# US Army

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/us-army/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

The US Army is the largest branch of the United States military and is responsible for conducting ground combat operations. Its mission is to defend the nation and support humanitarian, peacekeeping, and training missions worldwide. The Army maintains a public API at api.army.mil providing access to news articles, events, and official content using OpenAPI 3 specification.

## Kin Score — 23.6 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 23.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 60.4 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 24.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **US Army Open Data** — The US Army provides open data resources through data.gov and maintains open source projects through the US Army Research Laboratory GitHub organization. Army data includes geos...
- **US Army Articles API** — The Articles API from US Army — 2 operation(s) for articles.
- **US Army Events API** — The Events API from US Army — 1 operation(s) for events.
- **US Army News API** — The News API from US Army — 1 operation(s) for news.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Us Army Agentic Access** — 4 operations

## Security (1)

- **Us Army Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Us Army Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Army, Federal-Government, Military, Defense, Open Data, News

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/us-army/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.