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us-federal-awards-usaspending-dataset

award_category large_stringclasses 2 values	fiscal_year int32 2.01k 2.03k	awarding_agency_code large_stringclasses 94 values	awarding_agency_name large_stringclasses 94 values	awarding_sub_agency_code large_stringclasses 331 values	awarding_sub_agency_name large_stringclasses 310 values	total_obligation float64 -1,764,575,138.37 1,869B	transaction_count int64 1 15.8M	award_count int64 1 15M	recipient_count int64 0 81.2k
contract	2,008	097	Department of Defense	97AT	Defense Security Cooperation Agency	48,329,035.26	687	448	225
contract	2,008	097	Department of Defense	5700	Department of the Air Force	63,650,190,478.25008	167,051	96,990	20,565
contract	2,008	097	Department of Defense	97AK	Defense Information Systems Agency	3,890,774,561.079999	22,234	12,883	1,597
contract	2,008	047	General Services Administration	4730	Federal Acquisition Service	2,404,702,393.900055	752,040	727,671	8,131
contract	2,008	014	Department of the Interior	1425	Bureau of Reclamation	382,564,903.83	7,535	5,797	2,460
contract	2,008	036	Department of Veterans Affairs	3600	Department of Veterans Affairs	14,919,739,449.947748	1,295,822	1,288,043	39,600
contract	2,008	012	Department of Agriculture	12K3	Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service	163,203,421.41	4,987	3,805	1,761
contract	2,008	013	Department of Commerce	1330	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	1,007,972,836.95	16,355	11,977	5,150
contract	2,008	013	Department of Commerce	1301	Office of the Secretary	81,415,587.47	914	450	234
contract	2,008	070	Department of Homeland Security	7015	Federal Law Enforcement Training Center	229,209,050.26	3,443	2,327	901
contract	2,008	097	Department of Defense	97AS	Defense Logistics Agency	35,718,777,176.21988	569,923	554,598	10,917
contract	2,008	097	Department of Defense	9761	Defense Threat Reduction Agency	971,146,821.8	2,159	1,089	513
contract	2,008	075	Department of Health and Human Services	7530	Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services	2,784,308,205.4	2,424	1,379	550
contract	2,008	015	Department of Justice	1540	Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons	1,967,645,050.549995	73,234	63,404	7,268
contract	2,008	019	Department of State	1900	Department of State	6,307,754,437.300023	58,813	50,385	5,672
contract	2,008	485	Corporation for National and Community Service	9577	Corporation for National and Community Service	49,335,665.42	526	344	216
contract	2,008	075	Department of Health and Human Services	7570	Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration	978,870,661.850001	5,241	3,995	1,561
contract	2,008	1602	Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation	1665	Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation	266,458,121.4	1,186	616	372
contract	2,008	086	Department of Housing and Urban Development	8600	Department of Housing and Urban Development	982,676,769.53	4,909	3,406	1,270
contract	2,008	012	Department of Agriculture	12E3	Rural Housing Service	51,521,421.86	7,502	7,262	1,403
contract	2,008	020	Department of the Treasury	2050	Internal Revenue Service	1,652,831,870.350004	18,942	10,781	3,067
contract	2,008	015	Department of Justice	1524	Drug Enforcement Administration	447,642,792.05	19,405	11,216	2,390
contract	2,008	020	Department of the Treasury	2033	Financial Management Service	124,335,591.45	1,317	805	425
contract	2,008	097	Department of Defense	97JC	Missile Defense Agency	5,760,262,872.17	2,923	830	364
contract	2,008	047	General Services Administration	4735	Federal Acquisition Service	3,658,408,411.819999	10,749	5,611	1,569
contract	2,008	047	General Services Administration	4740	Public Buildings Service	7,140,094,666.609962	148,797	129,629	12,966
contract	2,008	069	Department of Transportation	6953	Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration	67,528,837.17	392	186	97
contract	2,008	069	Department of Transportation	6947	Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation	3,061,551.94	442	431	169
contract	2,008	070	Department of Homeland Security	7013	Transportation Security Administration	1,733,117,381.55	3,262	1,924	802
