National Science Foundation obligations in Facilities Support Services (NAICS 561210)

NSF × 561210 is a facilities-support join, not a station census

NAICS 561210 is a facilities-support-services label on the award file. The dollar figure $3,009,993,253.75 applies only where agency 049 and NAICS 561210 are both present. National Science Foundation is larger because it includes other industries. NAICS 561210 is larger because it includes other agencies. This tie is the intersection. The extract does not list facility names, polar-site labels, or staff counts.

Eleven actions produced the cell. Award rows are not the same as establishments in the Economic Census. A single vendor can hold several of the 11 records. The packet does not identify vendors. 11 is not equal 11 laboratories or 11 support contractors as unique sites.

11 awards behind $3.0 billion

Other NSF industries sit outside this total unless they also carry 561210. Residual or neighboring codes are easy to merge in speech and wrong to merge in this table. $3,009,993,253.75 stays inside agency 049 × NAICS 561210 only. Mean obligation is about $273.64 million, not a typical base-operations invoice and not a cost per site. Count is not a count of labs, stations, or contractors.

Eleven lines are scannable on the agency table; a short list can still hold large vehicles. This page will not invent contractor names. Open National Science Foundation for stored agency rows. Do not convert 11 into a map of NSF research facilities or infer a facility census. Antarctic-versus-observatory folklore is not a site list in this packet. About 7.2% of $41,750,201,192.18 sits in this NAICS slice — still not a ranking.

Facilities-support obligations are not work orders already closed

$3,009,993,253.75 is the commitment sum, not a punch-list of work orders already closed. No fiscal year is in the facts. A NSF major-facilities operations table is not this join unless it uses the same two keys and the obligation metric.

The listing title is Facilities Support Services. This extract does not split polar logistics from observatory support inside 561210. State 019 also has a 561210 join on this slice; that awarding-agency key is not 049. Inventing those splits would leave the packet.

What the NSF 561210 table omits

Omitted fields include facility names, polar-site labels, or staff counts. Remaining facts: $3,009,993,253.75, 11 awards, agency 049, NAICS 561210, parent $41,750,201,192.18. Facility names are unpublished. Do not invent a station list from 11 rows.

NAICS 561210, All agencies, and All spending ties are related shelves. Adding them to $3,009,993,253.75 invents a share. Donations reported to the FEC do not pay these awards. Different statutes, different tables.

Where the NSF × NAICS 561210 hubs live

Cite from National Science Foundation and NAICS 561210, then use All agencies and All spending ties for context. Eleven awards totaling $3,009,993,253.75 remain a facilities-support administrative file, not a station census. Site names and staff counts are not in this packet. Do not annualize $3,009,993,253.75: no fiscal year is in the facts. USAspending.gov is the originating system. Parent hubs remain separate tables and are not folded into this cell.

How to read the NSF × 561210 pair

The relationship is mechanical: agency 049 plus NAICS 561210 roll into $3,009,993,253.75. Remove either filter and the number changes. This page never claims the pair caused the other side to exist. If you need names, leave this narrative and open National Science Foundation. Campaign-finance tables are a different dataset. Quote $3,009,993,253.75, 11 awards, agency 049, and NAICS 561210 together. Site names and staff counts are not in this packet. Readers who reuse this agency-industry snapshot should keep both keys in the same sentence, cite USAspending.gov, and treat award rows as records rather than unique vendors. This narrative does not invent a fiscal year, a recipient list, or an outlay total the packet omitted. Keep the obligation word on the headline dollar figure in every footnote. A later ingest can restate the headline dollars without changing the join itself. Do not add parent hubs into this cell. Unique recipients remain unpublished. Mean dollars per award stay a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical invoice.

Questions

How much NSF spending is coded to facilities support?

USAspending.gov shows $3,009,993,253.75 in obligations for National Science Foundation (agency 049) coded to NAICS 561210, across 11 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the agency’s full $41,750,201,192.18 book. Other industries are outside this join unless they also carry 561210.

Do 11 awards mean 11 NSF research stations?

No. Award count is a row count of 11 actions and can include continuations. It is not a count of labs, stations, or contractors. The packet does not name recipients. See National Science Foundation for named lines as USAspending stored them.

Is this the same as State 019 facilities support?

No. State 019’s 561210 cell uses a different awarding-agency code and 1,226 awards. This page is NSF (049) × 561210. Adding the two invents a combined facilities-support figure. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both sides of the join in the citation.

Has $3.0 billion already been paid for facility operations?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $3,009,993,253.75 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Remaining balances are not published in this packet. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.