NASA obligations in Engineering Services (NAICS 541330)

NASA × 541330 is an engineering-services join, not a staff roster

This page pairs awarding agency 080, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with NAICS 541330, Engineering Services. The join is awarding-agency 080 crossed with NAICS 541330, not a center engineering-staff census and not NASA’s entire $258,227,646,381.10 book. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $14,849,293,599.53 on 1,054 awards. The extract does not list center names, engineer names, or vehicle titles. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which industry the agency “prefers,” and not a claim that 1,054 awards equal 1,054 engineers or 1,054 task orders as unique people.

R&D (541710) and other professional codes sit outside this total unless they also carry 541330. Mixing those listings into $14,849,293,599.53 would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and a civil-service engineering headcount is not causation. JPL-versus-Marshall folklore is not a center split in this packet. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration parent book is $258,227,646,381.10; this NAICS cell is about 5.8% of that published agency total. Parent hubs are not addends.

1,054 awards behind $14.8 billion

Mean obligation is about $14.09 million if $14,849,293,599.53 were divided evenly across 1,054 lines. That ratio is not a typical engineering task order and not a loaded labor rate. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of engineers, centers, or vehicles.

One thousand fifty-four lines are too many to list here. Sort the NASA table by amount. This page will not invent contractor or recipient names. Open National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the agency table. Do not convert 1,054 into a map of NASA engineering centers. The $14,849,293,599.53 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines rather than inferring an engineer census.

Engineering obligations are not drawings already released

NAICS 541330 is an engineering-services label on the award file, not a named flight-hardware program. The $14,849,293,599.53 headline is the obligation sum, not a punch-list of drawings already released and not a Treasury outlay total. No fiscal year is attached. A NASA engineering workforce table dated to a particular year is not automatically this join unless it uses agency 080, NAICS 541330, and the obligation metric.

The industry title is Engineering Services. This extract does not split systems engineering from civil, electrical, or aerospace specialties. Those cuts would require award documentation beyond dollars, 1,054 awards, agency 080, and NAICS 541330. This page will not invent a share. NASA’s 541710 R&D join and 481212 freight-air join on this slice use different industry keys.

What the NASA 541330 table omits

The extract has no center names, engineer names, or vehicle titles. Facts remain $14,849,293,599.53, 1,054 awards, agency 080, NAICS 541330, and the agency book $258,227,646,381.10. This page will not invent a ranking against other agencies’ 541330 joins. Specialty engineering titles are not a field in this packet.

NAICS 541330 is the national industry hub. All agencies and All spending ties place this pair among other awarding agencies and other ties. Mixing those shelves would invent a share of federal spending the packet never computed. The $14,849,293,599.53 figure is the tagged pair only. Campaign-finance filings are a different public-record system; this join does not claim donations funded these obligations.

Where the NASA × NAICS 541330 hubs live

Start with National Aeronautics and Space Administration for agency 080’s published book behind the $258,227,646,381.10 parent. NAICS 541330 is the nationwide NAICS 541330 listing. All agencies lists other awarding agencies. All spending ties is the shelf for other agency-by-industry joins on the same obligation metric. 1,054 awards totaling $14,849,293,599.53 remain an engineering-coded administrative file, not an engineer census. Center names and labor rates are not in this packet. The $14,849,293,599.53 total is the tagged pair only. USAspending.gov remains the source; SpendingVault republishes the join. If a later extract revises the rollup, this page’s facts will be stale until the packet is rebuilt. Do not annualize $14,849,293,599.53: no fiscal year is in the facts.

How to read the NASA × 541330 pair

A ties page exists because two tables meet. One table is awarding agency 080 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). The other is NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services). The headline $14,849,293,599.53 is the obligation sum on that intersection. It is not a forecast, not a budget request, and not an outlay. It is also not a claim that National Aeronautics and Space Administration caused the industry to exist, or that NAICS 541330 caused the agency’s mission. Correlation between an awarding-agency code and a Census industry code is the join — nothing more. Use the internal links to step off this pair. If you need award-level names, open the agency overlay rather than treating this narrative as a contractor directory.

Questions

How much NASA spending is coded to engineering services?

USAspending.gov shows $14,849,293,599.53 in obligations for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (agency 080) coded to NAICS 541330, across 1,054 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the agency’s full $258,227,646,381.10 book. Other industries are outside this join unless they also carry 541330.

Do 1,054 awards mean 1,054 NASA engineers?

No. Award count is a row count of 1,054 actions and can include continuations. It is not a count of engineers, centers, or vehicles. The packet does not name recipients. See National Aeronautics and Space Administration for named lines as USAspending stored them.

Is this the same as NASA’s 541710 R&D cell?

No. NAICS 541710 is a separate NASA join on this slice with its own dollar total. This page is 541330 only. Mixing the two R&D-like labels invents a combined NASA science-and-engineering figure. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Are these engineering dollars already paid?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $14,849,293,599.53 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Remaining balances are not published in this packet. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.