CivicTelemetry

Federal Spend Pulse (alpha)

CivicTelemetry is an independent observatory of U.S. federal spending patterns and institutional signals. This early alpha focuses on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within the Department of Homeland Security. You can also view the parent DHS overview.

ICE – Enforcement & Tech Spend

Latest month obligations:
$1,720,000,000
2025-11

Average pressure (12 mo): 3.6 / 5
Tracked contracts: 4

View ICE drill-down →

ICE Telemetry Signal

Latest pressure score:
5 / 5 (Very High)

Higher scores indicate more intense enforcement and spending activity over recent months.

SCALES – Constitutional Risk

Global score:
57 / 100
Amber

View SCALES dashboard →

Latest ICE Contracts in CivicTelemetry

Action Date Vendor Award Title Category Amount (USD)
2025-10-05 Clearview AI, Inc. Facial recognition services and platform access Tech $3,750,000
2025-09-10 BI2 Technologies Mobile iris biometric enrollment and verification system Tech $4,600,000
2025-04-15 Palantir Technologies Inc. Immigration Lifecycle Operating System (ImmigrationOS) Tech $29,800,000

This table shows the most recent awards in the CivicTelemetry dataset. See the ICE drill-down page for full context.

Data Downloads

These downloads reflect the current CivicTelemetry dataset for ICE. In this alpha, the values are seeded but structurally realistic. Future iterations will be driven directly from Treasury and USAspending.gov APIs with clear ingest scripts and refresh notes.

This early alpha uses seeded but structurally realistic data for ICE. Future iterations will connect directly to Treasury and USAspending.gov with transparent ingest scripts and versioned datasets.