NASA obligations in Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation (NAICS 481212)

NASA × 481212 is a charter-freight join, not a flight log

Agency 080 and NAICS 481212 meet in this cell. $14,620,783,898.67 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s entire $258,227,646,381.10 book, not the national NAICS 481212 total, and not an outlay. The join is awarding-agency 080 crossed with NAICS 481212, not a cargo-flight log and not NASA’s entire $258,227,646,381.10 book. The pair is the only object this page measures. The extract does not list tail numbers, routes, or payload weights.

143 award records sit beside $14,620,783,898.67. Treating 143 as equal 143 flights or 143 aircraft would misread award rows as people, plants, or hulls. Unique recipients are unpublished. Scheduled air, passenger charter, and other transportation codes sit outside this total unless they also carry 481212. Those neighboring codes never enter $14,620,783,898.67 unless they also appear as 481212.

143 awards behind $14.6 billion

Dividing $14,620,783,898.67 by 143 yields about $102.24 million. That quotient is arithmetic, not a typical charter invoice and not a cost per pound. There is no median, no top-award table, and no fiscal-year breakout on this packet. Award count can include continuations. It is not a count of flights, aircraft, or payloads.

One hundred forty-three lines belong on the agency table. A short list can still hold large vehicles. Open National Aeronautics and Space Administration rather than inventing a contractor roster. Do not convert 143 into a map of cargo routes. Cape-Canaveral-versus-Vandenberg folklore is not a route split here. Correlation with a published cargo-flight count is not in this join. About 5.7% of the $258,227,646,381.10 agency book sits in this NAICS cell — a ratio of two packet facts, not a policy ranking.

Charter-air obligations are not sorties already flown

NAICS 481212 is a nonscheduled chartered freight-air label on the award file. $14,620,783,898.67 is the commitment aggregate, not a punch-list of sorties already flown. No year field is published. A NASA logistics flight schedule is a different file unless it uses agency 080, NAICS 481212, and obligations.

This extract does not split domestic from international charters, and it does not split spacecraft cargo from ordinary freight. NASA R&D and engineering joins on this slice are other NAICS keys with the same agency 080 filter. This page will not invent a sub-NAICS share. The industry label stays Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation. The awarding-agency label stays National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

What the NASA 481212 table omits

Facts remain $14,620,783,898.67, 143 awards, agency 080, NAICS 481212, and parent $258,227,646,381.10. Missing fields include tail numbers, routes, or payload weights. Payload weights and routes are not packet facts. Do not rank this pair against other agencies’ 481212 cells as a winner or loser.

NAICS 481212 shows NAICS 481212 without the agency 080 filter. All agencies and All spending ties are indexes, not addends. FEC donation tables do not fund USAspending obligations; the two systems do not share a payment rail. Quote $14,620,783,898.67 as the tagged pair only.

Where the NASA × NAICS 481212 hubs live

National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency 080 hub. NAICS 481212 is the industry hub. All agencies lists awarding agencies. All spending ties indexes other ties. 143 awards totaling $14,620,783,898.67 remain a freight-air administrative file, not a flight log. Tail numbers and routes are not in this packet. USAspending.gov is the source. Do not annualize $14,620,783,898.67.

How to read the NASA × 481212 pair

Two tables meet: awarding agency 080 and NAICS 481212. $14,620,783,898.67 is the obligation intersection, not a forecast and not an outlay. The join does not prove National Aeronautics and Space Administration caused Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation work, or the reverse. Open the linked hubs for parent totals. This narrative is not a vendor directory.

Questions

How much NASA spending is coded to chartered freight air?

USAspending.gov shows $14,620,783,898.67 in obligations for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (agency 080) coded to NAICS 481212, across 143 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 481212.

Do 143 awards mean 143 cargo flights?

No. Award count is a row count of 143 actions and can include continuations. It is not a count of flights, aircraft, or payloads. The packet does not name recipients. See National Aeronautics and Space Administration for named lines as USAspending stored them.

Is this NASA’s entire transportation budget?

No. The join is agency 080 plus NAICS 481212 only. Other NASA transportation-like codes are outside $14,620,783,898.67. The parent NASA book is $258,227,646,381.10. This page does not publish a flight log.

Has $14.6 billion already been paid to air carriers?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $14,620,783,898.67 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Remaining balances are not published in this packet. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.