Federal contractor · MOBILE, AL

SOUTHERN LIGHT LLC

SOUTHERN LIGHT LLC received $210.8K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 21 awards (−70% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $17.9M. Its largest customer was Defense Information Systems Agency ($210.8K). It also received $6.4M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$210.8K
New awards
21
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
6.7%
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. 2.7MFY2017
  2. 1.1MFY2018
  3. 2.8MFY2019
  4. 4.4MFY2020
  5. 3.8MFY2021
  6. 2.2MFY2022
  7. 467.4KFY2023
  8. -306.7KFY2024
  9. 708.9KFY2025
  10. 210.8KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Defense Information Systems Agency$210.8K100%
    21 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. IT & telecom$210.8K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Montgomery County, AL$153.3K73%
  2. Bradford County, FL$71.4K34%
  3. Mobile County, AL$67.7K32%
  4. Harrison County, MS$47.3K22%
  5. Bay County, FL$46.3K22%
  6. Duval County, FL$26.1K12%
  7. Houston County, GA$26.1K12%
  8. Okaloosa County, FL$24K11%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition6.7%
    US 39% · $14.1K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions6.7%
    US 8.7% · $14.1K
  • 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. SLLC000089EBM 10.3125GB$730.2K
    Defense Information Systems Agency· Duval County, FL· IT & telecom· Jul 9, 2021 – Feb 24, 2026· HC101321PA381
  2. SLLC000064EBM - 2.5GB WAVE$565.8K
    Defense Information Systems Agency· Montgomery County, AL· IT & telecom· Nov 26, 2019 – Feb 20, 2026· HC101320PA163
  3. SLLC000084EBM - 1 GB$422.5K
    Defense Information Systems Agency· Bradford County, FL· IT & telecom· Dec 15, 2020 – Feb 20, 2026· HC101321PA120
  4. SLLC000083EBM - 10 GIGABIT$362.2K
    Defense Information Systems Agency· Mobile County, AL· IT & telecom· Nov 5, 2020 – Feb 20, 2026· HC101321PA055
  5. SLLC000094EBM$333K
    Defense Information Systems Agency· Mobile County, AL· IT & telecom· Nov 17, 2021 – Feb 24, 2026· HC101322PA072
  6. SLLC000063EBM - 2.5GB WAVE$312.7K
    Defense Information Systems Agency· Montgomery County, AL· IT & telecom· Nov 25, 2019 – Feb 20, 2026· HC101320PA162
  7. SLLC000076EBM 10 GB ETHERNET DIVERSE REQUIREMENT$312.2K
    Defense Information Systems Agency· Mobile County, AL· IT & telecom· Apr 27, 2020 – Feb 20, 2026· HC101320PA776
  8. 10GBPS ETHERNET SLLC000060EBM$283.3K
    Defense Information Systems Agency· Bay County, FL· IT & telecom· Sep 10, 2019 – Feb 20, 2026· HC101319PA832

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.

SOUTHERN LIGHT LLC received $6.4M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 192 actions (138 new awards), −41% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries ($5.8M).

Assistance · FY2026
$6.4M
New awards
138
Actions
192
Since FY2021
$44.4M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 4.4MFY2021
  2. 7.9MFY2022
  3. 5.8MFY2023
  4. 9.1MFY2024
  5. 10.8MFY2025
  6. 6.4MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$6.4M100%

Top programs

  1. 32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries$5.8M91%
  2. 32.005 · Universal Service Fund - Rural Health Care$574.7K9.0%

Awarding agencies

  1. Federal Communications Commission$6.4M100%

Largest awards

  1. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES.$1.1M
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Jul 31, 2026 – Jul 31, 2026· SL-2699035819
  2. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES.$838.3K
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Jul 31, 2026 – Jul 31, 2026· SL-2699045441
  3. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES.$747.4K
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Nov 30, 2024 – Jul 31, 2026· SL-2499056445
  4. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES$637.5K
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Jul 31, 2024 – Jul 31, 2026· SL-2499015526
  5. THE RURAL HEALTH CARE (RHC) PROGRAM SUPPORTS HEALTH CARE FACILITIES IN BRINGING WORLD CLASS MEDICAL CARE TO RURAL AREAS THROUGH INCREASED…$613.1K
    32.005 · Universal Service Fund - Rural Health Care· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Jul 31, 2024 – May 31, 2026· RHCHCF-RHC20220012437
  6. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES$530.5K
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Jul 31, 2024 – Jul 31, 2026· SL-2499035883

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

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

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

1 company · $56.3K reported

  1. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CORPORATION$56.3K
    ATLANTA, GA · 1 subaward · Commercial and service industry machinery manufacturing

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

  1. INCREDITEK, INC.$450.6K−25% in FY2026
    BELCAMP, MD · 66% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Information Systems Agency · Wired and wireless telecommunications carriers
  2. XTERA INC$1M−4.5% in FY2026
    ALLEN, TX · 78% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Information Systems Agency · Wired and wireless telecommunications carriers
  3. IRON-SHIELD NETWORK SOLUTIONS LLC$244.5K−21% in FY2026
    ORLANDO, FL · 31% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Information Systems Agency · Wired and wireless telecommunications carriersDefense Information Systems Agency · Other 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.

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.