Federal contractor · ALEXANDRIA, VA

AMERICAN COUNCIL ON THE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INC.

AMERICAN COUNCIL ON THE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INC. received $5.8M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 4 awards (−14% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $49.9M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($5.8M).

Obligations · FY2026
$5.8M
New awards
4
Sole-source
2.5%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
WLP5Z6ENFVY5
Other than small businessNonprofit
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. -2.7MFY2017
  2. 7.6MFY2018
  3. 5.3MFY2019
  4. 4.5MFY2020
  5. 5.4MFY2021
  6. 1.5MFY2022
  7. 7MFY2023
  8. 8.7MFY2024
  9. 6.8MFY2025
  10. 5.8MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Army$5.8M100%
    4 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Education & social services$5.8M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Monterey County, CA$5.8M100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition2.5%
    US 39% · $146.8K
  • Sole-source awards2.5%
    US 30% · $146.8K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of the Army$146.8K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. TIER 1 ORAL PROFICIENCY INTERVIEWS$6.6M
    Department of the Army· Monterey County, CA· Professional services· May 19, 2025 – Mar 27, 2026· W91QF425F0048
  2. THIS IS A NON-PERSONAL SERVICE(S) CONTRACT TO PROVIDE ALL PERSONNEL, EQUIPMENT, SUPPLIES, FACILITIES, TRANSPORTATION, TOOLS, MATERIALS, SUPERVISION, AND OTHER ITEMS AND NON-PERSONAL SERVICES TO PERFORM ORAL PROFICIENCY INTERVIEW TESTING SERVICES$5.5M
    Department of the Army· Monterey County, CA· Education & social services· May 15, 2026 – May 15, 2026· W911S026FA134
  3. DLI DEFENSE LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY TESTS (DLPTS) AND QUALITY CONTROL (QC) AND VALIDATIONS TASK ORDER 20$210.8K
    Department of the Army· Monterey County, CA· Education & social services· Jan 26, 2026 – Jan 26, 2026· W91QF426FA032
  4. DLPT5 QC AND VALIDATIONS CONTRACT. TASK ORDER # TOR1. POP DATES: 07/15/2026 - 01/29/2027 (29 WEEKS)$146.8K
    Department of the Army· Monterey County, CA· Education & social services· Jun 12, 2026 – Jun 12, 2026· W911S026FA154

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $29.9K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $58.1K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $28K received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

1 company · $116K reported

  1. GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$116K
    WASHINGTON, DC · 4 subawards

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 2 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. GP STRATEGIES GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS, INC$25.1M−40% in FY2026
    COLUMBIA, MD · 99.7% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Educational support services
  2. L2 DEFENSE INC$29.9M−74% in FY2026
    BALTIMORE, MD · 68% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Educational support services
  3. INDTAI, INC.$69.8M−32% in FY2026
    VIENNA, VA · 99.7% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Educational support services

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Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Matched organizations

  • American Council on the Teaching of Foreign LanguagesAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2023
$50K
4 reports

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$50K
    4 reports

Top issues

  1. Education4 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES4 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE4 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

  1. The Sheridan Group$50K
    4 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.