35. Other electronics and vehicle codes at DOT remain on the Department of Transportation hub and are not added here. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Where are the parent Department of Transportation and NAICS 334511 tables?

The Department of Transportation agency hub shows every industry under agency 069. NAICS 334511 shows the code without an agency filter. All agencies is the portfolio index. All spending ties lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later USAspending ingests.