Lobbying registrant · LD-2 disclosures
Viasat, Inc.
California
57 filings · 1 client · 6 lobbyists registered · 2012–2026 · latest filed Jul 17, 2026
Fees billed to clients
$0
never billed a fee — files for itself
Its own lobbying spend
$12.3M
filed on its own behalf
Clients represented
1
6 lobbyists registered
Reported 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 they lobby for
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Telecommunications
TEC · 1 client
44 filings
$9M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
43 filings
$10.8M on those filings
Homeland Security
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
- Michael Rapelyea45 filings1 client · through 2020
- Bruce Cathell20 filings1 client · through 2026
- Todd PutnamCovered position: Defense Fellow, Senator Burr; Defense Fellow, Rep. Issa.8 filings1 client · through 2021
- Amy Mehlman8 filings1 client · through 2021
- Susan NelsonCovered position: Legislative staff, Reps Young, Neumann, Shuster and Weldon; Schedule C, NASA3 filings1 client · through 2023
The filings
The 20 most recent of 57 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: viasat-inc.