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SpaceX: $7.87B in Pentagon contracts

SpaceX ranks 31 of 35 on this page by Department of Defense contract dollars in FY2021–26, and received $15.36B from all federal agencies.

$7.87B

Pentagon contracts, FY2021–26

obligations, all subsidiaries listed below

$15.36B

All federal contracts, FY2021–26

every agency, Pentagon included

$3.2M

PAC to candidates, 2019–26

House and Senate candidates on the ballot

$16M

Lobbying, 2021–26

reported to the Senate

Pentagon contract dollars by fiscal year

Obligations, the money the Pentagon committed in each year ending September 30. A big multiyear award lands in the year it is signed.
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
FY26
  • FY2021$564M
  • FY2022$759M
  • FY2023$856M
  • FY2024$1.81B
  • FY2025$1.65B
  • FY2026$2.23B

What its PAC gave

Checks to House and Senate candidates on the ballot, by election cycle.
  • 2025–2689% to Republicans, 11% to Democrats · PAC page$1.3M
  • 2023–2459% to Republicans, 41% to Democrats · PAC page$908K
  • 2021–2249% to Republicans, 51% to Democrats · PAC page$596K
  • 2019–2045% to Republicans, 55% to Democrats · PAC page$441K

What it spent lobbying

Filed as SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP.; SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION; SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES.
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$16M in 2021–26. Yellow bars are election years. 2026 covers the quarters filed so far.

Who its PAC funded most, 2025–26

27% of its $1.3M in checks went to members of the committees that set defense spending (highlighted). The other big PACs sent 16% to the same members.
  1. John CarterTX-31House Appropriations, Defense$15,000
  2. John MoolenaarMI-02$15,000
  3. Randy WeberTX-14$15,000
  4. Kurt AlmeMT-SEN$12,500
  5. Aaron FlintMT-01$10,000
  6. Abraham HamadehAZ-08House Armed Services$10,000
  7. Andrew ClydeGA-09$10,000
  8. Anna Paulina LunaFL-13$10,000
  9. Ashley MoodyFL-SEN-SPECIALSenate Armed Services$10,000
  10. August PflugerTX-11$10,000
  11. Ben ClineVA-06$10,000
  12. Beth Van DuyneTX-24$10,000

Share to defense committees: 27%.

Former government officials lobbying for it

4 lobbyists in Senate filings who list SpaceX as a client reported an earlier job in Congress or the executive branch.

  • Paul ArcangeliFormer congressional staff

    House Armed Services committee: Staff Dir. (2019-2022), Minority Staff Dir. (2011-2019), Staff Dir. (2009-2011), Deputy Staff Dir. (2008-2009), Professional …

    Reported clients: RTX Corporation And Affiliates (Defense contractors), Scale, Carrot Fertility, Metrea Management LLC and 7 more · via Invariant LLC

  • Noah KowalskiFormer congressional staff

    Legislative Correspondence Manager, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (2012-2014) · worked for Kirsten Gillibrand

    Reported clients: Marriott International, INC. (Agriculture, food and retail), The Home Depot (Agriculture, food and retail), Gotenna, Icon Technology, INC. (Tech and AI) and 6 more · via Invariant LLC

  • Mary StantonFormer congressional staff

    Leg. Asst, Sen. Kohl (2006-2007); Policy Adv, Sen. Aging Comm. (2004-2006); Leg. Asst, Rep. Weiner (2004); Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Kohl (2003-2004); Staff A… · worked for Herbert Kohl, Anthony Weiner, Richard Gephardt

    Reported clients: RTX Corporation And Affiliates (Defense contractors), National Association Of Realtors (Real estate and construction), The Home Depot (Agriculture, food and retail), The American Council Of Life Insurers (Insurance) and 5 more · via Invariant LLC

  • Samual LoveFormer congressional staff

    Sen. Cory Gardner: Legislative Assistant (2015-2021); Legislative Aide/Director of Correspondence (2015); Rep. Cory Gardner: Legislative Aide/Legislative Cor… · worked for Cory Gardner

    Reported clients: Apple INC. (Tech and AI), Charter Communications INC. (Telecom and media), Premise, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (Tech and AI) and 1 more · via Invariant LLC

Names it receives contracts under

USAspending recipient names counted for this company. Joint ventures with other firms are left out.

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP.; SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP

Sources: USAspending.gov: contract obligations by parent company (award types A–D); FEC: PAC contributions to candidates (pas2 bulk files); Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (lda.gov REST API); Committee rosters: the congress-legislators project. Contracts are obligations (money the government committed) in fiscal years ending September 30, summed over each company's own recipient records in USAspending by name, including subsidiaries listed on its page; joint ventures are left out so no contract is counted twice. PAC totals are checks from the company's own PAC to candidates on the ballot, as on this site's PAC pages; a company whose PAC gave under $100,000 in a cycle shows none for that cycle. Lobbying uses the same reconciliation as the Lobbying pages. Committee seats from the congress-legislators project's current roster (119th Congress). Contracts, PAC checks and lobbying are all legal and publicly reported. This page shows them side by side; it does not claim that any gift or lobbying won a contract. Built 2026-11-05.