us_federal_contract_momentum
type: Dataset
conforms to: http://mlcommons.org/croissant/1.0
title: US Federal Contract Spending Momentum (YoY) - derived Parquet
description: Year-over-year % change in monthly federal contract obligations per awarding agency - the budget-momentum signal. 12-month lag removes fiscal-year-end seasonality, isolating real acceleration/contraction in each agency's contract spend.
license: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
creator: USAspending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
publisher: ReadySet
keywords: Finance
keywords: official-data
keywords: AI-training-safe
keywords: redistributable
keywords: time-series
keywords: parquet
temporal coverage: 2009-01-01/2026-07-01
distribution: us-federal-contract-momentum.parquet
record set: us-federal-contract-momentum

us-federal-contract-momentum.parquet
type: FileObject
encoding format: application/vnd.apache.parquet

us-federal-contract-momentum
type: RecordSet
field: zone
field: ts
field: yoy_pct
field: unit
field: res_min

zone
type: Field
description: Awarding federal agency
data type: Text

ts
type: Field
description: Month
data type: DateTime

yoy_pct
type: Field
description: Year-over-year % change in monthly obligations
data type: Float

unit
type: Field
description: Unit
data type: Text

res_min
type: Field
description: Native resolution (monthly)
data type: Integer