Government Relations

Navigators Global’s government relations practice provides corporations, trade associations, and coalitions with strategic counsel and sustained advocacy on the legislative and regulatory matters that most affect their interests. We work with clients to define clear objectives, identify the policymakers and processes that will determine the outcome, and carry out a disciplined strategy to achieve it.

Our veteran Republican lobbyists have served at the most senior levels of the White House, Congress, and the executive branch. That experience gives us a practical understanding of how federal policy is developed, negotiated, and enacted. It informs the counsel we provide at every stage of the process.

Senior principals lead and actively manage every engagement. Clients get direct access to experienced professionals, along with an integrated approach that draws on the firm’s government relations, strategic communications, and issues management capabilities.

The telecommunications sector operates within a demanding and continually evolving federal regulatory framework. Navigators Global advises clients across the industry on legislative and regulatory matters before the Federal Communications Commission, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and Congress.

Our team combines substantive policy expertise with established relationships at the agencies and on the committees of jurisdiction. We help clients anticipate regulatory developments, state their positions persuasively, and engage policymakers where decisions are made. Where appropriate, we pair government relations with strategic communications to keep the message consistent across every audience.

The Navigators Global National Security and Defense practice brings together former senior military officers, congressional staff, and executive branch officials. Their careers span the Department of Defense, the Department of State, U.S. Special Operations Command, and the House and Senate Armed Services and Intelligence Committees.

We give clients a comprehensive assessment of the policy and congressional environment to inform business development and long-term strategy. Our team develops tailored plans for the National Defense Authorization Act and the annual defense appropriations process. We also engage proactively with the Pentagon, the White House, and the broader Administration on defense, foreign policy, space, and national security priorities.

Federal energy policy shapes investment decisions, operating conditions, and long-term strategy across the sector. Navigators Global represents clients throughout the energy industry, providing policy monitoring, direct advocacy, and communications counsel.

Our principals have held senior positions in the White House and Congress and bring decades of combined experience on energy issues. We maintain strong working relationships with policymakers at the Department of Energy, the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. We help clients engage those decision-makers with clarity and credibility.

Navigators Global advises clients across the financial services sector on the federal policy matters that affect their operations, their customers, and their long-term growth. We represent clients before the Department of the Treasury, the federal financial regulators, the House Financial Services Committee, and the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee.

Our approach combines direct engagement with Congress and the Administration with targeted media relations, public opinion research, and issue advertising. The firm also has extensive experience building and leading industry coalitions, organizing stakeholders around common policy objectives and directing their advocacy on Capitol Hill and within the Administration.

Navigators Global represents a broad cross-section of the health care sector on federal legislative and regulatory matters. Our work spans Capitol Hill and the Department of Health and Human Services and its agencies, where we help clients engage on the policies and regulations that shape their business.

Our team has been actively engaged in major health care policy debates for more than two decades. That experience allows us to provide informed counsel on complex policy questions and to position clients effectively with Congress, the Administration, and the broader policy community.

The insurance industry operates within a complex and evolving federal policy environment. Navigators Global provides clients throughout the sector with strategic counsel and direct access to the policymakers who shape federal insurance policy.

Our team’s experience includes senior roles on Capitol Hill and in industry leadership, which gives us a thorough understanding of both the business of insurance and the policy process. We have organized and led industry coalitions on significant federal issues, and we continue to advise clients as the policy landscape evolves.

Navigators Global brings extensive policy, legislative, and lobbying experience to federal tax matters. We advise clients on tax legislation and policy developments, helping them assess the implications for their business and engage effectively when it matters most.

Our principals have served in senior roles in the White House, on Capitol Hill, and in the business community. They have direct experience developing and enacting major tax legislation. We maintain strong relationships with the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, the Joint Committee on Taxation, and the Department of the Treasury.

Technology is increasingly central to federal policy debates, from data and cybersecurity to the rapid growth of artificial intelligence. Navigators Global provides clients across the sector with lobbying, strategic counsel, and policy expertise, and represents them before Congress and the Administration.

Our team includes former senior congressional staff with direct experience drafting and advancing technology legislation. That background gives clients a clear understanding of both the substance of technology policy and the legislative dynamics that shape it.

Navigators Global has an extensive record of advancing tribal priorities at the federal and state levels. We work with our clients to engage champions in Congress and the Administration, build support for their objectives, and mobilize resources behind the issues that matter most to their communities.

We work at every stage of the legislative and regulatory process, from preparing congressional testimony and monitoring legislation to working directly with the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and the Department of the Interior.

Navigators Global has planned, executed, and hosted some of Washington’s most prestigious events. Our capabilities range from intimate gatherings to large-scale functions, and we bring the experience and resources needed to deliver events of the highest quality.

Our Washington, D.C., office is an ideal setting for catered receptions, roundtable discussions, industry and policy luncheons, and private dinners, each tailored to the specific needs of the client.