Cable One Inc.

Cable One Inc., doing business as Sparklight, is a for-profit telecommunications carrier that provides cable television, Wi-Fi, and internet infrastructure services to federal military installations as a prime contractor, competing full-and-open without set-aside designations. Sparklight is a subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with Sparklight operations based in Biloxi, Mississippi. The vendor's federal footprint is concentrated in cable and wired telecommunications services under NAICS 522912 (Cable and Other Subscription Programming) and 517311 (Wired Telecommunications Carriers).

Sparklight's customer base is dominated by military and defense health agencies. The top five customers by award count account for 67% of recent awards: the Department of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command leads with 24 awards totaling $755 thousand in combined potential value, followed by the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 16 (5 awards, $545 thousand), the Department of the Navy Naval Education and Training Command (7 awards, $58 thousand), the Defense Health Agency (3 awards, $30 thousand), and the Department of the Air Force (9 awards, $29 thousand). The rankings align closely — Air Education and Training Command dominates both volume and dollars, accounting for 91% of combined potential value across the top five customers.

Recent representative work includes a $6,131 sole-source firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by Air Education and Training Command on January 27, 2026, for cable television services at Keesler Air Force Base covering 260 drops for six months; a $7,835 purchase order from the Defense Health Agency in October 2021 for first-floor internet Wi-Fi and cable service in Gulfport, Mississippi; and a $16,772 purchase order from Air Education and Training Command in September 2022 for Sparklight visitor center infrastructure. Across 75 total prime awards spanning back to 1989, Sparklight has served 15 distinct federal agencies. Activity has been sparse in recent years — one award each in 2019, 2020, and 2021; two in 2022; and one in 2026 — with only one award reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Sparklight does not subcontract and holds no parent IDVs or GWACs.