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Lobbying and contracts
What each company reports spending on lobbying, next to the federal contracts it was awarded, by year, with the agencies that appear on both sides.
Lobbying and contract awards are reported separately; showing them together does not mean one caused the other.
About this data
- What it is
- Companies report their lobbying to Congress every quarter (Lobbying Disclosure Act), and the government publishes every federal contract award of $1 million or more on USAspending.gov. This page puts the two public records for the same company next to each other, with the corporate PAC gifts reported to the FEC.
- Who files it
- Lobbying: the company or the firm it hired, on the quarterly LD-2 report. Contracts: the agency that made the award. PAC gifts: the company's PAC, on its FEC reports.
- How current
- Lobbying reports arrive quarterly, up to 20 days after the quarter ends. Contract awards are collected daily. The table is rebuilt after each daily collection.
- How it is counted
- Lobbying: each report counts once. If a report was amended, only the newest version counts. Totals use the company's own report when it files one (it includes payments to hired firms); otherwise the hired firms' reported income. Registrations and reports with no amount are not counted. A firm that hands part of its work to another firm may report the same money as that other firm does; the filings do not allow us to tell. Contracts: each award is counted once, for the company that received it (or its listed parent when only the parent is matched), in the year of its first obligation. The amount is the total obligated to date, so a later increase is counted in the year the award began. Only awards of $1 million or more are collected. Agencies: the offices named on lobbying reports and the awarding agencies of contracts are matched to one department name (the Army, Navy and Air Force count as the Department of Defense; NIH, FDA and CMS as Health and Human Services). An agency is listed under both when the company lobbied it and was awarded a contract by it in the same period. Offices outside this list, and Congress, are not counted as agencies. Last 12 months: lobbying covers the four quarters that ended within the last 12 months; contracts cover awards first obligated within the last 12 months. The current year is year to date.
- Worth knowing
- Lobbying and contract awards are reported separately; showing them together does not mean one caused the other. Matching a lobbying client or a contract recipient to a listed company is automatic and can miss subsidiaries or attach a name wrongly.
Information, not investment advice (disclaimer). Where this data comes from.
Last 12 months by company
| Company | Lobbying, 12 months | Contracts, 12 months | Lobbied and awarding |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNH UnitedHealth Group Incorporated | $9.2M | $24.9B | VA, HHS |
| LMT Lockheed Martin Corporation | $16.3M | $16.9B | Defense (DoD), DHS, NASA |
| RTX RTX Corporation | $380.0K | $13.3B | Transportation |
| MCK McKesson Corporation | $3.2M | $12.2B | HHS |
| BA Boeing Company | $10.8M | $11.6B | Defense (DoD), NASA |
| LDOS Leidos Holdings, Inc. | $5.0M | $4.5B | VA, DHS |
| GD General Dynamics Corporation | $13.9M | $3.7B | Defense (DoD), DHS, HHS, Interior + 6 more |
| NOC Northrop Grumman Corporation | $7.7M | $3.5B | Defense (DoD), NASA |
| LHX L3Harris Technologies, Inc. | $2.5M | $3.0B | Defense (DoD), Transportation, NASA, Commerce + 2 more |
| BAESY BAE SYSTEMS PLC /FI/ | $4.9M | $2.5B | Defense (DoD), NASA |
| RS Reliance, Inc. | — | $2.0B | — |
| SPCX Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | $3.0M | $1.7B | Defense (DoD), State, DHS |
| PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc. | $7.8M | $1.5B | Defense (DoD), State, HHS |
| AMTM Amentum Holdings, Inc. | $370.0K | $1.5B | DHS, Defense (DoD), NASA |
| BAH Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation | $2.4M | $1.4B | General Services Administration, VA, Defense (DoD), DHS + 1 more |
| BP BP p.l.c. | $5.0M | $1.4B | Defense (DoD) |
| TPC Tutor Perini Corporation | — | $1.3B | — |
| ACN Accenture plc | $3.1M | $1.1B | Energy, Treasury, Education, Defense (DoD) + 6 more |
| GE GE Aerospace | $3.5M | $1.1B | Defense (DoD) |
| COR Cencora, Inc. | $4.0M | $890.2M | — |
| CACI CACI International, Inc. | $680.0K | $889.7M | — |
| OSK Oshkosh Corporation | $2.1M | $752.1M | Defense (DoD) |
| SAIC Science Applications International Corporation | $1.9M | $717.0M | Defense (DoD), Transportation, General Services Administration |
| GEO Geo Group Inc (The) REIT | $1.4M | $654.3M | DHS, Justice |
| TXT Textron Inc. | $6.1M | $635.1M | Defense (DoD), Transportation |
| AVAV AeroVironment, Inc. | $720.0K | $605.9M | Defense (DoD) |
| HON Honeywell International Inc. | $6.2M | $562.9M | Defense (DoD), DHS, Transportation, NASA |
| GVA Granite Construction Incorporated | $160.0K | $550.4M | — |
| MPC Marathon Petroleum Corporation | $3.4M | $542.0M | Defense (DoD) |
| PSX Phillips 66 | $7.7M | $537.1M | Defense (DoD) |
| VLO Valero Energy Corporation | $1.7M | $479.8M | — |
| TKR Timken Company | $206.0K | $401.2M | Defense (DoD), Commerce |
| CVX Chevron Corporation | $7.9M | $391.9M | Defense (DoD) |
| ESLT Elbit Systems Ltd. | — | $364.3M | — |
| IBM International Business Machines Corporation | $2.4M | $354.6M | Defense (DoD), Treasury, DHS, State |
| PRM Perimeter Group Inc. | $900.0K | $345.9M | Agriculture, Interior |
| FDX FedEx Corporation | $12.6M | $345.3M | Transportation |
| HII Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. | $5.1M | $339.5M | Defense (DoD) |
| J Jacobs Solutions Inc. | $750.0K | $320.7M | Transportation, Environmental Protection Agency |
| KBR KBR, Inc. | $498.2K | $292.4M | — |
| VVX V2X, Inc. | $300.0K | $265.9M | — |
| NPK National Presto Industries, Inc. | — | $260.1M | — |
| ICFI ICF International, Inc. | $130.0K | $240.2M | HHS, Transportation, DHS |
| CXW CoreCivic, Inc. | $2.0M | $236.2M | DHS |
| MSI Motorola Solutions, Inc. | $2.1M | $232.3M | Justice, Defense (DoD), DHS |
| TSN Tyson Foods, Inc. | $2.3M | $225.2M | Agriculture |
| PH Parker-Hannifin Corporation | $710.0K | $219.5M | Defense (DoD) |
| CR Crane Company | — | $215.3M | — |
| TDG Transdigm Group Incorporated | $950.0K | $211.7M | Defense (DoD) |
| VSEC VSE Corporation | — | $205.2M | — |
The first 50 of 1,415 companies with either, in the order of the column you sort by. Open a company for its year-by-year table. Updated Nov 15, 2026, 8:32 AM EST.
Lobbying and contract awards are reported separately; showing them together does not mean one caused the other. Last 12 months: lobbying covers the four quarters that ended within the last 12 months; contracts cover awards first obligated within the last 12 months. The current year is year to date.