What changed in SAM.gov federal assistance listings starting October 2025?

According to SAM.gov, the October 2025 updates applied to assistance listings in SAM.gov under the Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency Act of 2019 and OMB Memorandum M-24-11. The first change users would notice was a label update from “Federal Assistance Number” to “Federal Assistance ID,” because the identifier now includes alphanumeric characters, such as “31.123” changing to “31.A1A.” SAM.gov also said users would begin to see greater depth of data specificity in assistance listing records to improve transparency across the lifecycle of assistance programs and to support business analysis for researching possible opportunities. The agency stated that the new and updated fields would appear as agencies updated listings through the end of the calendar year, and it pointed users to the public data standards at grants.gov/data-standards.