NASA obligations in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences R&D (NAICS 541710)

NASA × 541710 is an R&D-code join, not a launch manifest

This page pairs awarding agency 080, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with NAICS 541710, Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences. The join is awarding-agency 080 crossed with a Census R&D industry code, not a launch manifest and not NASA’s entire $258,227,646,381.10 book. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $26,626,654,457.05 on 64 awards. The extract does not list center names, PI names, or mission titles. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which industry the agency “prefers,” and not a claim that 64 awards equal 64 laboratories or 64 flight programs.

Neighboring R&D codes — nanotechnology, biotechnology, or social-science research — sit outside this total unless they also carry 541710. Mixing those listings into $26,626,654,457.05 would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and a flight rate or a published NASA budget line is not causation. Kennedy-versus-Johnson 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 10.3% of that published agency total. Parent hubs are not addends.

64 awards behind $26.6 billion

Mean obligation is about $416.04 million if $26,626,654,457.05 were divided evenly across 64 lines. That ratio is not a typical research grant and not a cost per experiment. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of labs, missions, or principal investigators.

Sixty-four lines can hide a few large vehicles; sort the agency table by amount rather than reading this page as a roster. This page will not invent contractor or recipient names. Open National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the agency table. Do not convert 64 into a map of NASA centers. The $26,626,654,457.05 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines rather than inferring a laboratory census.

R&D obligations are not experiments already finished

NAICS 541710 is a residual physical-, engineering-, and life-sciences R&D label on the award file. The $26,626,654,457.05 headline is the obligation sum, not a punch-list of papers published and not a Treasury outlay total. No fiscal year is attached. A NASA appropriations table dated to a particular year is not automatically this join unless it uses agency 080, NAICS 541710, and the obligation metric.

The industry title is Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences. This extract does not split spaceflight research from aeronautics or from life-sciences work. Those cuts would require award documentation beyond dollars, 64 awards, agency 080, and NAICS 541710. This page will not invent a share. Agency 080’s other NAICS cells on this slice — engineering services and chartered freight air — are separate joins.

What the NASA 541710 table omits

The extract has no center names, PI names, or mission titles. Facts remain $26,626,654,457.05, 64 awards, agency 080, NAICS 541710, and the agency book $258,227,646,381.10. This page will not invent a ranking against other agencies’ 541710 joins. Mission names belong on award records if they appear as descriptions; they are not extra packet dollars.

NAICS 541710 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 $26,626,654,457.05 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 541710 hubs live

Start with National Aeronautics and Space Administration for agency 080’s published book behind the $258,227,646,381.10 parent. NAICS 541710 is the nationwide NAICS 541710 listing. All agencies lists other awarding agencies. All spending ties is the shelf for other agency-by-industry joins on the same obligation metric. Sixty-four awards totaling $26,626,654,457.05 remain an R&D-coded administrative file, not a lab census. Center names and experiment counts are not in this packet. The $26,626,654,457.05 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 $26,626,654,457.05: no fiscal year is in the facts.

How to read the NASA × 541710 pair

A ties page exists because two tables meet. One table is awarding agency 080 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). The other is NAICS 541710 (Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences). The headline $26,626,654,457.05 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 541710 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 NAICS 541710?

USAspending.gov shows $26,626,654,457.05 in obligations for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (agency 080) coded to NAICS 541710, across 64 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 541710.

Do 64 awards mean 64 NASA research centers?

No. Award count is a row count of 64 actions and can include continuations. It is not a count of labs, missions, or principal investigators. The packet does not name recipients. See National Aeronautics and Space Administration for named lines as USAspending stored them.

Is this NASA’s entire research budget?

No. The join is awarding agency 080 plus NAICS 541710. Other NASA industries use different codes. Those dollars are not inside $26,626,654,457.05 unless the award also carries 541710. The parent NASA book is $258,227,646,381.10.

Are these R&D dollars already spent on experiments?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $26,626,654,457.05 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Remaining balances are not published in this packet. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.