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$155,297,859

Department of Agriculture·Office of the Chief Financial Officer

to AT&T ENTERPRISES, LLC

telecomactive
ACTION DATE2026-05-08·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_12314423C0069_1205_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

USDA DATA AND VOICE SERVICES

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Provides data and voice telecommunications services to USDA facilities and operations nationwide.

Sub-sectors
government-communicationsvoice-data-services
Why this matters

Critical infrastructure supporting federal agricultural agency operations; large contract signals government reliance on commercial telecom providers.

Supply-chain signal

Indicates sustained demand for enterprise-grade telecom services to federal agencies; supports AT&T's government services division.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. government telecom contracts reinforce domestic carrier dominance; excludes Chinese telecom vendors from federal infrastructure.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002067.

Period of performance
Start
2023-09-11
End
2026-09-30
Status
activein 136 days
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