What were the largest NASA contracts in the last 30 days?
agencies accepts common names such as NASA for the awarding agency; an empty dateFrom means the last 30 days. With the default sortBy amount, the biggest contract actions in the window come first. Each row names the recipient and its parent company, the amount, the award description, the place of performance and links to USAspending.gov.
Tool input
{
"agencies": [
"NASA"
]
}
Ask it from an AI agent (MCP)
Add the Apify MCP server with this tool to your MCP client (Claude, Cursor, VS Code, ...); it signs you in with OAuth or Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>. It works once the Actor is live on the Apify Store.
https://mcp.apify.com?tools=bosco_labs/us-federal-awards
Then ask:
Use the bosco_labs/us-federal-awards tool to answer: What were the largest NASA contracts in the last 30 days?
Call the Apify API
Runs the Actor and returns the rows in one request, billed to your Apify account ($0.004 per award row). It works once the Actor is live on the Apify Store.
curl https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/bosco_labs~us-federal-awards/run-sync-get-dataset-items \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"agencies": ["NASA"]}'
Example output
Example output from the tool's documentation (not a run of this exact question).
{
"award_id": "NNM16AA02C",
"award_type_group": "contracts",
"award_type": "DEFINITIVE CONTRACT",
"recipient_name": "AEROJET ROCKETDYNE OF DE, INC",
"recipient_uei": "JCZYYYQ7JGF5",
"parent_name": "L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC",
"ticker": "LHX",
"matched_on": "parent",
"awarding_agency": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
"action_date": "2026-10-29",
"action_amount_usd": 53422103.0,
"modification_number": "174",
"total_obligated_usd": 3438289825.36,
"total_value_usd": 4143466817.0,
"award_date_signed": "2015-11-19",
"end_date": "2029-09-30",
"description": "IGF::CT::IGF RS-25 PRODUCTION RESTART TO BE UNDERTAKEN BY THE CONTRACTOR IN SUPPORT OF PROVIDING SIX RS-25 ENGINES ...",
"naics_code": "541712",
"psc_code": "1675",
"psc_description": "SPACE VEHICLE COMPONENTS",
"performance_state": "CA",
"source_url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_NNM16AA02C_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-",
"schema_version": "1"
}