# Findbucks Federal Contract Awards: Defense Electronics (`findbucks.ai/federal-awards-defense-electronics`) Actor

Daily feed of federal contract awards in defense electronics from USAspending.gov: recipient, amount, awarding agency, start date, and award link. Keywords preset for defense electronics, radar, and avionics; change them for any niche. Official federal data only. Pay per result.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/findbucks.ai/federal-awards-defense-electronics.md
- **Developed by:** [Paul Upchurch](https://apify.com/findbucks.ai) (community)
- **Categories:**
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $15.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Findbucks Federal Contract Awards: Defense Electronics

A daily feed of federal contract awards in defense electronics: recipient, amount, agency, and award link.

### Who uses it

- Subcontractors and suppliers who sell to prime contractors
- Government-contracting business-development teams
- Investors and analysts tracking federal spending in the niche

### What you get

One record per event: entity, event, date, detail, source URL, and the matched term. Clean JSON or CSV, ready for a spreadsheet, a CRM, or an alert.

### Input

- **phrases**: the terms to match. Preset for defense electronics; change them freely for any niche.
- **days**: look-back window. Default 30.
- **contact**: sent as the User-Agent on every request, as the SEC asks.

### Data source and ethics

USAspending.gov award data (the official federal spending source). Each record links to the award. Real contact User-Agent, a polite request rate, no personal data, and no scraping against any site terms.

### Pricing

Pay per result. You pay only for the records returned.

# Actor input Schema

## `days` (type: `integer`):

How many days back to search.

## `phrases` (type: `array`):

Keywords matched against federal award descriptions. Preset for this niche; change freely.

## `contact` (type: `string`):

Your name and email, sent as the User-Agent on every request, as the SEC asks.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "days": 30,
  "phrases": [
    "defense electronics",
    "radar",
    "avionics"
  ],
  "contact": "Paul Upchurch, Paul Upchurch & Co, LLC, pjupchurch@fastmail.com"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("findbucks.ai/federal-awards-defense-electronics").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("findbucks.ai/federal-awards-defense-electronics").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call findbucks.ai/federal-awards-defense-electronics --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,findbucks.ai/federal-awards-defense-electronics"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/dtxnoBx5BgVvXIPu6/builds/j6eKKArKScflZGova/openapi.json