Lobbying in Virginia
12 organizations headquartered in Virginia with federal lobbying disclosures.
Organizations HQ'd in Virginia
Northrop Grumman
Defense & Aerospace · 7 policy areas · 42 lobbyists
Boeing Company
Defense & Aerospace · 8 policy areas · 41 lobbyists
Raytheon Technologies
Defense & Aerospace · 7 policy areas · 41 lobbyists
General Dynamics
Defense & Aerospace · 6 policy areas · 26 lobbyists
National Rifle Association
Trade Association · 6 policy areas · 19 lobbyists
Altria Group
Tobacco · 5 policy areas · 12 lobbyists
BAE Systems
Defense & Aerospace · 4 policy areas · 12 lobbyists
Leidos
Defense & Aerospace · 4 policy areas · 9 lobbyists
Huntington Ingalls Industries
Defense & Aerospace · 4 policy areas · 7 lobbyists
Dominion Energy
Energy & Natural Resources · 5 policy areas · 6 lobbyists
Capital One Financial
Finance & Banking · 5 policy areas · 5 lobbyists
Smithfield Foods
Agriculture & Food · 5 policy areas · 3 lobbyists
Frequently Asked Questions
LobbySpend tracks 12 organizations headquartered in Virginia with combined federal lobbying spending of $334.0M over the reporting period.
Northrop Grumman leads lobbying spending in Virginia with $62.9M in total reported expenditures, earning an Influence Score of B.
Organizations headquartered in Virginia lobby on 28 different policy areas. 59 registered lobbyists have former government positions (revolving door connections).
For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from the Senate Lobbying Disclosure Office LD-2 filings. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
Every number on this page links back to the Senate Lobbying Disclosure Office LD-2 filings; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. lobbying activity. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.
Source: U.S. Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act database, 2026.