Federal contractor · ATLANTA, GA

NEW CINGULAR WIRELESS SERVICES, INC.

NEW CINGULAR WIRELESS SERVICES, INC. received $835.5K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (+13% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $28.8M. Its largest customer was Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acquisition and Property Management Division ($835.5K). It also received $442.6M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$835.5K
New awards
3
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Parent company
AT&T 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.

Part of the AT&T ENTERPRISES, LLC company family: 71 registered entities, $1.3B in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. AT&T ENTERPRISES, LLCCHANTILLY, VA · Family page
    $997.2M
  2. ATT MOBILITY LLCATLANTA, GA
    $135.6M
  3. AT&T ENTERPRISES, LLCROCHESTER, NY
    $98.4M
  4. AT&T ENTERPRISES, LLCCOLUMBIA, MD
    $26.1M
  5. AT&T MOBILITY NATIONAL ACCOUNTS LLCATLANTA, GA
    $7.8M

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

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 27.3MFY2017
  2. 5MFY2018
  3. -1.3MFY2019
  4. -2MFY2020
  5. -2.3MFY2021
  6. -311.6KFY2022
  7. -35.8KFY2023
  8. 816.1KFY2024
  9. 740KFY2025
  10. 835.5KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acquisition and Property Management Division$835.5K100%
    3 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$835.5K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. District of Columbia, DC$835.5K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $835.5K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $835.5K
  • 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. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acquisition and Property Management Division$835.5K
    Department of Justice · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. TIII AND PEN REGISTERS FOR ALL FIELD DIVISIONS$809K
    Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acquisition and Property Management Division· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Jun 27, 2025 – Aug 13, 2026· 15A00025PAQA00163
  2. TIII AND PEN REGISTERS FOR ALL FIELD DIVISIONS$450K
    Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acquisition and Property Management Division· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Jun 1, 2026 – Sep 24, 2026· 15A00026PAQA00138
  3. TIII AND PEN REGISTERS FOR ALL FIELD DIVISIONS$396.5K
    Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acquisition and Property Management Division· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Jun 22, 2022 – Mar 19, 2026· 15A00022PAQA00272

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.

NEW CINGULAR WIRELESS SERVICES, INC. received $442.6M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 172 actions (116 new awards). Its largest program was 32.002 · Universal Service Fund - High Cost ($441.2M).

Assistance · FY2026
$442.6M
New awards
116
Actions
172
Since FY2021
$488.8M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 2.5MFY2021
  2. 18.8MFY2022
  3. 4.8MFY2023
  4. 24.4MFY2024
  5. -4.3MFY2025
  6. 442.6MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$442.6M100%

Top programs

  1. 32.002 · Universal Service Fund - High Cost$441.2M99.7%
  2. 32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries$952K0.2%
  3. 32.003 · Universal Service Fund - Lifeline$410.1K0.1%
  4. 32.005 · Universal Service Fund - Rural Health Care$10.4K0.0%
  5. 32.007 · Connected Care Pilot Program$8,8700.0%

Awarding agencies

  1. Federal Communications Commission$442.6M100%

Largest awards

  1. THE HIGH COST PROGRAM PROVIDES FUNDING TO COMPANIES WORKING TO EXPAND CONNECTIVITY IN UNSERVED OR UNDERSERVED AREAS$272.2M
    32.002 · Universal Service Fund - High Cost· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 31, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026· HC-143029765-289912-FHCS
  2. THE HIGH COST PROGRAM PROVIDES FUNDING TO COMPANIES WORKING TO EXPAND CONNECTIVITY IN UNSERVED OR UNDERSERVED AREAS$143.9M
    32.002 · Universal Service Fund - High Cost· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 31, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026· HC-143029765-279010-FHCS
  3. THE HIGH COST PROGRAM PROVIDES FUNDING TO COMPANIES WORKING TO EXPAND CONNECTIVITY IN UNSERVED OR UNDERSERVED AREAS$84M
    32.002 · Universal Service Fund - High Cost· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Mar 31, 2022 – Sep 30, 2026· HC-143032578-529910-FHCS
  4. THE HIGH COST PROGRAM PROVIDES FUNDING TO COMPANIES WORKING TO EXPAND CONNECTIVITY IN UNSERVED OR UNDERSERVED AREAS$60M
    32.002 · Universal Service Fund - High Cost· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Mar 31, 2022 – Sep 30, 2026· HC-143032578-389015-FHCS
  5. THE HIGH COST PROGRAM PROVIDES FUNDING TO COMPANIES WORKING TO EXPAND CONNECTIVITY IN UNSERVED OR UNDERSERVED AREAS$36.9M
    32.002 · Universal Service Fund - High Cost· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 31, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026· HC-143029765-449022-FHCS
  6. THE HIGH COST PROGRAM PROVIDES FUNDING TO COMPANIES WORKING TO EXPAND CONNECTIVITY IN UNSERVED OR UNDERSERVED AREAS$24.3M
    32.002 · Universal Service Fund - High Cost· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 31, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026· HC-143029765-319026-FHCS

