Who buys NAICS 517111 (Wired Telecommunications Carriers) work, who wins it, and what's open right now — from FY2026 USAspending awards and live SAM.gov solicitations.
Contract data as of Oct 18, 2026 (USAspending) · recent coverage verified weekly
| Quarter | Awards | Obligated | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 FY2026 | 468 | $30.0M | — |
| Q2 FY2026 | 373 | $32.2M | +7% |
| Q3 FY2026 | 197 | $8.4M | -74% |
| Q4 FY2026 · partial | 226 | $35.3M | +320% |
Federal fiscal quarters (Q1 = Oct–Dec). Awards are counted in the quarter they start; obligations are the award's obligated amount. The Department of Defense publishes contract awards to USAspending with a 90-day delay, so Q4 FY2026 is still missing most DoD awards (DoD is 38% of this market's dollars) — treat that quarter as incomplete, not as a spending decline.
| # | Contractor | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LUMEN TECHNOLOGIES GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS, INC. | $33.2M | 31.3% |
| 2 | VERIZON MARYLAND LLC | $8.7M | 8.2% |
| 3 | GTT GLOBAL TELECOM GOVERNMENT SERVICES, LLC | $6.9M | 6.5% |
| 4 | TYTO ATHENE, LLC | $5.1M | 4.8% |
| 5 | AT&T TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY, INC | $3.7M | 3.5% |
| 6 | LUMEN TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | $3.2M | 3.0% |
| 7 | CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING LLC | $2.0M | 1.9% |
| 8 | UNILINE D. O. O. | $1.9M | 1.8% |
| 9 | BOWHEAD BASE OPERATIONS LLC | $1.9M | 1.8% |
| 10 | LUMEN TECHNOLOGIES GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS, INC | $1.8M | 1.7% |
Registrations are rolled up to their corporate parent (USAspending parent UEI), so a company with several SAM registrations ranks once.
| Agency | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Defense | $40.2M | 38.0% |
| Department of Homeland Security | $37.1M | 35.0% |
| Department of State | $5.5M | 5.2% |
| Social Security Administration | $5.2M | 4.9% |
| Department of Transportation | $4.3M | 4.1% |
| Department of the Interior | $3.2M | 3.0% |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $3.0M | 2.9% |
| Department of Justice | $2.4M | 2.3% |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $1.6M | 1.6% |
| Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | $1.1M | 1.1% |
| Set-aside type | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Small business set-aside | $1.5M | 2.9% |
| 8(a) | $876K | 1.7% |
| SDVOSB | $539K | 1.1% |
| WOSB / EDWOSB | $0 | 0.0% |
| HUBZone | $0 | 0.0% |
| Other (Indian economic enterprise, veteran, …) | $1 | 0.0% |
| No set-aside (full & open) | $48.1M | 94.3% |
Share of obligations on awards whose set-aside type is recorded — 48% of this market's dollars. Most USAspending bulk-archive records leave the field blank, so blank awards are excluded rather than counted as full & open.
Showing the 10 most recently posted of 22. Links open the notice on SAM.gov.
Source: USAspending.gov contract awards (prime awards with a start date from Oct 1, 2025 through Sep 30, 2026), SAM.gov contract opportunities, and SBA size standards. Recompetes are contracts whose final end date — options included — falls in the next 12 months. Figures are recomputed when a new USAspending load lands. See our data sources.