Federal Contract Momentum: Gov Awards + Insider Buying

Find public companies that are winning accelerating federal contract dollars at the same moment their own insiders are buying the stock on the open market. Either signal alone is partial. A surge in federal awards says demand is real and funded; insiders buying says the people closest to the books are putting their own cash in. The edge is the overlap, and this pipeline scores it per company on a 0 to 100 scale.

What it does

For each ticker you provide, the pipeline joins two independent public sources:

1. Federal contract momentum from USAspending.gov, the official source of US federal award data. For each recipient name it measures new awards (signed inside the recent window) against an equal prior window, so you see whether the company is accelerating, not just how large its backlog is.
2. Insider open-market buying from SEC Form 4 (transaction code P), via the sec-form4-insider-tracker actor. Open-market purchases are the conviction signal; grants, option exercises, and tax withholding are filtered out.

It then scores convergence and tiers every company:

Tier	Meaning
converging	Accelerating federal awards and insider open-market buying. The premium signal.
contract_only	New federal award momentum, no insider buying.
insider_only	Insider open-market buying, no contract momentum.
watch	Neither leg clears its threshold.

Output

One row per company:

{
  "ticker": "LDOS",
  "company": "Leidos",
  "tier": "converging",
  "convergenceScore": 78,
  "scoreBreakdown": { "contracts": 45, "insider": 21, "velocity": 12 },
  "contracts": {
    "recipientsSearched": ["LEIDOS"],
    "windowDays": 90,
    "recentNewAwardCount": 7,
    "recentNewAwardValueUsd": 142000000,
    "priorNewAwardCount": 3,
    "priorNewAwardValueUsd": 41000000,
    "growthRatio": 3.46,
    "newEntrantSurge": false,
    "lastNewAwardDate": "2026-06-02",
    "topNewAwards": [
      { "awardId": "...", "recipient": "LEIDOS, INC.", "agency": "Department of Defense", "amountUsd": 88000000, "startDate": "2026-05-19" }
    ]
  },
  "insider": {
    "lookbackDays": 90,
    "buyCount": 2,
    "sellCount": 0,
    "buyValueUsd": 310000,
    "netValueUsd": 310000,
    "netBuying": true,
    "lastBuyDate": "2026-05-28",
    "topBuys": [ { "insider": "...", "role": "Director", "shares": 1500, "price": 140.2, "valueUsd": 210300, "date": "2026-05-28" } ]
  },
  "scoredAt": "2026-06-11T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Input

Field	Default	Notes
tickers	["LDOS","LMT","BAH"]	Public contractors to scan.
recipientNames	map	Ticker to USAspending recipient name(s). USAspending lists legal entity names that often differ from the brand, so set this for accurate matching.
companyNames	map	Ticker to a readable name for labeling.
recentWindowDays	90	Recent award window; momentum compares it against an equal prior window.
insiderLookbackDays	90	Form 4 lookback.
minNewAwardValueUsd	1000000	New award dollars required to count as contract momentum.
includeContracts / includeInsider	true	Turn either leg off to score on the other alone.
minScore	0	Drop and never charge companies below this score.

Pricing

Pay per result, by tier:

Event	Price
Converging company	$0.12 (first one per run free)
Single-signal company (contract_only or insider_only)	$0.06
Watch company	$0.02

Combined cost note. This pipeline calls the sec-form4-insider-tracker actor, which also charges its own small per-event fee (one charge per insider transaction it returns) directly to you. USAspending is queried inline with no extra actor and no proxy. A typical run of a handful of tickers costs a few cents plus the Form 4 transactions found.

Why the data is trustworthy

Both sources are official and public: USAspending is the federal government's own award database, and Form 4 filings come straight from SEC EDGAR. No API keys, no logins, no scraped HTML, no residential proxy. The recipient name search is fuzzy by design, so set recipientNames precisely when a company files under a legal entity name that differs from its ticker brand.