Software Publishers federal obligations in FY2026
Federal awards coded to Software Publishers show $461,761,919.85 in USAspending.gov obligations for FY2026. NAICS 511210 is the industry key. The cell is not custom programming services, an app-store ranking, or a license-seat census. FY2026 obligations of $461,761,919.85 are about 2.2% of the industry’s $20,872,748,830.19 all-year obligation total in this extract — a thin slice of a large parent. The industry table lists 13,333 awards across the extract; that count is not limited to FY2026 on this packet. USAspending.gov is the source. Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- Software Publishers FY2026: $461,761,919.85 in USAspending obligations (NAICS 511210).
- FY2026 is about 2.2% of the industry all-year obligation total of $20,872,748,830.19.
- The industry table lists 13,333 awards across the extract, not a FY2026-only vendor census.
- The join is Software Publishers × FY2026, not custom computer programming or a commercial-license catalog.
- Figures are obligations, not outlays.
The Software Publishers × FY2026 join
The relationship is Software Publishers × FY2026. $461,761,919.85 is the tagged obligation total. Quote both sides. Dropping NAICS 511210 or dropping fiscal year 2026 turns a join into a different question. FY2026 figures can be incomplete for the current year; later ingests can restate the cell.
FY2026 yearlyTrend is that fiscal year’s obligation sum tagged to NAICS 511210. A different fiscal year for the same code is a separate overlay. Calendar-year industry statistics are not this time key. Campaign-finance tables are a different dataset; donations do not fund these USAspending obligations. This cell is not a named-publisher roster, a product catalog, or a seat count.
Software Publishers without a year filter is a different page
NAICS 511210 is Software Publishers. The code marks software publishers. This packet lists no award recipients and no contractor names. Confusing this join with custom computer programming or a commercial-license catalog would be a different table. Packet facts on the industry side are the name Software Publishers, code 511210, all-year obligations $20,872,748,830.19, and 13,333 awards. Any other recipient, program mix, or vendor list would be invented.
Readers sometimes treat a NAICS-year total as a budget Congress passed for a named activity. $461,761,919.85 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation rollup tagged to Software Publishers in FY2026. Sibling or neighboring codes such as custom-programming labels this publisher code does not carry sit outside this cell. Cite Software Publishers and FY2026. Do not invent vendors or award recipients.
FY2026 publisher rows can still be incomplete
Fiscal year 2026 is the yearlyTrend year key. It is not a calendar year and not a count of establishments in software publishers. Awards that carry a different year sit outside this cell even if the NAICS is still 511210. FY2026 obligations of $461,761,919.85 are about 2.2% of the industry’s $20,872,748,830.19 all-year obligation total in this extract — a thin slice of a large parent. Do not treat the all-year $20,872,748,830.19 as if it were the FY2026 headline.
13,333 awards as an industry table, not a title census
The extract lists 13,333 awards on the Software Publishers table. That is an industry-level award-record count, not a FY2026-only census published on this packet. Dividing $461,761,919.85 by 13,333 would mix a year cell with an all-year row count, so this page does not treat that quotient as a typical FY2026 invoice. Unique vendors are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without naming a new company.
App-store rankings the join cannot support
An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $461,761,919.85 is the former. Citing it as cash already cleared in FY2026 over-reads the field. The join cannot say that FY2026 specialized in software publishers because of federal demand. Keep $461,761,919.85 labeled as Software Publishers obligations in FY2026. It is not custom programming services, an app-store ranking, or a license-seat census.
Budget justifications, trade-association yearbooks, and private market-share reports answer other questions. They are not the source of this cell. If a chart mixes custom-programming labels this publisher code does not carry with NAICS 511210 in FY2026, the chart has left this join. Product names, publishers, and license counts are unpublished on this packet.
What this 511210 × FY2026 snapshot is not
Open the NAICS 511210 hub for the industry rollup, the FY2026 federal-spending hub for the fiscal-year rollup, the all-industries directory for other NAICS hubs, and the ties index for other pairs. None of those links convert this cell into custom computer programming or a commercial-license catalog, into outlays this packet omits, or into a contractor list. Cite both sides: Software Publishers and FY2026, $461,761,919.85, USAspending.gov, obligations only. NAICS 511210 remains the industry key.
Questions
- How much did Software Publishers show in federal obligations in FY2026?
- USAspending.gov records $461,761,919.85 in Software Publishers obligations for FY2026 (NAICS 511210). That is an obligation aggregate for the industry-year pair, not an outlay and not the government-wide FY2026 total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
- Is software-publishers FY2026 a complete fiscal year?
- No. $461,761,919.85 is a yearlyTrend obligation sum, not an outlay. Payments from the Treasury can lag or differ. This packet has no outlay total for Software Publishers in FY2026. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both the NAICS code and the fiscal year in the citation.
- Does 13,333 awards mean 13,333 software titles?
- No. 13,333 is the industry table’s award-record count in this extract, not a published FY2026-only recipient census. Unique vendors and places are unpublished. Modifications can add rows. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both the NAICS code and the fiscal year in the citation.
- Which pages parent Software Publishers FY2026?
- The NAICS 511210 hub is the industry parent. The FY2026 federal-spending hub is the year parent. All industries lists NAICS hubs. All spending ties lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later ingests; this page quotes Software Publishers × FY2026 at $461,761,919.85.
USAspending.gov NAICS yearlyTrend by fiscal year. Obligations are not outlays. FY figures can be incomplete for the current year.