Financial 

System(s)

Awards 

System(s)

Award Linkage

FPDS

(A)

Appropriations

Account

(B) 

Object Class 

and Program 

Activity

(C) 

Award 

Financial

FSRS

(D1) Award and Awardee Attributes

(Procurement)

(D2) Award and Awardee Attributes

(Financial Assistance)

(E) Additional Awardee Attributes

Award and Awardee Attributes

(F) Sub-award Attributes

Field-level validations for A, B, and C

Agency-Published File A/B/C Data (see note 4)

Monthly Reporting – DATA Act Broker Submission (DABS) Daily/Twice-Monthly Reporting - FFATA

USAspending.gov Public Website and Database (see note 6)

Agencies

Agency Uploaded Data (see note 1) Broker Extracted Data

Data Broker 

Defined in the Reporting Submission 

Specification (RSS) Defined in the Interface Definition Document (IDD) 

In accordance with SF 133/OMB Circular A-11/USSGL

Award, 

Sub-award, 

and 

Awardee 

Attributes

(see note 2)

SAM

(Highly

Compensated

Officer Data)

FPDS 

format; 

Prime Recipients Daily

Daily

Daily DATA Act 

format;

Daily

Monthly

Note 1: Quarterly reporting began for all agencies in FY17Q2, monthly reporting started for only those agencies receiving COVID-19 supplemental funding in FY20 P07 and subsequently expanded to all agencies beginning FY22 P02.

Note 2: D1 and D2 pull in all award data associated with the funding or awarding agency and action dates as specified by the agency. E pulls in highly-compensated officer information for UEI that appear in an agency’s D1 and D2. F pulls in all sub-award 

data associated with the awards that appear in an agency’s D1 and D2.

Note 3: Per OMB M-20-21, agencies should report non-loan financial assistance (including aggregates) to FABS at least twice a month (appropriately spacing apart the reporting dates), in each case reporting all issued-but-yet-to-be-reported awards. Issuedbut-yet-to-be-reported loans can continue to be reported on a monthly cadence; refer to the Practices & Procedures Section 2.1.1 for more information.

Note 4: File A, B, and C data directly flow to USAspending.gov when a monthly DABS submission is published, but that the data contained in Files D1 (FPDS), D2 (FABS), E (SAM), and F (FSRS) is already reflected in USAspending.gov at the time of monthly 

publication (as seen on the right half of the chart) and is not changed on USAspending by the monthly publication per se. That said, the packaging of File D1/D2/E/F is important for cross-file validation and SAO attestation/certification and often 

leads to corrections to File C or the source systems for data in D1/D2/E/F (and any corrections to source system data do flow to the website). Monthly DABS publication is in accordance with the Broker attestation statement; quarterly DABS 

certification by SAOs is in accordance with the Broker certification statement. Quarterly SAO certification does not update agency File A/B/C data per se, unless an agency chooses to correct that data at that time.

Note 5: To see information on the data sources used by the Broker for validation purposes, see Appendix F of the P&P (Practices and Procedures)

Note 6: FABS data and Monthly File A/B/C data are reflected on the USAspending website the day after they are published in the Broker, after the conclusion of the nightly Broker -> USAspending data pipeline; this includes any off-cycle corrections for 

monthly File A/B/C data. SAM data, FSRS data, and FPDS data are reflected 2 days after they are finalized in those source systems; an extra day is needed because those systems don’t make data available for ingest until the day after it’s finalized.

Cross-file validation for A to D

Financial

Assistance

Broker

Submission

(FABS)

At least

twice

monthly 

(see note 3)

Daily

Field-level 

validations

GSDM Version 1.0

SubAwards

Prime

Grants

External Data Sets

Defined in the Consumption 

Focused Metadata (CFM) 

Daily

Prime

Contracts

Daily

Daily

Monthly