US Federal Contract Awards
Clean monthly time series of US federal contract award obligations (USD) per awarding agency (top ~20), 2008-present, from USAspending.gov - re-bucketed into calendar months and aligned per agency. A ready-to-model macro / govtech / defense-spend indicator.
- Source
- USAspending
- Licence
- Redistributable open data
- Updates
- Monthly
- Data through
- 2026-07-01
- Quality
- QC clean · 0 failures
- Format
- Apache Parquet + dictionary
Safe to train on
Built only from a named, redistributable official source under a documented open licence - not scraped web data. No copyright grey zone, no personal data. Ships machine-readable Croissant metadata (ML Commons - loads in Hugging Face / Kaggle / Google), an AI training-licence manifest documenting source, licence and provenance for your model's data governance, and a machine-readable data dictionary (drop it into an agent / RAG prompt so the model knows every column) - all inspectable before you buy.
What's included
- Monthly federal contract obligations (USD) per awarding agency, top ~20
- Calendar-month buckets; contract award types A/B/C/D (excludes grants/loans)
- Source: USAspending.gov (public domain)
Schema
| Column | Type | Description | Filled | Distinct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| zone | str | Awarding federal agency | 100.0% | 20 |
| ts | timestamp (UTC) | Month | 100.0% | 223 |
| obligations_usd | float | Contract obligations that month, USD | 100.0% | 4,460 |
| unit | str | Unit | 100.0% | 1 |
| res_min | int | Native resolution (monthly) | 100.0% | 1 |
Sample & preview
Every purchase ships as Apache Parquet with a data dictionary and the full QC report. A free sample (first rows + schema) is downloadable here - confirm fit before you buy. Source: USAspending (redistributable open data; attribution passes through - see our Licence).
Don't trust screenshots - drop the sample into your notebook right now.
import pandas as pd df = pd.read_parquet("us-federal-contract-awards_sample.parquet") df.info() # typed columns, gap-aware, ready to join⬇ Download free Parquet sample or CSV for Excel
Coverage: 20 zones
Agency for International Development · Department of Agriculture · Department of Commerce · Department of Defense · Department of Education · Department of Energy · Department of Health and Human Services · Department of Homeland Security · Department of Housing and Urban Development · Department of Justice · Department of Labor · Department of State · Department of Transportation · Department of Veterans Affairs · Department of the Interior · Department of the Treasury · Environmental Protection Agency · General Services Administration · National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Social Security Administration
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