What specific DHS task orders name ICE as the served component under AT&T's 2024 contract?
Executive summary
Public records and reporting show that the clearest, specific task orders naming Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a served component under AT&T’s DHS work are the four Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) task orders awarded to AT&T in 2021 that explicitly covered DHS components including ICE [1] [2] [3]; reporting on AT&T’s separate 2024 GETS/WPS contract for DHS does not, in the sources provided, list ICE by name as a served component [4]. Other sources document longstanding AT&T work across DHS subagencies including ICE via FirstNet and earlier awards, but the available documents do not produce a different 2024 task order explicitly naming ICE beyond the earlier EIS task orders and FirstNet work [5] [2].
1. The concrete task orders that do name ICE: AT&T’s four EIS task orders
Multiple contemporaneous announcements state that DHS awarded AT&T four task orders under the General Services Administration’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions vehicle that explicitly covered modernized networking services for DHS headquarters, ICE, CISA and the Science & Technology Directorate, making those four EIS task orders the specific, cited items that name ICE as a served component [1] [2] [3].
2. Why those EIS task orders matter and what they cover
AT&T’s EIS task orders were described as supporting IP‑based networking, SD‑WAN, voice collaboration, equipment, security and FirstNet capabilities for the named DHS components — language that ties the award to communications and priority services for agencies including ICE, and frames the 2021 awards as multi‑component DHS work rather than single‑agency, ICE‑only contracts [2] [1].
3. The 2024 AT&T contract (GETS/WPS) and the limits of the record
AT&T publicly reported a distinct 10‑year, $146 million DHS award in 2024 to provide Government Emergency Telecommunications Service (GETS) and Wireless Priority Service (WPS), expanded to next‑generation 5G networks, but the company’s announcement and the reporting in the provided sources describe the award in DHS‑wide terms and do not enumerate ICE as a named served component in those materials [4]. Based on the documents given, there is no explicit source that lists ICE by name under the 2024 GETS/WPS announcement, so asserting that task orders under that 2024 contract specifically name ICE would exceed what these sources support [4].
4. Corroborating evidence and wider vendor‑agency ties
Independent trackers and advocacy reporting note AT&T’s broader footprint across DHS subagencies, including FirstNet work for ICE (FirstNet contracts in 2018 and 2019) and historical DHS awards totaling hundreds of millions through 2024, which corroborates that AT&T has long provided services to ICE among other agencies — but those references are to multiple separate awards and program relationships rather than to a distinct 2024 task order that plainly names ICE under the GETS/WPS contract [5] [2] [3].
5. Alternative readings and media framing
Some outlets and aggregators list AT&T among large vendors doing significant work for ICE and DHS more broadly (a framing seen in Forbes’ coverage of big ICE contractors), but those pieces mix separate contracts and company histories and do not substitute for an explicit task order citation; in short, media summaries can imply direct 2024 ICE tasking for AT&T, yet the primary documents provided here point to the 2021 EIS task orders and earlier FirstNet awards as the clearest instances where ICE is named [6] [1] [5].
6. What reporting cannot confirm from these sources
The available sources do not include an AT&T task order document dated 2024 that explicitly names ICE as the served component under the GETS/WPS award; because of that gap, the only specific DHS task orders in these records that unambiguously name ICE are the four EIS task orders from 2021 and separate FirstNet tasking from 2018–2019 referenced by watchdog and company materials [1] [2] [5] [3]. If a 2024 task order formally listing ICE exists, it is not present in the documents provided for this analysis.