I recently had an organization looking more closely at the Aerospace & Defense market, which raised a deceptively simple question:
Which NAICS and PSC codes should you actually be using to define the market?
The answer isn’t always straightforward, especially when we are not looking at specific keywords and looking at the industry as a whole.
Aerospace alone can span aircraft and parts manufacturing, engines and propulsion, missiles and space vehicles, R&D, and support activities. Defense is even broader—there is no single “defense” NAICS code. Depending on what you are trying to understand, the market can include weapons, combat vehicles, C4ISR, engineering, R&D, sustainment, and other products and services.
So I put together this Aerospace & Defense NAICS/PSC Reference as a starting point for market intelligence and federal spending analysis, using MakeGov's MCP.
FedConsults Aerospace & Defense NAICS PSC Reference
It’s also a good reminder that how you define your market determines what your data tells you. Start with the wrong—or incomplete—set of codes, and you can easily miss a significant portion of the market you are trying to analyze.
For me, this is always the first step in good federal market intelligence: define the market before you analyze the market.
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