Amy Mehlman

Amy Mehlman, Vice President of Government Affairs and Policy at Viasat, is a government relations veteran with over twenty years of experience representing companies before Congress, Federal Agencies and the Executive Branch. Amy specializes in telecommunications policy, beginning her career working with leading satellite/broadcast companies as Congress wrote the historic Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the Internet bubble transformed the marketplace. Amy is also familiar with the needs and priorities of presidential transitions, having served on the FCC transition team in 2000.

publications

Science Policy

day one project

Policy Memo

Averting Environmental Risks in the New Space Age

Space is at risk of developing the equivalent of the ocean’s “drifting island of plastic.” Unless we act now, we may find that, as with climate change, we wish we had acted much sooner.

03.16.21 | 14 min read

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