SIC 3769 Space Vehicle Equipment, Not Elsewhere Classified

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SIC 3769

This category covers establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing guided missile and space vehicle parts and auxiliary equipment, not elsewhere classified. This industry also includes establishments owned by manufacturers of guided missile and space vehicle parts and auxiliary equipment, not elsewhere classified, and primarily engaged in research and development on such products, whether from enterprise funds or on a contract or fee basis. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing navigational and guidance systems are classified in SIC 3812: Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical Systems and Instruments. Research and development on guided missile and space vehicle parts, on a contract or fee basis by establishments not owned by manufacturers of such products, are classified in SIC 8731: Commercial Physical and Biological Research.

NAICS CODE(S)

336419

Other Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing

Products manufactured by this industry are mostly airframe assemblies for guided missiles, castings for missiles and missile components, nose cones for guided missiles, and space capsules for space vehicles.

According to the Annual Survey of Manufactures, the value of product shipments for guided missile and space vehicle parts and auxiliary equipment was decreasing every year. Shipments for 1998 were valued at $1.09 billion, shipments for 1999 were valued at $903.8 million, shipments for 2000 were valued at $839.7 million, and in 2001 shipments were valued at $796.1 million.

According to the 1997 Economic Census, the value of product shipments for guided missile and space vehicle parts and auxiliary equipment fell by approximately 48 percent between 1992 and 1997. The sector of the industry showing the biggest decline was production for U.S. government military customers—not including manufacture of airframes and space capsules. Shipment values in 1997 were just 33 percent higher than 1992 levels. Nonetheless, the industry saw slight gains in shipments to nonmilitary government customers and commercial customers—between 1992 and 1997, those sectors combined jumped 36 percent.

In 2001, there were 38 firms operating 41 establishments in the industry. This number also had been decreasing each year. Nearly all of the companies were quite small, with more than 84 percent employing fewer than 100 workers.

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