Administration ties
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Ties to the Trump administration
Each documented point of contact between the company, its people or its lobbyists and the administration — classed by type, including the adverse ones.
Documented items
15
Every row cited
Money & contracts
2
Equity stake, Air Force One retrofit
People & lobbyists
6
Board, former officials, firms
Adverse contacts
3
Settlement, public criticism
| Date | Who | Type | What the record shows | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | Department of Defense | Equity investment | The Pentagon took a $1 billion convertible preferred stake in the Missile Solutions business, closed in April 2026, with warrants. It is the department’s first equity investment in a contractor it also awards work to. | breakingdefense.com · washingtontechnology.com · lawfaremedia.org |
| 2025-05-01 | President / Air Force | Presidential contract | L3Harris was chosen to convert the Qatari-donated Boeing 747 into an interim Air Force One, finishing in under ten months with about 400 employees. | cnbc.com · thehill.com |
| 2025-01 | White House | Policy alignment | Trump’s Golden Dome executive order named L3Harris’s HBTSS satellite system; L3Harris and Northrop Grumman were the only companies with systems named. | breakingdefense.com |
| 2018 | Harry Harris Jr. (director) | Trump appointee on board | Harris served as Trump’s ambassador to South Korea from 2018 to January 2021 and joined the L3Harris board in December 2021. He sits on the committee that oversees lobbying and political spending. | businesswire.com · l3harris.com |
| 2018-01 | Sean Stackley (former executive) | Former official hired | Stackley was acting Navy secretary for the first seven months of the first Trump administration (a holdover from the prior administration’s acquisition post), then joined L3 and later led L3Harris’s Integrated Mission Systems segment. | defensenews.com |
| 2017-02 | William Brown (former CEO) | Advisory council | Harris CEO Brown met Trump in February 2017 and was a member of the president’s American Manufacturing Council until it was dissolved. | en.wikipedia.org |
| 2025-01-16 | Christopher Kubasik (former CEO) | Policy alignment | Kubasik wrote to the incoming Department of Government Efficiency urging procurement centralization and lighter contractor accounting rules, echoing the administration’s slogan. | semafor.com |
| 2025-03 | L3Harris executives | Policy alignment | Two executives published an essay stating that the company supports the president in setting the Golden Dome goal. | l3harris.com |
| 2026-03-06 | White House | White House meeting | L3Harris was one of seven contractors whose leaders met Trump at the White House on weapons production. | cbsnews.com |
| 2024 | Ballard Partners | Lobbyist link | Ballard is L3Harris’s state lobbyist in Florida ($310,000 in 2024) and Massachusetts ($90,000). White House chief of staff Susie Wiles worked at Ballard from 2011 to 2019 and Attorney General Pam Bondi was also a Ballard lobbyist. No record was found that either lobbied for L3Harris. | l3harris.com · citizen.org · cbsnews.com · ballardpartners.com |
| 2026 | The Nickles Group | Lobbyist link | The firm founded by former Republican senator Don Nickles is paid about $70,000 a quarter and reports contacting the White House Office for L3Harris. | congress.wiki |
| 2026-Q1 | Lauren Fish (lobbyist) | Lobbyist link | An in-house lobbyist added in 2026 lists a prior post as defense fellow to Senator Tom Cotton. | l3harris.com |
| 2025-05-22 | Department of Justice | Enforcement | The Justice Department announced a $62 million settlement of false cost-and-pricing allegations one day after the Pentagon formally accepted the Qatari jet L3Harris was to modify. | cnbc.com |
| 2026-01-07 | White House | Public criticism | Trump’s executive order on contractor buybacks and pay applied to the large defense firms as a group; the equity deal with L3Harris followed six days later. | washingtontechnology.com · finance.yahoo.com |
| 2026-11-14 | Department of Transportation | Public criticism | Secretary Sean Duffy named L3Harris as the contractor whose network work preceded the nationwide FAA ground stop, asked whether there was “incompetence,” and said the FAA was stuck with the company until a new network is built. The FAA says the cause is not established; the router maker says its equipment did not fail. See the FAA ground stop view. | cnn.com · cnbc.com · npr.org · tovima.com |