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The Government API turns a resolved entity into its US federal footprint — what the federal government pays it — on the same entity spine used across the rest of the API. Federal awards are a first-party, public-domain source, keyed to the spine so an entity search returns its award timeline fused to the live Events / Stories / Entities / Facilities graph: Because recipients resolve to spine entity_ids, government spending joins the graph: from one entity you can pivot to its federal awards, then to the facilities it owns and the events near them. That fused path is the join a standalone procurement viewer can’t offer.
The Government endpoints are plan-gated — they require the can_use_gov entitlement, included on the Markets plan and up. Plans without it receive a clean 403 PLAN_REQUIRED.
D&B carve-out. USAspending recipient records are keyed on the SAM.gov UEI only. Dun & Bradstreet’s DUNS number and the D&B corporate-family (parent) tree are proprietary and are never ingested or surfaced by this API — you get the public-domain award facts and the UEI, not the licensed D&B graph.

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Federal Awards

GET /api/v2/gov/awards — USAspending prime awards for an entity. Look a subject up by a resolved entity id, a SAM.gov uei, or a fuzzy recipient name (at least one required). Returns an aggregate summary (total obligated ,award+recipientcounts),aper−UEI‘recipientrollups‘breakdown(top25byobligated, award + recipient counts), a per-UEI `recipient_rollups` breakdown (top 25 by obligated , each with its awarding agencies and first/last action date), and the recent awards timeline — every row cited to its USAspending permalink.
The federal-awards surface is also on the MCP server as the gov category tool gov_awards (progressive discovery) — see MCP → GDELT Cloud tools, inheriting the same can_use_gov gate. Federal award data is US public domain (USAspending.gov).

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Foreign Agents (FARA)

GET /api/v2/gov/fara — the US foreign-influence graph. DOJ FARA registrations link a US registrant (a law / lobbying / PR firm) to the foreign principal it represents, both resolved to the entity spine. Filter by a resolved entity (matches either side of the link), a fuzzy registrant or foreign_principal name, or a country. The differentiator is the sanctions cross: sanctioned_only=true returns only links whose foreign principal is on one of our screening lists (OFAC SDN, BIS Entity List, DoD 1260H, OFAC CMIC, UK) — with the specific fp_sanction_lists + fp_sanction_programs — so you see US firms registered as agents for a sanctioned entity, not merely for an adversary country.
Also on the MCP server as gov_fara (the gov category). FARA is US public domain (DOJ NSD FARA eFile); one row per (US registrant, foreign principal) link.

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Regulatory enforcement — in development

An EPA ECHO enforcement surface (facility-level violations, penalties, and non-compliance for an operator, geo-matched to the facilities directory) is in active development and available to admins in preview. It isn’t yet exposed for general use: attributing enforcement to the right operator at breadth requires geo-confirmation against the operator’s mapped facilities, which we’re expanding before we serve it. It will land here once that precision bar is met — so an operator search returns enforcement that is provably its own, not a name-match.