National Science Foundation obligations in Computer Systems Design (541512)

NSF × 541512 is a systems-design join, not a grant map

The relationship is mechanical: industry code 541512 and awarding agency 049 on the same award roll into $574,018,132.43. The join is awarding agency 049 crossed with NAICS 541512, not the $41,750,201,192.18 NSF agency total. Remove either filter and the number changes. This page never claims the pair caused the other side to exist. 1.4% of National Science Foundation's $41,750,201,192.18 sits here; $41,176,183,059.75 sits in other industries on the National Science Foundation hub.

Fifty-one records is a thin IT file with a high implied mean. Fifty-one award lines can look sparse or crowded depending on the industry. Either way, 51 is not employment, not a plant census, and not a consultant headcount. USAspending counts award records. Unique recipients remain off this packet, so no contractor names appear here.

541511 programming is a sibling NSF cell

Cross-check the National Science Foundation hub if you need other NAICS under 049, NAICS 541512 if you need other agencies, All agencies for the portfolio, and All spending ties for other joins. Those URLs are parents and siblings, not addends for $574,018,132.43. Agency 049 is National Science Foundation. Department of Education 541720 R&D is a different agency and a different NAICS.

Custom programming (541511) and management consulting (541611) are other NSF professional cells in this slice. The join is awarding agency 049 crossed with NAICS 541512, not the $41,750,201,192.18 NSF agency total. Speech often blends neighboring services or manufacturing codes. This table does not. $574,018,132.43 is 541512 only, inside National Science Foundation only. Computer Systems Design Services at NSF is an awarding-agency × NAICS join, not a count of funded PIs.

51 awards behind $574 million

About $11.26 million per award comes from dividing $574,018,132.43 by 51. Use that ratio as a scale check, not as a typical National Science Foundation invoice. No median and no fiscal-year slice appear in the facts. Fifty-one records is a thin IT file with a high implied mean. Sparse cells can still be large in dollars; busy cells can be many small actions.

Systems-design obligations are not running cyberinfrastructure

$574,018,132.43 is obligated, not necessarily paid. Outlays, cancellations, and fiscal-year buckets are unpublished. 51 is the award-record count for NAICS 541512 at National Science Foundation. Do not upgrade the figure to 'National Science Foundation already received $574,018,132.43 in computer systems design payments.' Keep obligations as the verb. FEC itemizations do not fund this join.

Citing 049 × 541512

Industry presence at National Science Foundation and federal obligations in that industry can move together or not; this packet cannot say which. Computer Systems Design Services at NSF is an awarding-agency × NAICS join, not a count of funded PIs. Do not fold FEC donations into USAspending. Cite both sides: Computer Systems Design Services and National Science Foundation. Related indexes: All agencies and All spending ties, plus the National Science Foundation hub and NAICS 541512. Readers who reuse this agency-industry snapshot should keep both sides of the join in the same sentence, cite USAspending.gov as the source, and treat award rows as records rather than unique vendors. The live hubs linked from this page can refresh the snapshot; this narrative does not invent a fiscal year, a recipient list, or an outlay total that the packet omitted. Keep the obligation word on the headline dollar figure in every footnote. Do not annualize the obligation sum; this packet publishes no fiscal-year series. Award modifications can sit beside base records in the same row count. Parent agency and industry tables remain on the hubs linked from this page. Campaign-finance receipts are a different dataset and do not fund these awards.

Questions

How much did NSF obligate in NAICS 541512?

USAspending.gov shows $574,018,132.43 obligated on 51 awards where National Science Foundation meets NAICS 541512. That is the join total, not an outlay and not every National Science Foundation federal award. The industry string is Computer Systems Design Services.

Are 51 awards 51 universities?

The file has 51 awards and $574,018,132.43 in obligations. Sparse cells can still be large in dollars; busy cells can be many small actions. About $11.26 million per award is the quotient of those two facts. Recipients and medians are not in the packet.

Is this NSF's entire research book?

No. NSF's agency total is $41,750,201,192.18. This page is only NAICS 541512 under agency 049 at $574,018,132.43 on 51 awards. Research coded to other NAICS remains on the National Science Foundation hub. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Where are the parent National Science Foundation and NAICS 541512 tables?

The live parents are the National Science Foundation hub and NAICS 541512. All agencies indexes toptier books. All spending ties lists other pairs. This page holds only 049 × 541512 at $574,018,132.43. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.