NAICS 541712 Federal Contracts: $13.4B & Top Contractors
Federal spend by industry (NAICS)
How much does the federal government spend under NAICS 541712 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)), and who wins the contracts?
Federal prime-contract spending under NAICS 541712 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)), as the public record states it — total obligated, the contractors who win the work, the agencies that buy it, and the fiscal-year trend, stated as exact dated facts with their source, never a score or label. Confirm the full picture at USASpending.gov →
The federal government has $13,434,015,009 obligated across 34 prime-award actions on file to 12 contractors under NAICS 541712 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)), on the prime-award records Fonteum currently holds. Every figure is an exact USASpending.gov fact — no score, no label; confirm the full picture at USASpending.gov.
At a glance
$13,434,015,009
Obligated across prime awards on file
34
Prime-award actions on file
12
Distinct contractors
5
Distinct awarding agencies
Top contractors — largest recipients of Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology) awards
How much of the federal spending under Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology) runs through a small-business or socioeconomic set-aside vehicle — an exact ratio of public dollars, not an eligibility determination.
NAICS 541712 is Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology) in the North American Industry Classification System — the standard the federal government uses to classify what it buys. This code was retired in the 2017 NAICS revision; it still appears on awards signed under earlier vintages, which is why historical award records reference it. The U.S. Small Business Administration sets a small-business size standard (a receipts or employee threshold) per NAICS code, used to decide who qualifies for small-business set-asides.
This page reports exact public-record facts and assigns no score or label. An obligated-dollar figure is an exact sum over USASpending.gov prime awards on the records Fonteum currently holds; it is a bounded slice of the federal corpus, not a completeness claim, and it is not a budget or forecast. Contractors are named only as the neutral recipients of public awards. The award footprint fills in as the federal award-archive backfill runs.
Reviewed by the Fonteum Government Contracts Desk. Federal procurement records analysts. This study reports exact regulatory facts — an award's signed date and an exclusion's active window, each sourced to SAM.gov and USASpending.gov. It makes no determination of wrongdoing and assigns no score.
Sources: USASpending.gov prime awards (U.S. Government Works, public domain) for the spending figures; U.S. Census Bureau (NAICS 2022) for the industry title; U.S. Small Business Administration for the size standard. Confirm any current figure at usaspending.gov. Canonical record: https://fonteum.com/gov/naics/541712. Industry data as of 2026-06-21.
Top 10 of 12 contractors on file, by obligated dollars. A high obligation is an exact fact, not an endorsement. Each named contractor links to its canonical federal contractor record.