01 · Product name
USAspending
Treasury's public site for U.S. federal awards.
Published by U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service.
In short
USAspending is the public spending site the Bureau of the Fiscal Service publishes. On 22 Oct 2026 the about page called it the official source of U.S. government spending data and dated FFATA to September 26, 2006, for awards of more than $25,000. Award PIID NNG17HP01C printed obligated amount $257,181,878.06 and a card of $257.2 million. The about page says the GitHub code is CC0. The GitHub API field was SPDX NOASSERTION. Corporate records is the nearest category. This is a federal award ledger, not a company register.
Product pricing strategy
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Free
USAspending printed no price for the website on 22 Oct 2026. The about page says the data may be copied, adapted, redistributed, or otherwise used for non-commercial or commercial purposes, subject to the Limitation on Permissible Use of Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. data noted on the homepage. This review did not open that Dun & Bradstreet exhibit, so the limitation is quoted as the about page's pointer and not rewritten. The same about page says the code in the public GitHub repository is under the Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain Dedication. The GitHub API the same day returned SPDX NOASSERTION, 289 stars, and pushed_at 2026-10-21T21:24:41Z. CC0 is the about page. NOASSERTION is the API field. Do not replace one with the other. Award dollars on an award page are federal amounts, not a fee for the site.
Utility and features
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The about page says the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service, provides the site so the public can see federal spending. It dates the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act to September 26, 2006, for contract, grant, loan, and other financial assistance awards of more than $25,000. It says the 2008 Government Funding Transparency Act required first-tier sub-recipient details for awards as of October 1, 2010. It dates the DATA Act, Pub. L. 113-101, to May 9, 2014. The release sentence says a two-week development sprint is followed by a two-week testing period, and that updates are published about every two weeks.
- CC0 on the about page. The about page says the public GitHub code is CC0. The GitHub API field on 22 Oct 2026 was SPDX NOASSERTION.
- NASA award exact and rounded. Obligated $257,181,878.06 is also shown as $257.2 million. Current and potential are both $298,177,085.00.
- Maine FY 2026 is a state total. The place-of-performance page says $22.2 billion obligated and $16.6 billion outlayed, from 21,283 prime awards.
The award page https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_NNG17HP01C_8000_-NONE-_-NONE- is the about page's own citation example. It is a definitive contract, PIID NNG17HP01C, status Completed, awarding agency NASA, recipient SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS, INC., 10210 GREENBELT RD STE 600, LANHAM, MD 20706-6239, district MD-04. Start date March 1, 2017. Current end and potential end May 31, 2025. Description IGF::CL::IGF SUPPORT FOR ATMOSPHERES, MODELING, AND DATA ASSIMILATION (SAMDA). The exact lines are outlayed $198,761,473.50, obligated $257,181,878.06, current award $298,177,085.00, and potential award $298,177,085.00. The summary cards round those to $198.8 million, $257.2 million, $298.2 million, and $298.2 million. The Maine FY 2026 place-of-performance page says obligations $22.2 billion from 21,283 prime awards and outlays $16.6 billion from 21,283 prime awards.
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Quote the exact dollar line and the rounded card as two presentations of the same award field.
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Cite CC0 from the about page and NOASSERTION from the GitHub API. Do not merge them.
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Use the Maine 2026 page for that fiscal year. The about page's example URL still says 2025.
Caveats
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Exact dollars and rounded cards are both on the NASA award page. Obligated amount $257,181,878.06 is the line. $257.2 million is the card. Outlayed $198,761,473.50 is the line. $198.8 million is the card. Do not treat the rounding as a second obligation. Maine's FY 2026 page says $16.6 billion outlayed from 21,283 prime awards. That state total is not an award's obligated amount.
The about page's citation example for a state profile uses https://www.usaspending.gov/state/maine/2025. The page captured here is /state/maine/2026. The year in the example is not the fiscal year of the screenshot. Corporate records is only the nearest category. USAspending is a federal award ledger. A recipient name on an award is the page's recipient field, not a company-registry filing. The GitHub description is Web application for U.S. federal spending data. The README's Node.js 24.18.1 line is a development setup, not a license.
Screenshots
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Potential use cases
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- The NASA award is about to be cited from the rounded card alone. On 22 Oct 2026 the page for PIID NNG17HP01C printed obligated amount $257,181,878.06 and a summary card of $257.2 million. Outlayed amount $198,761,473.50 is the line. $198.8 million is the card. Current and potential award amounts are both $298,177,085.00. Quote the line and the card as two presentations.
- Maine's outlay is about to be read as one award. The FY 2026 place-of-performance page says obligations of $22.2 billion and outlays of $16.6 billion, each from 21,283 prime awards. The about page's own state-profile example still uses /state/maine/2025. The captured page is /state/maine/2026. Those are different URLs.
- The license is about to be cleaned up. The about page says the public GitHub code is CC0. The GitHub API on 22 Oct 2026 returned SPDX NOASSERTION, 289 stars, and a push at 2026-10-21T21:24:41Z. CC0 stays the about page. NOASSERTION stays the field. The data-reuse sentence is subject to the Dun & Bradstreet limitation noted on the homepage. That exhibit was not opened.
Hard cases
The case where the first result is easy to over-read.
The rounded card replaces the cents
Obligated amount $257,181,878.06 and the card $257.2 million are the same field on PIID NNG17HP01C. Replacing the cents with the card, or adding them, invents a second obligation. Cite both, and say the card is the page's rounding.
Practitioners using it
Posts on X from people describing a concrete use. The quote is the post. Likes and reposts are the counts saved with it, not a live total. A label marks a creator, a maintainer, a vendor, a partner, a data partner, or an investor.
Spire ( $SPIR ) and its Sept 18 NOAA task order for GNSS radio occultation data: Announced by Spire: 33.2 million dollars, with surge options on top Obligated so far on USAspending: 16.6 million The announced number is a ceiling. The obligated number is what's funded today.
Questions
Is USAspending free?
The site printed no price on 22 Oct 2026. The about page says the data may be reused for commercial or non-commercial purposes, subject to the Dun & Bradstreet limitation noted on the homepage. The about page says the GitHub code is CC0. The API license field was NOASSERTION.
Why is a spending site under corporate records?
Corporate records is the nearest category in this directory. USAspending is a federal award ledger. It is not a company register. SEC EDGAR and Companies House are the register pages.
Citations
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Titled sources. These public pages are what the quotes on this listing come from.
Product
USAspending homepage
https://www.usaspending.gov/Documentation
USAspending about
https://www.usaspending.gov/aboutDocumentation
USAspending website repository
https://github.com/fedspendingtransparency/usaspending-website