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$183,384,822

Department of Agriculture·Office of the Chief Financial Officer

to LUMEN TECHNOLOGIES GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS, INC.

financeactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2021 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2021-12-16·LATEST ACTION2026-05-14·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_12314422F0069_1205_GS00Q17NSD3006_4732
Award description

USDANET ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS

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

Latest obligation on the USDA's enterprise IT infrastructure contract with Lumen, supporting government network and communications systems.

Sub-sectors
government-it-infrastructureenterprise-network-modernization
Why this matters

USDA's backbone IT infrastructure underpins farm programs, food safety, and rural broadband initiatives affecting millions of Americans and billions in annual spending.

Supply-chain signal

Lumen's role as critical infrastructure provider for federal networks creates dependency on telecom vendor capacity and security posture across USDA operations.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. government reliance on domestic telecom providers for classified and sensitive agricultural/food-security networks reflects broader effort to reduce foreign telecom exposure.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-22. Cost: $0.002938.

Period of performance
Start
2021-12-16
End
2026-09-30
Status
activein 92 days
Sources

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