Federal contractor · CHEYENNE, WY

FOURTH STATE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC

FOURTH STATE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC received $176.3K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards (−86% vs FY2025). Since FY2019: $6.7M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($176.3K). It also received $200K in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$176.3K
New awards
1
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
NFT8U57QWUL5
Small businessVeteran-ownedService-disabled veteran-owned
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 50KFY2019
  2. 700KFY2020
  3. 49.7KFY2021
  4. 1.5MFY2022
  5. 1.2MFY2023
  6. 1.7MFY2024
  7. 1.2MFY2025
  8. 176.3KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$176.3K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$176.3K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Laramie County, WY$176.3K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $176.3K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $176.3K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.8% · $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 Navy$176.3K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. ENHANCED THERMO-SCATTER SYSTEM (ETSS): MOBILE OVER-THE-HORIZON COMMUNICATIONS EXPERIMENTS$176.3K
    Department of the Navy· Laramie County, WY· Professional services· Jan 30, 2026 – Apr 27, 2026· N6600126C5201

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.

FOURTH STATE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC received $200K in federal assistance in FY2026, on 4 actions (1 new awards), −72% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 43.001 · Science ($100K).

Assistance · FY2026
$200K
New awards
1
Actions
4
Since FY2023
$1.8M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 498.9KFY2023
  2. 430KFY2024
  3. 716.1KFY2025
  4. 200KFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$200K100%

Top programs

  1. 43.001 · Science$100K50%
  2. 12.300 · Basic and Applied Scientific Research$100K50%

Awarding agencies

  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$100K50%
  2. Department of the Navy$100K50%
    Department of Defense

Largest awards

  1. THE STUDY OF EQUATORIAL SPREAD F (ESF) AND THE IONOSPHERIC F3 LAYER$1.2M
    12.300 · Basic and Applied Scientific Research· Department of the Navy· Project grant· Jan 22, 2024 – Mar 4, 2026· N000142412140
  2. PROVIDE MEASUREMENTS OF IONOSPHERIC DENSITY IN SUPPORT OF TWO NASA SOUNDING ROCKETS TO EXPLORE THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMO.$100K
    43.001 · Science· National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Project grant· Jan 26, 2026 – Sep 10, 2026· 80NSSC26K0028

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · FY2023–FY2026.

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 3 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. GRAYMATTER ROBOTICS INC.$2.9M−96% in FY2026
    GARDENA, CA · 92% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development services
  2. ARTEMIS, INC.$3.1M−100% in FY2026
    HAUPPAUGE, NY · 94% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development services
  3. NANOSPERSE LLC$3.1M−100% in FY2026
    DAYTON, OH · 94% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development 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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.