contract	2,008	070	Department of Homeland Security	7022	Federal Emergency Management Agency	1,837,204,650.280003	10,191	6,723	2,723
contract	2,008	070	Department of Homeland Security	7009	U.S. Secret Service	139,015,676	2,534	1,843	1,091
contract	2,008	514	U.S. Agency for Global Media	9568	U.S. Agency for Global Media	33,794,572.22	2,792	1,329	611
contract	2,008	097	Department of Defense	97F1	Defense Media Activity	79,968,822.1	1,151	912	311
contract	2,008	097	Department of Defense	9776	USTRANSCOM	4,298,055,848.800003	6,176	3,217	248
contract	2,008	097	Department of Defense	97HW	Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences	56,504,984.02	1,268	962	437
contract	2,008	024	Office of Personnel Management	2400	Office of Personnel Management	1,113,339,883.06	11,373	9,631	558
contract	2,008	020	Department of the Treasury	2036	Bureau of the Fiscal Service	238,271,008.68	13,051	10,025	1,343
contract	2,008	015	Department of Justice	1544	U.S. Marshals Service	429,803,073.9	2,757	1,749	250
contract	2,008	029	Federal Trade Commission	2900	Federal Trade Commission	53,858,253.57	959	646	327
contract	2,008	045	Equal Employment Opportunity Commission	4500	Equal Employment Opportunity Commission	45,034,387.03	1,437	1,056	600
contract	2,008	420	National Labor Relations Board	6300	National Labor Relations Board	40,649,179.79	431	225	132
contract	2,008	014	Department of the Interior	1434	U.S. Geological Survey	254,104,192.45	8,579	6,360	2,897
contract	2,008	075	Department of Health and Human Services	7505	Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response	461,724,262.84	151	86	52
contract	2,008	069	Department of Transportation	6940	National Highway Traffic Safety Administration	133,220,547.58	966	685	295
contract	2,008	060	Railroad Retirement Board	6000	Railroad Retirement Board	9,549,826.11	428	214	124
contract	2,008	013	Department of Commerce	1323	U.S. Census Bureau	691,146,360.430001	2,269	1,654	694
contract	2,008	014	Department of the Interior	1443	National Park Service	657,073,533.54	18,163	14,616	5,856
contract	2,008	012	Department of Agriculture	12G2	Food Safety and Inspection Service	75,342,652.16	873	641	286
contract	2,008	421	National Mediation Board	9524	National Mediation Board	1,166,169.95	117	117	77
contract	2,008	424	National Transportation Safety Board	9508	National Transportation Safety Board	18,810,560.67	383	261	168
contract	2,008	088	National Archives and Records Administration	8800	National Archives and Records Administration	210,876,716.95	1,571	1,048	573
contract	2,008	012	Department of Agriculture	12C3	Natural Resources Conservation Service	92,267,109.37	2,220	1,695	737
contract	2,008	013	Department of Commerce	1341	National Institute of Standards and Technology	233,226,270.9	4,473	3,778	1,602
contract	2,008	1601	Department of Labor	1604	Office of Inspector General	5,144,353.79	217	162	85
contract	2,008	069	Department of Transportation	6901	Immediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation	526,687,701.32	2,315	1,475	712
contract	2,008	091	Department of Education	9100	Department of Education	1,378,812,478.87	3,479	2,253	1,157
contract	2,008	020	Department of the Treasury	2022	Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau	6,170,973.89	8	1	1
contract	2,008	019	Department of State	19BM	International Boundary and Water Commission: U.S.-Mexico	270,672.02	2	1	1
contract	2,008	389	Merit Systems Protection Board	4100	Merit Systems Protection Board	3,738,137.57	118	103	76
contract	2,008	394	National Capital Planning Commission	9502	National Capital Planning Commission	840,668.35	49	43	33
contract	2,008	339	Commodity Futures Trading Commission	9507	Commodity Futures Trading Commission	31,500,768.9	335	191	119
contract	2,008	417	National Endowment for the Arts	5920	National Endowment for the Arts	1,210,757.4	31	29	24
contract	2,008	034	International Trade Commission	3400	International Trade Commission	2,969,942.32	74	35	31
contract	2,008	014	Department of the Interior	1404	Office of the Inspector General	684,920.47	47	46	32
contract	2,008	360	Federal Election Commission	9506	Federal Election Commission	8,319,771.08	659	553	264
