Federal contractor · HOUSTON, TX

CROWN CASTLE FIBER LLC

CROWN CASTLE FIBER LLC received $574K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 17 awards (+1.7% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $7.1M. Its largest customer was Smithsonian Institution ($265K). It also received $305.1M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$574K
New awards
17
Sole-source
8.3%
Single offer
27%
UEI
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Other than small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 182.6KFY2017
  2. 119KFY2018
  3. 698.8KFY2019
  4. 2.5MFY2020
  5. 719.3KFY2021
  6. 642.7KFY2022
  7. 638.6KFY2023
  8. 488.3KFY2024
  9. 564.5KFY2025
  10. 574KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Smithsonian Institution$265K46%
    1 awards
  2. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources$122.5K21%
    1 awards
  3. Defense Information Systems Agency$115.8K20%
    10 awards
  4. Department of the Air Force$34.2K6.0%
    1 awards
  5. Consumer Product Safety Commission$23.4K4.1%
    1 awards
  6. Drug Enforcement Administration$6,0001.0%
    1 awards
  7. U.S. Coast Guard$3,6000.6%
    1 awards
  8. U.S. Marshals Service$3,5640.6%
    1 awards
  9. Department of Energy$00.0%
    0 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. IT & telecom$574K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. New York County, NY$265K46%
  2. Montgomery County, MD$122.5K21%
  3. Middlesex County, MA$34.6K6.0%
  4. Franklin County, OH$28.7K5.0%
  5. Anne Arundel County, MD$26.3K4.6%
  6. Arlington County, VA$24.1K4.2%
  7. Harris County, TX$23.4K4.1%
  8. Calhoun County, MI$22.5K3.9%
  9. Alexandria city, VA$16.2K2.8%
  10. Erie County, NY$6,0001.0%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition35%
    US 39% · $203.1K
  • Sole-source awards8.3%
    US 30% · $47.4K
  • Single-offer competitions27%
    US 8.7% · $155.7K
  • 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. U.S. Coast Guard$3,600
    Department of Homeland Security · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. 3-MONTH FUNDING FOR THE NEW WAN FIBER PROJECT IN NEW YORK 7/1/17 - 9/30/17 SOLICITATION # F16SOL10061.$2.1M
    Smithsonian Institution· New York County, NY· IT & telecom· Sep 11, 2017 – Mar 24, 2026· F17CC10526
  2. CRCA000018EBM 10GB ETHERNET TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE$157.7K
    Defense Information Systems Agency· Anne Arundel County, MD· IT & telecom· Jun 16, 2020 – Feb 25, 2026· HC101320PB005
  3. CRCA000025EBM - 1GB ETHERNET$145K
    Defense Information Systems Agency· Arlington County, VA· IT & telecom· Nov 30, 2020 – Feb 25, 2026· HC101321PA093
  4. CRCA000023EBM - 10GB ETHERNET$131.4K
    Defense Information Systems Agency· Calhoun County, MI· IT & telecom· Aug 26, 2020 – Feb 25, 2026· HC101320PB290
  5. DARK FIBER CONNECTIVITY SERVICES$122.5K
    Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources· Montgomery County, MD· IT & telecom· Feb 27, 2026 – Feb 27, 2026· 75N98026F00039
  6. CRCA000024EBM - 10GB ETHERNET$108.2K
    Defense Information Systems Agency· Franklin County, OH· IT & telecom· Sep 30, 2020 – Feb 25, 2026· HC101320PB443
  7. CRCA000011EBM - 1GB ETHERNET$100.3K
    Defense Information Systems Agency· Arlington County, VA· IT & telecom· Feb 26, 2020 – Feb 2, 2026· HC101320PA516
  8. CRCA000012EBM - 10MB ETHERNET$99.7K
    Defense Information Systems Agency· Alexandria city, VA· IT & telecom· Mar 10, 2020 – Feb 25, 2026· HC101320PA559

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

CROWN CASTLE FIBER LLC received $305.1M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 2,486 actions (2,094 new awards). Its largest program was 32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries ($295.1M).

Assistance · FY2026
$305.1M
New awards
2,094
Actions
2,486
Since FY2021
$517.6M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 7MFY2021
  2. 54.8MFY2022
  3. 65.4MFY2023
  4. 85.4MFY2024
  5. 305.1MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$305.1M100%

Top programs

  1. 32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries$295.1M97%
  2. 32.005 · Universal Service Fund - Rural Health Care$10.1M3.3%

Awarding agencies

  1. Federal Communications Commission$305.1M100%

Largest awards

  1. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES.$26.3M
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 31, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026· SL-2699055678
  2. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES.$25.9M
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 31, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026· SL-2599026036
  3. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES.$25.5M
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 31, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026· SL-2699055693
  4. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES.$24.7M
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 31, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026· SL-2599026043
  5. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES.$11.3M
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 31, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026· SL-2599026020
  6. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES.$10.4M
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 31, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026· SL-2699055657

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

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

  • Sub-contracts: $310.3K (1 subaward)
  • Sub-grants: $80.6K (1 subaward)

2 primes

  1. CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$310.3K79%
    PITTSBURGH, PA · 1 subaward
  2. FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$80.6K21%
    MIAMI, FL · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $292.4K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $1M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $740.7K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $311.2K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $42K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $390.9K 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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

4 companies · $2.8M reported

  1. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$1.5M
    LEXINGTON, MA · 5 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$925.8K
    MIAMI, FL · 5 subawards
  3. CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$310.3K
    PITTSBURGH, PA · 1 subaward

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 14 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. MEO - SERVICOS DE COMUNICACOES E MULTIMEDIA, S.A.$187.1K−88% in FY2026
    LISBOA, PRT · 7.4% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Computer systems design and related servicesDefense Information Systems Agency · Wired telecommunications carriers
  2. STANLEY DRAKE CONSTRUCTION CO LLC$231.6K−100% in FY2026
    SUMTER, SC · 6.3% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Computer systems design and related services
  3. ORION SYSTEMS INC$252.4K−9.2% in FY2026
    FAIRLESS HILLS, PA · 6.3% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Computer systems design and related services

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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

  • Crown CastleAI match · 99%
Lobbying · 2025
$0
4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2025
$4.4M
$4.4M in its own reports

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$4M
    8 reports
  2. 2024$440K
    6 reports
  3. 2025$0
    4 reports

Top issues

  1. Telecommunications13 reports
  2. Communications, broadcasting, radio and TV4 reports
  3. Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code2 reports
  4. Aviation, aircraft and airlines1 reports
  5. Economics and economic development1 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES13 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE12 reports
  3. Natl Park Service (NPS)3 reports
  4. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)2 reports
  5. Treasury - Dept of2 reports
  6. Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB)1 reports
  7. Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA)1 reports
  8. U.S. Commission of Fine Arts1 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. Winn Strategies, LLC$0
    12 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.