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NAICS 336414/336415/336419 is Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing — in practice it is missile-heavy, which is why Arizona and Utah rank above California on it. NASA obligations are carried separately and rank the states differently. The two overlap at an unknown scale, so a sum would double-count.","Federal figures are OBLIGATIONS RECORDED IN THE WINDOW, not the face value of the contracts they belong to. USAspending reports these as transactions, and a multi-year award contributes only the money obligated inside the window.","Launch counts and federal obligations point in different directions on purpose. California flies the most and collects the least missile money; Texas leads obligations and rarely launches. Neither leg alone is a measure of \"where the space industry is\", and the table shows them side by side rather than blending them into a score.","Both legs use the same trailing 365-day window so they are directly comparable, and because a year-to-date figure compared against full prior years manufactures a decline every January.","A launch is counted against the state of its PAD. That is where the flight happened, not necessarily where the vehicle was built, the company is headquartered, or the payload was paid for.","Only launches that have already flown are counted. Scheduled and scrubbed entries are excluded, and upcoming flights carry the scheduling precision the source claims — some are accurate to the second, others only to a month.","Place of performance is where work was recorded, which for a large prime can be an accounting location rather than a factory floor."],"sources":[{"name":"Launch Library 2 (The Space Devs)","url":"https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch"},{"name":"USAspending.gov spending_by_geography","url":"https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_geography/"}]}