National Science Foundation obligations in All Other Professional, Scientific, And Technical Services (NAICS 541990)

NSF × 541990 is a residual-services join, not a research-grant census

National Science Foundation as awarding agency 049, All Other Professional, Scientific, And Technical Services as NAICS 541990: 45 records summing to $92,808,794.47. The pair is awarding-agency 049 crossed with NAICS 541990, a residual professional bin, not NSF’s research-grant science portfolio and not the $41.75 billion agency book. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking, and not a claim that 45 awards equal that many research grants, unique PIs, or named universities. A National Science Foundation award coded to a different NAICS is out. A 541990 award from a different awarding agency is out even if the work sounds related.

Other computer-related services (541519) for NSF is a different industry join. Correlation between this obligation sum and mission outcomes is not causation. Those outcomes are not in the packet. Campaign contributions recorded on FEC.gov do not fund this USAspending cell. National Science Foundation is the agency parent. NAICS 541990 is the industry parent. All agencies lists awarding agencies. All spending ties indexes other pairs.

45 NSF rows inside a catch-all professional NAICS

Mean obligation is about $2.06 million if $92,808,794.47 were divided evenly across 45 lines. That ratio is a quotient of two packet facts, not a published typical award. Forty-five awards against $92.8 million is a short residual-services file beside a much larger NSF parent, not a row per award to a university. Award count is a row count, including possible orders and modifications. It is not a census of research grants, unique PIs, or named universities.

Forty-five awards are a record count, not a vendor roster. This page will not invent recipient names. Named universities and residual vendors are unpublished. Forty-five awards are not forty-five NSF research grants. The $92,808,794.47 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. NSF’s full awarding-agency book is $41,750,201,192.18; mixing that parent into $92,808,794.47 invents a roll-up the packet never computed.

NSF 541990 dollars are not science awards already drawn

An obligation is a recorded commitment. An outlay is a payment. The $92,808,794.47 headline is the obligation sum, not scientific services already delivered. No fiscal year is attached in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Citing the figure as cash already sent under All Other Professional, Scientific, And Technical Services confuses two USAspending concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Named universities and residual vendors are unpublished. Forty-five awards are not forty-five NSF research grants. Unique recipients are unpublished. Keep the obligation label on $92,808,794.47. FEC filings and USAspending awards are different datasets, even when the same vendor name appears in both systems.

What the NSF–541990 cell is not

The extract has no roster of research grants, unique PIs, or named universities. Facts remain $92,808,794.47, 45 awards, NAICS 541990, and National Science Foundation (agency 049). This page will not invent a contractor league table. Sibling National Science Foundation × NAICS joins are separate obligation totals, not a better or worse score. Other computer-related services (541519) for NSF is a different industry join.

National Science Foundation places agency 049 among other awarding agencies. NAICS 541990 is the national industry hub. All agencies is the agency index. All spending ties indexes other awarding-agency × NAICS pairs. Mixing those shelves would invent a share of NSF’s full awarding-agency book the packet never computed. The $92,808,794.47 figure is the tagged pair only.

Citing the National Science Foundation with 541990

A clean footnote names National Science Foundation (agency 049), All Other Professional, Scientific, And Technical Services (NAICS 541990), $92,808,794.47 in obligations, and 45 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Mean dollars per action remain about $2.06 million. Quote National Science Foundation if you need every industry under agency 049, and quote NAICS 541990 if you need the code without the NSF filter. Forty-five awards totaling $92,808,794.47 remain a NAICS 541990 file, not a census of research grants, unique PIs, or named universities. Inspect named award lines on USAspending.gov rather than inferring inventories the packet omitted.

Questions

How much has National Science Foundation obligated in NAICS 541990?

USAspending.gov shows $92,808,794.47 in obligations for awarding agency 049 tagged to All Other Professional, Scientific, And Technical Services (NAICS 541990), across 45 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not NSF’s full awarding-agency book. Other NAICS codes are outside this join unless they also carry 541990.

Do 45 awards equal 45 NSF research grants?

No. Award count is a row count of award actions and can include orders and modifications. It is not a census of research grants, unique PIs, or named universities. The packet does not name recipients. The implied mean near $2.06 million is a ratio, not a typical unit. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Is this NSF’s full awarding-agency book?

No. The join is awarding agency 049 crossed with NAICS 541990. The agency parent in this packet is $41,750,201,192.18. Related industries on other NAICS numbers are not inside $92,808,794.47. Other computer-related services (541519) for NSF is a different industry join.

Is the All Other Professional, Scientific, And Technical Services total already paid by NSF?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $92,808,794.47 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault's extract. Completed activity and remaining balances are not published in this packet. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.