Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences R&D in Virginia (NAICS 541712)

NAICS 541712 intersecting Virginia

NAICS 541712 is research and development in the physical, engineering, and life sciences except biotechnology, not communications-equipment manufacturing and not CPA offices. The dollar figure $230,393,438.71 applies only where the industry code and the VA geography are both present. Virginia federal spending is larger because it includes other NAICS. NAICS 541712 is larger because it includes other states. This tie is the intersection.

1,145 actions produced the Virginia book. 1,145 awards against $230,393,438.71 is a nine-figure R&D cell: many records against a large obligation sum. Award rows are not the same as establishments in the Economic Census. A single vendor can hold several of the 1,145 records. The packet does not identify vendors.

Readers comparing codes should open /states/va/industries/ rather than inferring rank from this one cell. /ties/ collects other intersections. /industries/541712/ without the Virginia filter is a different total. None of those pages should be added into $230,393,438.71.

Physical and life R&D, not comms equipment

Communications-equipment and CPA-office codes stay on other Virginia industry pages. Residual or neighboring codes are easy to merge in speech and wrong to merge in this table. NAICS 541712 is research and development in the physical, engineering, and life sciences except biotechnology, not communications-equipment manufacturing and not CPA offices. $230,393,438.71 stays inside 541712 × VA only.

The implied mean of about $201,217 is $230,393,438.71 / 1,145. Physical/life-sciences R&D except biotechnology is a services label, not a hardware NAICS. This extract does not name labs, investigators, or primes. There is no distribution in the packet: no p50, no largest award, no fiscal year. A high mean can be one vehicle; a low mean can be many delivery orders. This extract cannot tell those stories apart.

Virginia geography on a 541712 cell

Virginia place of performance can cover Arlington, Norfolk, Charlottesville, or a reporting convention. The packet has no lab split. Ordinary maps mention Arlington, Norfolk, or a named research lab. This extract has no such split. All of those places, if they appear at all, share VA inside $230,393,438.71.

USAspending place of performance is a reporting field. It can diverge from where parts were made, where patients were seen, or where a ship was docked. This page repeats the coded Virginia tag. It does not audit the field. /states/va/ uses the same geography convention across industries.

Commitments, not payments, for Virginia 541712

Obligations are not outlays. $230,393,438.71 is the commitment aggregate for this pair. Later modifications can raise or lower what is eventually paid. The packet does not report outlays or a fiscal-year series. Quote 1,145 as award records. Do not call $230,393,438.71 spent in Virginia this year — no year is published here.

What the R&D–Virginia pair does not prove

Physical/life-sciences R&D except biotechnology is a services label, not a hardware NAICS. This extract does not name labs, investigators, or primes. Federal awards in one NAICS do not explain Virginia employment, and itemized campaign gifts do not pay USAspending obligations. Different statutes, different tables. Cite NAICS 541712 and Virginia together so the join stays visible.

How to cite NAICS 541712 in Virginia

Footnote form: USAspending.gov; NAICS 541712 Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (Except Biotechnology); place of performance Virginia; obligations $230,393,438.71; awards 1,145; mean about $201,217 (ratio only). Link /states/va/ and /industries/541712/ as parents, /states/va/industries/ as the in-state index, and /ties/ as other pairs. Leave population and years out; they are not packet facts. Readers who reuse VA physical/life R&D (541712): $230M 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. Place of performance remains a geography tag, not proof that work stayed inside the named state.

Questions

How much has NAICS 541712 obligated in Virginia?

$230,393,438.71 is the USAspending obligation total for NAICS 541712 with Virginia place of performance, on 1,145 awards. It is not an outlay and not Virginia’s full federal book. The industry title on the award file is Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (Except Biotechnology).

Are 1,145 awards a Virginia lab count?

1,145 records hold $230,393,438.71. Whether that is concentrated or scattered is not something the packet proves beyond the two facts. About $201,217 per award is only the quotient. Unique recipients, medians, and fiscal years are unpublished.

Is this the same as Virginia communications-equipment manufacturing?

No. $230,393,438.71 is NAICS 541712 — research and development in the physical, engineering, and life sciences except biotechnology — with Virginia place of performance on 1,145 awards. Equipment codes use a different six-digit. Quote 541712 and Virginia together and keep the obligation label.

Where are the parent Virginia and NAICS 541712 tables?

/states/va/, /industries/541712/, /states/va/industries/, and /ties/ are the four related tables listed on this page. Use them for parent or sibling views. This join stays 541712 in VA at $230,393,438.71. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.