Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (Except Nanotechnology And Biotechnology) federal obligations in FY2026

The two-key cell: research and development in the physical, engineering, and life sciences (except nanotechnology and biotechnology) in FY2026

NAICS 541715 and fiscal year 2026 meet here. $496,714,123.87 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on the yearlyTrend row that carries both tags. It is not Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (Except Nanotechnology And Biotechnology)'s nationwide all-year total of $208,029,146,588.15, not every federal dollar coded to FY2026, and not an outlay register. The packet does not split physical from engineering from life-science lines, and it excludes nanotechnology and biotechnology by NAICS definition. 31,941 is an industry-extract action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows across years. Unique recipients are unpublished. This cell is not a lab census, a named-PI roster, or a publication log.

Open /industries/541715/ (NAICS 541715) for the industry table without this FY2026 filter, /fiscal-years/2026/ (FY2026 federal spending) for the year table without this NAICS filter, /industries/ (All industries) for every industry, and /ties/ (All spending ties) for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $496,714,123.87. 541715 is not residual professional services (541990). Research versus residual catch-all stay separate. FY2026 figures can be incomplete.

This page reports research and development in the physical, engineering, and life sciences (except nanotechnology and biotechnology) activity USAspending tagged to FY2026. The headline $496,714,123.87 sits beside an industry-wide obligation total of $208,029,146,588.15; the 0.2% share is arithmetic on those two packet facts, not a ranking of fiscal years as winners or losers. Obligations are not outlays. Named PIs and publication counts are unpublished. Do not forecast a full-year R&D book from this snapshot.

Physical/Life Sci R&D is the industry key, not a program name

USAspending labels NAICS 541715 as Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (Except Nanotechnology And Biotechnology). That code produced $496,714,123.87 when crossed with fiscal year 2026. The industry-wide 541715 hub does not require a FY2026 filter. The year hub does not require Physical/Life Sci R&D. Only this tie applies both filters. The packet does not split physical from engineering from life-science lines, and it excludes nanotechnology and biotechnology by NAICS definition. Except-nanotechnology-and-biotechnology is the Census scope. This page will not add those excluded fields back. Do not divide the year cell by 31,941.

Keeping 31,941 off the yearlyTrend clock

31,941 is the Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (Except Nanotechnology And Biotechnology) award-record count published with the industry extract, not a count of FY2026 instruments. Dividing $496,714,123.87 by 31,941 would mix a one-year dollar total with a multi-year row count, so this page does not publish that ratio as a typical invoice. Unique recipients are unpublished. Modifications and multi-year vehicles can add lines without adding vendors. A mass-action parent is the industry extract across years, not a FY2026 lab census and not unique investigators. FY2026 figures can be incomplete for the current year, so even the dollar cell may still move.

Deobligations can still move the cell

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $496,714,123.87 is that kind of sum for Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (Except Nanotechnology And Biotechnology) in FY2026. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same NAICS rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $496,714,123.87 as given.

Treat 31,941 as award records on the industry extract, not unique vendors and not a FY2026 headcount. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. FEC contribution tables do not fund these awards. Named PIs and publication counts are unpublished. Do not forecast a full-year R&D book from this snapshot.

/ties/ is an index, not an addend

Cite USAspending.gov: Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (Except Nanotechnology And Biotechnology) (NAICS 541715) obligated $496,714,123.87 in FY2026. Name Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (Except Nanotechnology And Biotechnology) and FY2026 together. Keep the obligation word. If /industries/541715/ or /fiscal-years/2026/ has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a lab census, a named-PI roster, or a publication log. 0.2% of $208,029,146,588.15 is the industry share on this packet, not a budget score. /industries/ lists other industries; /ties/ indexes other pairs.

Where Physical/Life Sci R&D in FY2026 stops

A mass-action parent is the industry extract across years, not a FY2026 lab census and not unique investigators. 541715 is not residual professional services (541990). Research versus residual catch-all stay separate. FY2026 figures can be incomplete. A reader who quotes 31,941 as unique companies in FY2026 has left the packet. A reader who treats 0.2% as a hardship or success ranking has added a score the table does not carry. Prefer /industries/541715/ and /fiscal-years/2026/ if the live tables moved. Named PIs and publication counts are unpublished. Do not forecast a full-year R&D book from this snapshot.

Questions

How much Physical/Life Sci R&D spending is obligated in FY2026?

USAspending.gov lists $496,714,123.87 in Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (Except Nanotechnology And Biotechnology) (NAICS 541715) obligations for FY2026. That yearlyTrend amount is 0.2% of the industry's $208,029,146,588.15 extract-wide total. It is an obligation join, not an outlay and not every federal dollar in FY2026. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Is $496,714,123.87 the entire Physical/Life Sci R&D USAspending total?

No. NAICS 541715's extract-wide total is $208,029,146,588.15. FY2026 is 0.2% of that book. Other fiscal-year rows for the same industry are separate cells. Do not add /industries/541715/ into this join. 31,941 award records stay on the industry extract, not on this yearlyTrend row.

Is $496,714,123.87 cash already paid in FY2026?

No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet's headline. Treating $496,714,123.87 as checks already cleared in FY2026 confuses those terms. Prefer the live industry and year hubs if the tables moved.

Are FY2026 figures final?

Not necessarily. The source note says FY figures can be incomplete for the current year. $496,714,123.87 is the published yearlyTrend amount for NAICS 541715 in FY2026 on this snapshot. Prefer /industries/541715/ and /fiscal-years/2026/ if live tables moved. Outlays are unpublished.