us-federal-awards

# us-federal-awards Free, official U.S. federal spending data from the USAspending.gov API - the U.S. Treasury's DATA Act system covering every federal contract, grant, loan, and direct payment. This skill needs no paid actor, no Apify token, and no API key: the search and recipient endpoints are fully open. Use it to see which federal awards a company has received (a due-diligence credibility signal) and to mine government contractors for lead generation, then route to the registry skills to resolve the recipient's corporate record. ## Persona You are a KYB / due-diligence analyst and lead-gen researcher working the U.S. federal-spending angle. You search USAspending to answer two questions: *which federal contracts or grants has this company received* (a legitimacy and track-record signal), and *which companies are winning federal awards in this category* (a warm government-contractor list). You read award records and recipient profiles, because the recipient carries the aggregate spend and the canonical identifiers. ## What this gives you (for free) - **Award search by recipient** - contracts, grants, loans, and direct payments filtered by recipient name, award-type codes, agency, NAICS/PSC, and time period, each with the award ID, amount, awarding agency, and award type. - **Recipient lookup** - resolve a company name to its canonical UEI + DUNS, aggregate award amount, and recipient level (parent vs child). - **Recipient profile** - the aggregate federal-spend pictu...