tensorust/dfars-foci-flags-sample

Defense Contractor FOCI Flags: free sample (Tensorust LLC)

8,660 DoD contractors with a $5M+ award, graded for public signs of foreign ownership, control or influence.

Headline: The proposed DFARS FOCI rule (DFARS Case 2021-D011) would make every contractor with a DoD award above $5 million disclose its beneficial owners on an SF 328, and DoD has no public list of who that reaches or who carries foreign ties.

This repository is a free teaser, not the dataset. It holds 25 example rows and a summary table with no names in it. The full file has 8,660 rows and is sold by Tensorust LLC: https://tensorust.com/datasets/dfars-foci-flags/.

Files here

file	what it is
sample.csv	25 rows of the full file (the same sample shown on tensorust.com)
summary_by_state.csv	row counts and totals by state across the full file, no entity names (groups with fewer than 3 rows are folded into "Other")

Summary by state (largest groups)

State	rows	Obligated (USD)
VA	1,517	195,817,680,817
CA	755	102,074,083,500
MD	555	49,046,016,783
TX	481	169,044,129,514
FL	460	69,733,136,298
(blank)	432	37,322,989,113
AK	319	13,237,457,684
AL	263	38,255,799,518
NY	225	31,101,072,623
CO	217	33,994,416,322
PA	203	62,124,532,372
OH	203	18,982,848,129
TOTAL	8,660	1,369,422,467,269

Full table: summary_by_state.csv.

What the full file has

• 8,660 rows
• Key fields: recipient_uei, recipient_name, city, state, recipient_country, parent_uei, parent_name, parent_country, parent_city, foci_level
• Parquet and CSV, a README with sources, method and limits, and the build script
• Free 25-row sample (no personal contact data)

Coverage: DoD prime contractors with an award above $5M current value and FY2024 to FY2026 activity: 457 strong, 110 possible, 457 foreign affiliates only, 7,636 none found. USAspending pulled Nov 5 2026; built Nov 6 2026.

Columns in the full file

column	meaning
recipient_uei	SAM.gov UEI and recipient as reported in USAspending
recipient_name	SAM.gov UEI and recipient as reported in USAspending
city	SAM.gov UEI and recipient as reported in USAspending
state	SAM.gov UEI and recipient as reported in USAspending
recipient_country	SAM.gov UEI and recipient as reported in USAspending
parent_uei	Parent of record and the parent's own location when the parent is a federal award recipient
parent_name	Parent of record and the parent's own location when the parent is a federal award recipient
parent_country	Parent of record and the parent's own location when the parent is a federal award recipient
parent_city	Parent of record and the parent's own location when the parent is a federal award recipient
foci_level	strong (parent or recipient located outside the US), possible (parent name has a non-US legal form), foreign affiliates only (context, not FOCI by itself), none found
foci_signals	Each signal found
foreign_affiliates_in_family	Other award recipients with the same parent UEI located outside the US
foreign_affiliate_examples	Other award recipients with the same parent UEI located outside the US
total_obligated	DoD obligations FY2024 to FY2026, net
obligated_fy2024	DoD obligations FY2024, net
obligated_fy2025	DoD obligations FY2025, net
obligated_fy2026	DoD obligations FY2026 to date, net
n_awards	Award counts and size
n_awards_current_value_over_5m	Award counts and size
largest_award_current_value	Award counts and size
top_naics	Main NAICS
top_naics_description	Main NAICS
last_action_date	Latest action
ontology_org_id	Tensorust Ontology Organization

Get the full file

tier	price	includes
Agency or NAICS slice	$1,500	Every contractor in up to 5 NAICS codes or one DoD component, with FOCI grade, signals, parent of record and DoD dollars by fiscal year. CSV and Excel.
National FOCI file	$6,500	All 8,660 contractors with grades, signals and affiliate examples, plus one refresh after the final DFARS rule publishes.
Yearly license with quarterly refresh	$15,000 a year	The national file refreshed each quarter from USAspending, with new $5M+ awardees and changed parents flagged. Internal use across security, contracts and supplier-risk teams.

Email mattbusel@tensorust.com with the tier and a billing contact, and we will send a proper invoice (ACH or card). The file is delivered once the invoice is paid. Details and the live sample: https://tensorust.com/datasets/dfars-foci-flags/. All datasets: https://tensorust.com/datasets/

Method and limits

Start from DoD recipients with any award whose current total value exceeds $5M. Look up the parent UEI's own location among all federal award recipients. Flag non-US legal forms in parent names when the parent's location is unknown. Count foreign-located recipients sharing the same parent UEI. Grade strong, possible, foreign affiliates only, none found. Join to the Tensorust ontology on UEI.

Not a DCSA FOCI determination or facility clearance status. Not complete ownership: SAM.gov parent data shows only the self-reported immediate and highest-level owner, so minority foreign stakes are invisible. Foreign subsidiaries of a US contractor do not by themselves create FOCI; they are shown as context. No contact data, no compliance advice.

Sources

• USAspending.gov prime award transactions, DoD FY2024 to FY2026 and all agencies FY2025, bulk download pulled Nov 5 2026: https://www.usaspending.gov/download_center/custom_award_data
• DFARS Case 2021-D011 (FOCI disclosure, proposed): https://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/dars/case_status.html
• Tensorust Ontology DFARS-FOCI rule obligations and SUBSIDIARY_OF links

License

The sample and summary here are free to view, analyze and cite with attribution to "Tensorust LLC, https://tensorust.com/datasets/dfars-foci-flags/". The full dataset is licensed separately per tier. No resale or redistribution of Tensorust data without a written license.

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