Nav/Guidance Instrument Mfg in California 36th District (CA-36)
Place-of-performance CA-36 crossed with NAICS 334511 yields $4,278,797,687.38 in USAspending.gov obligations on 58 awards. Fifty-eight instrument rows equal about ten percent of California 36th — almost the same district share as CA-36's five-row 336414 missile cell, on a different industry key. That pair is Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, And Nautical System And Instrument Manufacturing (NAICS 334511) and California 36th District (CA-36) — not California's entire federal inflow, not NAICS 334511 nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 9.9% of this district's published obligation total ($43,332,669,736.78). Implied average obligation is about $73,772,373.92 ($4,278,797,687.38 ÷ 58). The packet does not publish a fiscal year on this join. Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- Nav/Guidance Mfg in California 36th District (CA-36): $4,278,797,687.38 across 58 USAspending awards (NAICS 334511).
- Implied mean about $73,772,373.92 per record; district share 9.9% of $43,332,669,736.78.
- NAICS 334511 × CA-36 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote /districts/CA-36/ and /industries/334511/ if live tables moved.
- /states/ca/ and /ties/ are a parent and an index, not amounts to add into $4,278,797,687.38.
The California 36th District (CA-36) filter on Nav/Guidance Mfg
Congressional district CA-36 and NAICS 334511 meet here. $4,278,797,687.38 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, And Nautical System And Instrument Manufacturing's nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to California 36th District (CA-36), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split search versus navigation versus guidance instruments, or contract versus assistance. 58 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. This cell is not a sensor serial list, a named-platform catalog, or a contractor roster.
Dividing $4,278,797,687.38 by 58 yields about $73,772,373.92 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 58 awards is a compact 334511 file, close to VA-10's 61-row count and far thinner than MA-03's 354. Do not treat CA-36's 334511 cell as a synonym for every Nav/Guidance Mfg account nationwide. Open /districts/CA-36/ (California 36th District) for the district table without this NAICS filter, /industries/334511/ (NAICS 334511) for NAICS 334511 without a CA-36 filter, /states/ca/ (California federal spending) for every industry in the California extract, and /ties/ (All spending ties) for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $4,278,797,687.38.
The search, detection, navigation, guidance, aeronautical, and nautical system and instrument manufacturing rollup
USAspending labels NAICS 334511 as Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, And Nautical System And Instrument Manufacturing. That code produced $4,278,797,687.38 when crossed with California 36th District (CA-36) place of performance. The industry-wide 334511 hub does not require CA-36 geography. The district hub does not require Nav/Guidance Mfg. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 58 awards. The packet does not split search versus navigation versus guidance instruments, or contract versus assistance.
Correlation is not causation: California 36th District (CA-36) did not cause $4,278,797,687.38 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 334511 × CA-36 only. This cell is not a sensor serial list, a named-platform catalog, or a contractor roster. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.
Reading the CA-36 stamp
California 36th District (CA-36) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list CA-36 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other California districts belong on those ties even when the industry is also NAICS 334511. California 36th District (CA-36) is not California 50th. Matching a ten-percent share across two NAICS codes on CA-36 is arithmetic, not a combined aerospace total.
/states/ca/ shows how NAICS 334511 sits beside other industries in the same state extract. $4,278,797,687.38 is one district-industry column, not the state table. This packet does not split California 36th District (CA-36) by county, city, or census tract. Awards that carry a different NAICS stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, And Nautical System And Instrument Manufacturing. The district-wide obligation total published here is $43,332,669,736.78; $4,278,797,687.38 is the Nav/Guidance Mfg slice of that denominator.
USAspending obligations on this pair
USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $4,278,797,687.38 is that kind of sum for Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, And Nautical System And Instrument Manufacturing inside CA-36 coding. 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 $4,278,797,687.38 as given.
California's own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 58-row Nav/Guidance Mfg cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 58 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. The implied mean ($73,772,373.92) is a concentration statistic, not a typical CA-36 Nav/Guidance Mfg payment.
Citing $4,278,797,687.38 without dropping a join side
Cite USAspending.gov: Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, And Nautical System And Instrument Manufacturing (NAICS 334511) obligated $4,278,797,687.38 on 58 awards coded to California 36th District (CA-36). Name Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, And Nautical System And Instrument Manufacturing and California 36th District (CA-36) together. Keep the obligation word. If /districts/CA-36/ or /industries/334511/ has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a sensor serial list, a named-platform catalog, or a contractor roster. 9.9% of $43,332,669,736.78 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.
Row count versus dollar concentration
58 awards is a compact 334511 file, close to VA-10's 61-row count and far thinner than MA-03's 354. Do not add CA-36's 334511 and 336414 cells. The packet never published that sum. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $73,772,373.92) and the district share (9.9% of $43,332,669,736.78) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer /districts/CA-36/ and /industries/334511/ if the live tables moved. Keep search-and-guidance manufacturing paired with CA-36. Statewide California spending is the mixed-industry parent.
Questions
- How much Nav/Guidance Mfg spending is coded to California 36th District (CA-36)?
- USAspending.gov lists $4,278,797,687.38 in Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, And Nautical System And Instrument Manufacturing obligations across 58 awards with place of performance in California 36th District (CA-36). NAICS 334511 × CA-36 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not California's complete federal ledger. The cell is 9.9% of the district's published total ($43,332,669,736.78). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $73,772,373.92, a ratio of those two facts only.
- Does $4,278,797,687.38 include every Nav/Guidance Mfg program in CA-36?
- The packet publishes one NAICS rollup. The packet does not split search versus navigation versus guidance instruments, or contract versus assistance. $4,278,797,687.38 is the combined obligation sum for NAICS 334511 inside CA-36 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open /industries/334511/ and /districts/CA-36/ to inspect parent tables. 58 remains an action count, not a program count.
- Is $4,278,797,687.38 cash already paid in California 36th District (CA-36)?
- 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 $4,278,797,687.38 as checks already cleared in California 36th District (CA-36) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 58 awards. Prefer the live district and industry hubs if the tables moved.
- Why is the implied average $73,772,373.92 not a typical award?
- The average is $4,278,797,687.38 divided by 58 awards, about $73,772,373.92. Thick files pull the mean down; thin files pull it up. Neither case publishes a typical instrument. Modifications add rows. Recipients are unpublished. Use the ratio only as a concentration statistic.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to NAICS industry. Obligations are not outlays.