Zepher Flight Labs — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Zepher Flight Labs
Washington
36 filings from 1 registrant · 2017–2025 · latest filed Jan 19, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$560K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$560K
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.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF
32 filings
$560K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
29 filings
$500K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 42 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20214 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2810115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20184 filingsthrough 2018
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: zepher-flight-labs.
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
118th Congress
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2024
3 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2587118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4350117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20223 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 7900117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20233 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2792117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20223 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20203 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 2740116th CongressLabor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 20203 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 2968116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2019
S. 1790116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 20203 filingsthrough 2019
S. 4049116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20213 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3219115th CongressMake America Secure Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5515115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20193 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Covered position:
24 filingsthrough 2022
Chris J MillerCrossroads Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff/Legislative Director, Rep. Reichert; Senior Legislative Asst, Rep. Miller; Legislative Asst, Rep. Dunn; LC, Sen. Hutchinson; Staff Asst, Sen. Smith18 filingsthrough 2022
John GreenCrossroads Strategies, LLCCovered position: ​Dep Chief of Staff/Leg Aide, Senator Trent Lott2 filingsthrough 2017
Stewart HallCrossroads Strategies, LLCCovered position: ​Legislative Director, Senator Richard Shelby2 filingsthrough 2017
Jason Benjamin Van PeltCrossroads Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senior LA, LA, Staff Asst: Cong. Ed Whitfield2 filingsthrough 2017
Covered positions · 14 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
