USAspending.gov Federal Awards Tracker 🇺🇸

Track who won US federal government money — contracts and grants — with amounts, agencies and dates, straight from the official USAspending.gov API. No API key required.

Every dollar the US federal government awards is published on USAspending.gov. This Actor searches those awards by keyword, recipient, agency, industry, state, amount and date range, and returns clean, structured records — who got the money, how much, from which agency, for what.

This is the complement to SAM.gov: SAM lists opportunities to bid on; USAspending shows the awards that were actually made. Official open API — clean liability profile.

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What you can do with it

• 💰 See who won — track contract and grant awards to any company or sector.
• 🕵️ Competitor intelligence — which competitors are winning federal work, and how much.
• 🎯 Sales targeting — find well-funded recipients and the agencies that buy.
• 📊 Market research — spending by agency, industry (NAICS/PSC), state and time.
• 📈 Trend analysis — feed a dashboard of federal awards over time.

Features

• ✅ No API key — works out of the box.
• ✅ Contracts and grants — pick the award category; fields adapt automatically.
• ✅ Powerful filters — keyword, recipient, agency, NAICS/PSC, state, amount range, dates.
• ✅ Clean output — recipient, amount, agency, sub-agency, type, dates, direct USAspending link.
• ✅ Low-maintenance — official REST API with automatic retries.

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Input

Field	Description
Award category	Contracts or Grants / financial assistance.
Keywords	Free-text over recipient + description.
Recipient name	e.g. Lockheed Martin.
Awarding agency	e.g. Department of Defense.
NAICS / PSC codes	Industry / product-service codes (contracts).
Place of performance state	e.g. CA, TX, VA.
Min / Max award amount	USD amount range.
Lookback days or Date from/to	Time window (by action date).
Max results	Cap the number of awards.

Example — big DoD cybersecurity contracts, last 2 years

{
  "awardCategory": "contracts",
  "keywords": "cybersecurity",
  "awardingAgency": "Department of Defense",
  "minAmount": 1000000,
  "daysBack": 730,
  "maxResults": 500
}

Example — grants a recipient received

{
  "awardCategory": "grants",
  "recipientName": "Johns Hopkins University",
  "daysBack": 365
}

Output

Each row is one award:

{
  "award_id": "HT940216C0001",
  "recipient_name": "HUMANA GOVERNMENT BUSINESS INC",
  "award_amount": 51269205263.03,
  "awarding_agency": "Department of Defense",
  "awarding_sub_agency": "Defense Health Agency",
  "award_type": "DEFINITIVE CONTRACT",
  "start_date": "2016-08-01",
  "end_date": "2025-12-31",
  "description": "IGF::OT::IGF",
  "place_of_performance_state": "KY",
  "naics_code": "524114",
  "naics_description": "DIRECT HEALTH AND MEDICAL INSURANCE CARRIERS",
  "psc_code": "Q201",
  "psc_description": "MEDICAL- MANAGED HEALTHCARE",
  "assistance_listing": "",
  "recipient_id": "1068e466-707d-6b6f-367f-0255fab79b8c-C",
  "award_url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HT940216C0001"
}

Run it on a schedule

Schedule the Actor to capture new awards in your sector, and connect a Slack / email / webhook / Google Sheets integration to route them into your CRM or intelligence dashboard.

Notes & limitations

• Uses the official USAspending.gov open API — no key needed.
• Each search can page through the first ~10,000 awards (API cap); narrow with filters for larger populations.
• Contracts and grants expose slightly different fields (NAICS/PSC for contracts, Assistance Listing for grants).
• This is factual public spending data.

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