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

Teaming partners

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

Companies it pays

7 companies · $11M reported

  1. VERIZON BUSINESS NETWORK SERVICES LLC$5.2M
    ASHBURN, VA · 1 subaward
  2. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS$2.4M
    RICHARDSON, TX · 1 subaward
  3. VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY$1.7M
    BLACKSBURG, VA · 1 subaward

Primes that pay it

29 companies · $285.9M reported

  1. CALIFORNIA$117.1M
    SACRAMENTO, CA · 23 subawards
  2. ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOP$48.8M
    NASHVILLE, TN · 8 subawards
  3. ELECTRIC BOAT CORPORATION$23.6M
    GROTON, CT · 5 subawards · Computer systems design and related services

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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 238 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. LUMEN TECHNOLOGIES GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS, INC.$1.3B−21% in FY2026
    DENVER, CO · 62 entities · 21% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Wired telecommunications carriersDefense Information Systems Agency · Wired telecommunications carriersOffice of the Chief Financial Officer · Wired telecommunications carriers+4 more
  2. VERIZON BUSINESS NETWORK SERVICES LLC$1.9B−12% in FY2026
    ASHBURN, VA · 78 entities · 21% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Information Systems Agency · Wired telecommunications carriersInternal Revenue Service · Wired telecommunications carriersFederal Aviation Administration · Wired telecommunications carriers+10 more
  3. AOC CONNECT, LLC$169.9M−88% in FY2026
    ASHBURN, VA · 3.8% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Information Systems Agency · Wired telecommunications carriersU.S. Customs and Border Protection · Wired telecommunications carriers

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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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 AT&T ENTERPRISES, LLC (71 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • AT&T INC.AI match · 100%
  • DIRECTV, LLCAI match · 99%
Lobbying · 2025
$1.6M
33 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$5.9M
$5.9M in its own reports
PAC giving · 2026
$934.5K
2 PACs

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$1.6M
    21 reports
  2. 2024$1.8M
    26 reports
  3. 2025$1.6M
    33 reports
  4. 2026$970K
    18 reports

Top issues

  1. Communications, broadcasting, radio and TV69 reports
  2. Copyright, patent and trademark69 reports
  3. Consumer issues, safety and products62 reports
  4. Telecommunications57 reports
  5. Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code32 reports
  6. Media (information and publishing)28 reports
  7. Labor issues, antitrust and workplace13 reports
  8. Trade (domestic and foreign)7 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES90 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE90 reports
  3. Commerce - Dept of (DOC)7 reports
  4. U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)7 reports
  5. White House Office7 reports
  6. Council of Economic Advisers (CEA)1 reports
  7. Natl Economic Council (NEC)1 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. Forbes-Tate$840K
    14 reports
  2. OGR$700K
    14 reports
  3. Farragut Partners LLP$700K
    14 reports
  4. HB STRATEGIES$700K
    11 reports
  5. TwinLogic Strategies, LLP$690K
    14 reports
  6. EAST CAPITOL ADVISORS LLC$72.5K
    8 reports
  7. Mr. Brian Kelly$70K
    7 reports
  8. POTOMAC STRATEGIC CONSULTING LLC$30K
    2 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

  1. Republican$485.5K52%
  2. Democratic$448K48%
  3. Other or none$1,0000.1%

PACs sponsored

  • AT&T INC. EMPLOYEE FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AT&T EMPLOYEE FEDERAL PAC)$2M raised this cycle
  • AT&T INC. OHIO EMPLOYEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AT&T OHIO PAC)$16K raised this cycle

PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.

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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.