contract	2,008	418	National Endowment for the Humanities	5940	National Endowment for the Humanities	10,017,973.79	169	120	89
contract	2,008	069	Department of Transportation	6920	Federal Aviation Administration	3,801,277,099.710001	6,711	4,578	1,818
contract	2,008	012	Department of Agriculture	12K2	Agricultural Marketing Service	990,972,029.640001	1,803	1,692	263
contract	2,008	075	Department of Health and Human Services	7555	Program Support Center	-3,642,091.57	62	59	30
contract	2,008	090	Selective Service System	9000	Selective Service System	1,787,057.2	119	119	57
contract	2,008	014	Department of the Interior	1435	Bureau of Ocean Energy Management	98,599,153.12	1,097	818	441
contract	2,008	069	Department of Transportation	6955	Federal Transit Administration	61,958,651.45	183	126	67
contract	2,008	005	Government Accountability Office	0559	GAO, Except Comptroller General	25,122,785.85	58	57	51
contract	2,008	1133	United States Trade and Development Agency	1153	United States Trade and Development Agency	5,986,239.21	135	132	86
contract	2,008	474	Institute of Museum and Library Services	5300	Institute of Museum and Library Services	1,295,726	63	51	49
contract	2,008	012	Department of Agriculture	12B0	Assistant Secretary for Departmental Management	16,777.07	4	2	1
contract	2,008	058	Federal Emergency Management Agency	5800	Federal Emergency Management Agency	0	7	5	5
contract	2,009	047	General Services Administration	4730	Federal Acquisition Service	3,049,628,453.140035	855,286	813,613	10,358
contract	2,009	097	Department of Defense	1700	Department of the Navy	95,752,889,982.91977	335,612	216,185	32,218
contract	2,009	029	Federal Trade Commission	2900	Federal Trade Commission	65,582,298.8	1,132	678	328
contract	2,009	014	Department of the Interior	1406	Departmental Offices	1,751,845,176.770001	8,712	5,760	2,172
contract	2,009	012	Department of Agriculture	12E3	Rural Housing Service	149,079,645.15	7,614	7,394	1,469
contract	2,009	089	Department of Energy	8900	Department of Energy	31,623,338,233.119995	15,571	8,434	3,410
contract	2,009	514	U.S. Agency for Global Media	9568	U.S. Agency for Global Media	70,903,533	5,491	4,058	1,012
contract	2,009	012	Department of Agriculture	12H2	Agricultural Research Service	210,847,096.2	6,954	6,103	2,584
contract	2,009	097	Department of Defense	2100	Department of the Army	132,834,305,050.27974	438,302	289,084	51,940
contract	2,009	075	Department of Health and Human Services	7527	Indian Health Service	458,692,039.41	15,977	11,687	3,331
contract	2,009	014	Department of the Interior	1425	Bureau of Reclamation	490,087,076.74	7,480	5,861	2,399
contract	2,009	097	Department of Defense	9761	Defense Threat Reduction Agency	943,398,268.08	2,346	1,249	630
contract	2,009	070	Department of Homeland Security	7015	Federal Law Enforcement Training Center	258,945,689.73	4,367	2,677	926
contract	2,009	097	Department of Defense	97AS	Defense Logistics Agency	38,025,569,514.13986	501,377	483,748	11,082
contract	2,009	075	Department of Health and Human Services	7529	National Institutes of Health	4,538,385,601.989995	31,085	22,768	4,844
contract	2,009	015	Department of Justice	1524	Drug Enforcement Administration	430,382,684.010001	16,980	10,236	2,313
contract	2,009	075	Department of Health and Human Services	7570	Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration	1,223,666,006.44	6,837	5,090	1,795
contract	2,009	015	Department of Justice	1540	Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons	2,820,540,476.110006	71,193	61,289	7,176
contract	2,009	080	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	8000	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	15,336,593,357.15	33,652	15,750	4,839
contract	2,009	075	Department of Health and Human Services	7524	Food and Drug Administration	647,629,181.51	5,346	4,503	1,745
contract	2,009	097	Department of Defense	97AZ	Defense Commissary Agency	6,288,002,624.310008	12,726	11,110	2,004
contract	2,009	019	Department of State	1900	Department of State	7,389,445,643.050011	66,958	56,540	5,879
contract	2,009	015	Department of Justice	1544	U.S. Marshals Service	638,413,455.419999	2,925	1,634	315

