Federal contractor · MCLEAN, VA

IRIDIUM SATELLITE LLC

IRIDIUM SATELLITE LLC received $6.5M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (−34% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $302.1M. Its largest customer was Defense Information Systems Agency ($6.6M).

Obligations · FY2026
$6.5M
New awards
3
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
100%
UEI
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Parent company
IRIDIUM COMMUNICATIONS INC.
Other than small business
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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

2 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $19.4M in FY2026 together.

  1. IRIDIUM SATELLITE LLCMCLEAN, VA · Family page
    $6.5M
  2. IRIDIUM SATELLITE LLCTEMPE, AZ
    $12.8M

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 97.3MFY2017
  2. 100MFY2018
  3. 87.6MFY2019
  4. 128KFY2020
  5. 626.2KFY2021
  6. 200KFY2022
  7. 228KFY2023
  8. -478.7KFY2024
  9. 9.9MFY2025
  10. 6.5MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Defense Information Systems Agency$6.6M100%
    1 awards
  2. Missile Defense Agency$5000.0%
    1 awards
  3. Department of the Navy-$16.3K0.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. IT & telecom$6.6M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Harford County, MD$6.6M100%
  2. Madison County, AL$5000.0%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100.0%
    US 39% · $6.5M
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · -$16.3K
  • Single-offer competitions100%
    US 8.7% · $6.6M
  • 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.

Largest awards

  1. ENGINEERING AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES$15.1M
    Defense Information Systems Agency· Harford County, MD· IT & telecom· Aug 22, 2025 – Apr 23, 2026· HC101325F0092
  2. BASE PERIOD CPFF HOLDING CLIN$592.6K
    Department of the Navy· Fairfax County, VA· Research & development· May 11, 2023 – May 6, 2026· N0017823C2401
  3. SCALABLE HOMELAND INNOVATIVE ENTERPRISE LAYERED DEFENSE (SHIELD) INITIAL ORDER.$500
    Missile Defense Agency· Madison County, AL· Research & development· Dec 19, 2025 – Dec 19, 2025· HQ085926FE126

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-grants: $272K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$272K100%
    BALTIMORE, MD · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $11.2M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $221.1K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $39.7K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $401.4K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $272K 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 · $12.5M reported

  1. ELECTRIC BOAT CORPORATION$11.3M
    GROTON, CT · 2 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$407.8K
    LAUREL, MD · 3 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  3. RAYTHEON COMPANY$401.4K
    TUCSON, AZ · 1 subaward · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing

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

  1. COGITAN LLC$53.6M+5.2% in FY2026
    SILVERDALE, WA · 60% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Satellite telecommunications
  2. SATCOM DIRECT GOVERNMENT, LLC$62.1M+5% in FY2026
    MELBOURNE, FL · 3 entities · 42% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Information Systems Agency · Satellite telecommunicationsAir Force · Satellite telecommunications
  3. ARTEL LLC$140.8M−42% in FY2026
    HERNDON, VA · 48% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Information Systems Agency · Satellite telecommunicationsAir Force · Satellite telecommunications

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.

Across the company family of IRIDIUM SATELLITE LLC (2 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • Iridium Satellite, LLCAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$260K
12 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$865K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$245K
    12 reports
  2. 2024$240K
    12 reports
  3. 2025$260K
    12 reports
  4. 2026$120K
    6 reports

Top issues

  1. Defense17 reports
  2. Intelligence and surveillance14 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. SENATE30 reports
  2. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES29 reports
  3. Air Force - Dept of14 reports
  4. Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)14 reports
  5. Commerce - Dept of (DOC)7 reports
  6. Army - Dept of (Other)6 reports
  7. Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA)6 reports
  8. Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP)6 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. Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.$720K
    14 reports
  2. GLOBAL TECH STRATEGIES, LLC$145K
    14 reports
  3. DiNino Associates, LLC$0
    14 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 Sep 30, 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.