Who buys NAICS 517410 (Satellite Telecommunications) 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 | 112 | $298.8M | — |
| Q2 FY2026 | 181 | $76.2M | -75% |
| Q3 FY2026 | 122 | $32.4M | -58% |
| Q4 FY2026 · partial | 257 | $32.3M | -0% |
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 92% of this market's dollars) — treat that quarter as incomplete, not as a spending decline.
| # | Contractor | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP. | $280.7M | 63.9% |
| 2 | INMARSAT GOVERNMENT, INC. | $79.4M | 18.1% |
| 3 | SES SPACE & DEFENSE INC. | $22.6M | 5.1% |
| 4 | SATCOM DIRECT GOVERNMENT, LLC | $8.5M | 1.9% |
| 5 | IRIDIUM COMMUNICATIONS INC. | $7.8M | 1.8% |
| 6 | ONEWEB TECHNOLOGIES INC. | $7.2M | 1.6% |
| 7 | NIC4 INC | $4.1M | 0.9% |
| 8 | TRACE SYSTEMS INC. | $3.9M | 0.9% |
| 9 | CENTERBRIDGE PARTNERS, L.P | $2.3M | 0.5% |
| 10 | O.A.S. LLC | $1.7M | 0.4% |
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 | $402.9M | 91.7% |
| Department of State | $13.5M | 3.1% |
| Department of Agriculture | $6.3M | 1.4% |
| Department of Justice | $4.2M | 0.9% |
| Department of Homeland Security | $3.8M | 0.9% |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $3.1M | 0.7% |
| U.S. Agency for Global Media | $1.8M | 0.4% |
| Department of Transportation | $1.2M | 0.3% |
| Department of the Interior | $1.2M | 0.3% |
| Department of Commerce | $1.1M | 0.3% |
| Set-aside type | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Small business set-aside | $671K | 1.9% |
| 8(a) | $0 | 0.0% |
| SDVOSB | $263K | 0.8% |
| WOSB / EDWOSB | $68K | 0.2% |
| HUBZone | $0 | 0.0% |
| Other (Indian economic enterprise, veteran, …) | $46K | 0.1% |
| No set-aside (full & open) | $33.6M | 97.0% |
Share of obligations on awards whose set-aside type is recorded — 8% 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.
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.