Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Stratolaunch LLC
California
33 filings from 2 registrants · 2022–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$2.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$2.2M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$590K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF
21 filings
$990K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Aerospace
AER
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 8800 119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20271 filingthrough 2026
- H.R. 2670 118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20241 filingthrough 2023
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Michael Herson American Defense International19 filingsthrough 2026
- Patrick Michael Large American Defense InternationalCovered position: Chief of Staff to Rep Steve Palazzo, Legislative Assistant to Rep. Sullivan, Legislative Correspondent to Rep. Charles Boustany13 filingsthrough 2026
- James Smythers Stratolaunch LLCCovered position: Dept of State Foreign Service; Sr Congressional Advisor, Dept of State; US Embassy Riyadh; Prof. Staff Member, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; Legislative Affairs Liaison, Office of Dir of Natl Intel; Intel Officer, Defense Intel. Agency6 filingsthrough 2026
- Ryan Tully Stratolaunch LLC Staff, House Armed Svc Cmte; Dep Asst to Pres and Sr. Dir. Eur/Russ Affairs, Sr. Adv Arms Ctrl/Dep Sr. Dir WMD, Dep Sr. Dir WMD/Biodefense-NSC; Adv to U/S ACIS-DOS; Staff, Sen Intel Cmte; Min. Staff Dir-Sen DRIA; Military LA-US Senate
The filings
The 20 most recent of 33 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: stratolaunch-llc.