Who buys NAICS 517311 (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 | 103 | $9.0M | — |
| Q2 FY2026 | 98 | $55.1M | +511% |
| Q3 FY2026 | 40 | $22.5M | -59% |
| Q4 FY2026 · partial | 27 | $7.5M | -67% |
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 83% of this market's dollars) — treat that quarter as incomplete, not as a spending decline.
| # | Contractor | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LUMEN TECHNOLOGIES GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS, INC. | $47.1M | 50.0% |
| 2 | FULL SPECTRUM OPERATIONS LLC | $14.7M | 15.7% |
| 3 | UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ADVANCED INTERNET DEVELOPMENT | $9.3M | 9.9% |
| 4 | COMCAST GOVERNMENT SERVICES LLC | $8.3M | 8.8% |
| 5 | LUMEN TECHNOLOGIES GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS, INC | $3.2M | 3.5% |
| 6 | VERIZON MARYLAND LLC | $2.8M | 3.0% |
| 7 | GRANITE TELECOMMUNICATIONS, LLC | $1.9M | 2.0% |
| 8 | UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF MARYLAND | $1.8M | 2.0% |
| 9 | AT&T INC | $1.8M | 1.9% |
| 10 | COX COMMUNICATIONS HAMPTON ROADS, L.L.C. | $619K | 0.7% |
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 | $77.7M | 82.5% |
| Department of Commerce | $11.1M | 11.8% |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $4.2M | 4.5% |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $667K | 0.7% |
| Government Accountability Office | $167K | 0.2% |
| Department of the Interior | $105K | 0.1% |
| Department of Transportation | $103K | 0.1% |
| Department of State | $30K | 0.0% |
| Department of Homeland Security | $14K | 0.0% |
| General Services Administration | $12K | 0.0% |
| Set-aside type | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Small business set-aside | $349K | 41.2% |
| 8(a) | $0 | 0.0% |
| SDVOSB | $0 | 0.0% |
| WOSB / EDWOSB | $0 | 0.0% |
| HUBZone | $0 | 0.0% |
| No set-aside (full & open) | $498K | 58.8% |
Share of obligations on awards whose set-aside type is recorded — 1% 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.
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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.