Brightstar extends New York Lottery technology contract by two years

Brightstar Lottery will keep supplying lottery technology and services to the New York Lottery for two more years. Its subsidiary Brightstar Global Solutions Corporation signed the extension with the New York State Gaming Commission, which runs the lottery’s functions, the company said on 20 October 2026.

Brightstar Global Solutions is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Brightstar Lottery PLC, according to the group’s Form 6-K furnished to the US Securities and Exchange Commission on 2 December 2025. It is also, with the parent, a co-issuer of the 5.750% senior secured US dollar notes due January 2033 ($750 million), according to the group’s Form 20-F filed on 24 February 2026. In the 2 December 2025 Form 6-K the group said it would use the proceeds of that notes offering and cash on hand to redeem $500,000,000 of its $750,000,000 6.25% senior secured notes due 2027.

The release does not say when the extension starts or when the underlying contract was due to end.

The details

Scott Gunn, Brightstar’s chief operating officer for North America lottery, said the company would keep meeting its contractual obligations under the extension. The company describes itself as the primary technology provider to 26 of the 46 lottery jurisdictions in the US.

The release does not give the contract’s value, the revenue it represents for Brightstar, the terms of the extension or what the original contract covered. It also does not say whether New York will run a new procurement when the extension ends.