Federal contractor · BETHESDA, MD

LIGHTFRONT LLC

LIGHTFRONT LLC received $16.8M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 12 awards (+56% vs FY2025). Since FY2023: $49.7M. Its largest customer was U.S. Census Bureau ($13.2M).

Obligations · FY2026
$16.8M
New awards
12
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
8.3%
UEI
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Small businessMinority-owned8(a) program
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 9MFY2023
  2. 13.1MFY2024
  3. 10.8MFY2025
  4. 16.8MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. U.S. Census Bureau$13.2M79%
    2 awards
  2. Office of the Chief Financial Officer$2.1M13%
    2 awards
  3. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration$1.4M8.3%
    8 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. IT & telecom$10.2M61%
  2. Professional services$6.6M39%

Where the work was performed

  1. Prince George's County, MD$14M83%
  2. District of Columbia, DC$1.4M8.5%
  3. Montgomery County, MD$1.4M8.3%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition8.3%
    US 39% · $1.4M
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions8.3%
    US 8.8% · $1.4M
  • 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. IT SUPPORT SERVICES FOR ECON. ECON IT INFRASTRUCTURE AND MIDDLEWARE OPERATIONS SERVICES AND SUPPORT (EIS MIDDLEWARE, DATABASE ADMINISTRATION, DEVOPS, OKTA-MFA$6.7M
    U.S. Census Bureau· Prince George's County, MD· IT & telecom· Aug 18, 2026 – Aug 18, 2026· 13ADEP26F0012
  2. IT SUPPORT SERVICES FOR ECON. ON-PREM OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE SUPPORT , CLOUD MIGRATION SUPPORT, CLOUD DEVELOPMENT, INTEGRATION, AND OPERATIONS SUPPORT, STEPS TO STEPSII INDICATOR MIGRATION$6.6M
    U.S. Census Bureau· Prince George's County, MD· Professional services· Aug 18, 2026 – Aug 18, 2026· 13ADEP26F0014
  3. NATIONAL AGRICULTURE LIBRARY (NAL) APPLICATION SUPPORT SERVICES CONTRACT$1.4M
    Office of the Chief Financial Officer· District of Columbia, DC· IT & telecom· Aug 20, 2026 – Aug 20, 2026· 12314426F0322
  4. AGRICULTURE RESEARCH SERVICE (ARS) AZURE APPLICATION MIGRATION$718.3K
    Office of the Chief Financial Officer· Prince George's County, MD· IT & telecom· Aug 13, 2026 – Aug 13, 2026· 12314426F0295
  5. FY26 - FY26 SMARTSHEETS-OCIO-SDD$336.7K
    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration· Montgomery County, MD· IT & telecom· Sep 9, 2026 – Sep 9, 2026· 1305M426F0107
  6. SMARTSHEET PURCHASE FOR 316 USER LICENSES, 1 CONTROL CENTER AND 1 DATA SHUTTLE FOR NWS POP IS 9/13/2026 - 9/12/2027$282.5K
    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration· Montgomery County, MD· IT & telecom· Aug 25, 2026 – Aug 25, 2026· 1305M426F0092
  7. SMARTSHEET USER LICENSES FOR NMFS 1. SMARTGOV LICENSES - QTY: 238 2. CONTROL CENTER BLUEPRINT - QTY 2 POP: 9/13/2026 - 09/12/2027 POC: [email removed]$273.7K
    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration· Montgomery County, MD· IT & telecom· Aug 19, 2026 – Aug 19, 2026· 1305M426F0077
  8. TO PURCHASE 174 SMARTSHEET LICENSES, 2 SMARTSHEET CONTROL CENTER LICENSES AND 50 SMARTSHEET CONSULTING HOURS$198K
    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration· Montgomery County, MD· IT & telecom· Sep 1, 2026 – Sep 1, 2026· 1305M426F0100

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

  1. QUALTRYX, LLC$37.4M−16% in FY2026
    RIDGEWOOD, NY · 62% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Census Bureau · Computer systems design and related services
  2. REVEAL GLOBAL CONSULTING LLC$34M+30% in FY2026
    FULTON, MD · 56% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Census Bureau · Computer systems design and related servicesU.S. Census Bureau · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  3. IMAGINE BELIEVE REALIZE LLC$60.5M−6.5% in FY2026
    ROCKLEDGE, FL · 62% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Census Bureau · 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.