Where does Air Traffic Control sit in the mid-pack industry band?

Air Traffic Control ranks #167 of 499 tracked industries by calendar-2024 contract dollars at $307.5M (MID · TRANS).

How did Air Traffic Control move between 2019 and 2024?

Between calendar 2019 and 2024, Air Traffic Control climbed from #170 to #167 of 499 ranked industries (DRIFT); share of tracked industry dollars went from 0.043% to 0.041%.

Where does the TRANS sector placement for Air Traffic Control come from?

Sector 48 (Transportation and Warehousing) placement uses the first two NAICS digits. Air Traffic Control ranks #8 of 29 classified industries there (NICHE), taking 1.5% of $20.1B.

USAspending.gov · NAICS 488111 · Transportation and Warehousing

Air Traffic Control

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Mid-pack NAICS industry on the industries board — code 488111 in Transportation and Warehousing.

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CY2024 awards: $307.5M
Corpus rank: #167 of 499
Award plate: MID
Sector: TRANS · NICHE

Air Traffic Control federal industry awards

Air Traffic Control sits in the mid-pack on the NAICS award board at $307.5M CY2024 (#167 of 499).

PlainFedContract attributes calendar-2024 contract dollars to NAICS 488111, not firm revenue. Stamp board: MID · TRANS. See /methodology/#naics.

Year-over-year change, 2019–2024

Across the calendar years on file, Air Traffic Control’s annual contract dollars fell from $391.3M in 2023 to $307.5M in 2024. 21.4% vs 2023 The strongest year on file is 2023 at $391.3M.

Air Traffic Control annual contract dollars, calendar 2019-2024

Calendar-year prime contract obligations by action date (award types A-D). Annual figures use the same NAICS classification basis as the CY2024 headline above.

Source: USAspending.gov spending_by_category

How Air Traffic Control sits in the mid-pack award band

$307.5M · #167 of 499 by CY2024 industry awards , mid-pack on the NAICS award board (same order as the industries listing). See methodology.

$307.5M under NAICS 488111 · #167 of 499 , MID · TRANS · NICHE · DRIFT. 2019→2024: 170→167 of 499 (0.043%→0.041% of tracked industry dollars) ; #8/29 in TRANS. Nearest ABS peer: Power, Distribution, at $311.6M (MID).

Calendar-2024 actions under NAICS 488111 count as opportunity size, not firm revenue. Sector weight is light within TRANS. Populations, lag, and NAICS/SBA rules: methodology.

Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury

Mid-scale industry peers nationwide

Cross-sector peers from the USAspending NAICS extract: nearest mid-scale calendar-2024 award dollars and nearest sector-weight share. Not recommendations.

Closest CY2024 award dollars

Power, Distribution, $311.6M
Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation $298.9M
Light Truck and Utility Vehicle Manufacturing $296.8M
All Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing $320.2M
All Other Miscellaneous Ambulatory Health Care… $292.1M
Home Centers $323.9M

Similar sector weight

Electrical Contractors 1.5% · $783.7M
Research and Development in Biotechnology 1.5% · $3.7B
Power and Communication Line and Related Struct… 1.5% · $786.3M
Rice Milling 1.5% · $169.2M
All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product 1.6% · $478.9M
Computer Facilities Management Services 1.5% · $3.6B

Disclaimer: Data from USAspending.gov public records. For informational purposes only. Industry spending amounts are aggregated from contract awards and may not reflect the most current data. Always verify with official sources.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Compiled from USAspending.gov by the PlainFedContract editorial process.

Compiled by PlainFedContract, Government Agencies Editorial Process · August 14, 2026

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