• Funding for new DOD national security space capabilities in COVID-19 response legislation including P.L. 116-136 - CARES Act, H.R. 6800 - The HEROES Act, S. 1624 the HEALS Act and H.R. 7617 - Department of Defense Appropriations for FY'21. H.R. 133 (P.L. 260) - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 - funding for new DOD national security space capabilities.
• Funding for new DOD national security space capabilities in COVID-19 response legislation - no specific legislation.

Duration: April 21, 2020 to February 11, 2021

General Issues: Defense, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $160,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2020: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Defense - Dept of (DOD), Air Force - Dept of, Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP)

Affiliated organizations: ASTRA Space Inc.; Astranis Space Technologies Corp.; Capella Space Corp.; HawkEye 360, Inc.; Planet Labs Federal, Inc.; Relativity Space, Inc.; Spire Global Inc.