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US Federal Awards & Spending (USAspending)

Federal contract, grant and assistance awards from official USAspending.gov archives (FY2008–present) as analysis-ready tables with recipients, agencies, amounts and award metadata.

Part of the DataForge Open Data program — full production packages, free for academic and personal use. Canonical dataset page: https://data.zalize.com/datasets/us-federal-awards-usaspending-dataset

Package inventory (original bundles, served from CDN)

Package	Tier	Rows	Size	SHA-256
`usaspending-tier1-S-2026-08-05.zip`	S	—	1.45 GB	`a46321e8fae6e18f1645366d8c61aff6819727aadff4ed84dc166f4873e035a0`
`usaspending-tier1-M-2026-08-05.zip`	M	—	3.84 GB	`b7793cc3e33b5e5a2315b84b80899cc8b2bcc549a2999c1479e43481d08bd4cb`
`usaspending-tier1-L-2026-08-05.zip`	L	—	1.04 GB	`04e00c0cb20557e26b6c4d7a19a07c28ecdc4a0f4a4b848cd1b6f5facc7ae9ef`

All files are also served from the machine-readable open-data index: https://dl.zalize.com/open-data (per-package URL: https://dl.zalize.com/open-data/<package_id>).

Native parquet files (this repo)

Every table ships as snappy parquet under data/<tier>/ and renders in the Dataset Viewer above (one config per tier / table).

Original zip bundles (archive download)

The original production packages (csv + parquet + data dictionary + datasheet + license inside) are served from the DataForge open-data CDN (free, same license):

usaspending-tier1-S-2026-08-05.zip (1.45 GB, tier S)
usaspending-tier1-M-2026-08-05.zip (3.84 GB, tier M)
usaspending-tier1-L-2026-08-05.zip (1.04 GB, tier L)

What you get

S — Starter slice of recent award records
M — Research pack across award types and years
L — Full archive: FY2008–present award and transaction tables
FCRA prohibited-use notice included in the DATASHEET
Data dictionary, datasheet and QA report included with every package

Use cases

Government-market sizing and bid intelligence
Recipient and vendor analysis
Grant-funding landscape research
Joining awards to registries via UEI/DUNS

Source & methodology

USAspending.gov official award archives, FY2008–present

Coverage, update cadence and the full field-level data dictionary are on the dataset page: https://data.zalize.com/datasets/us-federal-awards-usaspending-dataset (DATA-DICTIONARY.md and DATASHEET.md are inside each package zip).

License

Dual license — CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required); commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license. Upstream data: public domain, official USAspending.gov archives (17 U.S.C. §105); FCRA prohibited-use notice ships in the DATASHEET

Academic / personal use: CC BY-NC 4.0 on the DataForge curated layer — attribution and a backlink to https://data.zalize.com are required.
Commercial use: requires a DataForge commercial license — contact us via the portal.
Upstream license terms continue to apply to the underlying data.

Citation

DataForge (data.zalize.com), built from official USAspending.gov archives — https://data.zalize.com/datasets/us-federal-awards-usaspending-dataset

DOI (Zenodo mirror): 10.5281/zenodo.21837786 · GitHub Release mirror: https://github.com/wookat/dataforge-pipelines/releases/tag/open-data-usaspending-awards

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("zalizedata/us-federal-awards-usaspending-dataset", "S-agency_fy", split="train")
print(ds[0])

Available configs: S-agency_fy, S-contract_awards, S-naics_fy, S-recipient_profiles, M-agency_fy, M-assistance_awards, M-cfda_fy, M-contract_awards, M-naics_fy, M-recipient_fy, M-recipient_profiles, M-state_fy, L-agency_fy, L-cfda_fy, L-naics_fy, L-recipient_fy, L-recipient_profiles, L-state_fy.

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