SBA size standard
1,050 employees
Measured by average number of employees over the last 24 months
SBA table effective March 2023
Official definition
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing guided missile and space vehicle parts and auxiliary equipment (except guided missile and space vehicle propulsion units and propulsion unit parts) and/or (2) developing and making prototypes of guided missile and space vehicle parts and auxiliary equipment.
FY2025 federal spending
The Department of Defense bought 93% of the $2.5B obligated under 336419 in FY2025.
- Contract awards
- 1,059
- Contract vehicles (IDVs)
- 132
Top buying agencies
- Department of Defense$2.3B
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$188.3M
- Department of Transportation$43.5K
FY2025 federal contract obligations, USAspending.gov
NAICS 336419 obligated $2.5 billion in FY2025 across 1,059 contract awards. The buyer list is two names long: DoD at $2.3 billion and NASA at $188 million. DOT registered a rounding error. No other federal agency bought anything meaningful in this code, which is unusual even by defense manufacturing standards.
What belongs here
Guided missile and space vehicle parts and auxiliary equipment other than propulsion units, plus prototypes of the same. Structures, separation systems, deployment mechanisms, launch support hardware, and payload adapters land here.
- Complete missiles and complete space vehicles are 336414.
- Propulsion units and propulsion unit parts are 336415.
- Guidance sets and seekers sold as instruments are 334511.
Competing in this code
This is the realistic code for a small space or missile hardware company, and the numbers show why. 336414 averaged over $40 million per award in FY2025. 336419 averaged about $2.4 million, an order of magnitude that a company with 200 employees can actually deliver against. The code had 132 IDVs alongside 1,059 awards in FY2025. Component qualification and mission assurance documentation are the gates, and both are cheaper to clear here than one tier up.
NAICS 336419 FAQ
What is the SBA size standard for NAICS 336419?
SBA sets it at 1,050 employees, counted as a 24-month average headcount across your company and every affiliate, not revenue. At or under that number you are small on NAICS 336419 solicitations and eligible for the set-asides in this code.
Which agencies buy missile and space vehicle parts under NAICS 336419?
FY2025 obligations: DoD ($2.3 billion), NASA ($188 million). Only two agencies buy in this code at scale, so a capability statement here is written for defense space and NASA program offices or it is written for nobody.
Is NAICS 336419 a better registration than 336414 for a small space hardware company?
Usually yes. 336414 is complete vehicles and averaged over $40 million per contract award in FY2025. 336419 covers parts and auxiliary equipment and averaged roughly $2.4 million. Small hardware suppliers who register as complete-vehicle manufacturers get filtered out of the searches that would have found them.
Where do launch structures and payload adapters get coded?
336419, as guided missile and space vehicle parts and auxiliary equipment. The exclusion in the code is narrow: propulsion units and propulsion unit parts move to 336415. Everything else structural or mechanical on the vehicle stays in 336419.