US Federal Spending Monitor - Contracts & Grants to JSON
Pricing
Pay per usage
US Federal Spending Monitor - Contracts & Grants to JSON
Search & monitor US federal contracts & grants via the official USAspending.gov API. Filter by keyword, type, agency and date; clean structured records with direct links.
US Federal Spending Monitor — Contracts & Grants → JSON (with stock tickers)
Search and monitor US federal awards (contracts & grants) straight from the official USAspending.gov API. No browser, no proxy, no scraping tricks — a public government API, so it's fast, reliable, and fully legal.
What makes this different: investable-entity mapping
Raw award data is free and public. The value is in the processing layer. This actor maps each award recipient to its public-company stock ticker + SEC CIK (via SEC's official company list), so the output is ready for:
- Alternative-data / signal research — companies winning large federal contracts often move before the news. Join awards to tickers instantly.
- Watchlists & screeners — filter awards down to publicly-traded recipients.
- Portfolio surveillance — monitor government revenue exposure of holdings.
Mapping is conservative (a wrong ticker is worse than none): exact normalized
name match, a safe prefix rule for subsidiaries (e.g. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
→ LMT), and a small alias table for renames (e.g. Raytheon → RTX). Unmatched
recipients return ticker: null. Turn it off with mapTickers: false.
Input
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
keywords | Terms matched against award text (e.g. ["artificial intelligence"]) |
awardCategory | contracts, grants, or both |
startDate / endDate | Award action date window (YYYY-MM-DD) |
maxResults | Max awards to return (≤ 10000) |
mapTickers | Add ticker + CIK for matched recipients (default true) |
Output (one item per award)
{"awardId": "HQ014717C0032","recipient": "LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION","ticker": "LMT","cik": 936468,"amount": 9080516982.62,"description": "THAAD INTERCEPTOR LOT 9 PRODUCTION ...","awardingAgency": "Department of Defense","awardingSubAgency": "Missile Defense Agency","startDate": "2017-03-27","endDate": "2028-11-30","placeOfPerformanceState": "TX","url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HQ014717C0032_..."}
Pricing
Pay-per-result (PPE): you're billed per award record returned. Run it on a schedule to keep a fresh, ticker-mapped feed of new federal awards.
Legal & data notes
All data comes from the official USAspending.gov API (public award records, no
personal data). Ticker/CIK mapping uses SEC's public company_tickers.json.
This is public-record data, not MNPI.