Government & Political Science Intern: a project built for this posting

Company

United Launch Alliance

Posting title

Government & Political Science Internship - Summer 2027

Location

Arlington, VA

Season

Summer 2027

Majors named

Political Science, Public Policy

Checked open on the employer's careers site on 2026-10-16. Read the full posting ↗

What this role is really testing

The project

ULA Legislative Landscape One-Pager & Stakeholder Briefing Deck

A polished two-part document package, a one-page executive brief and a short PowerPoint deck, analyzing a current legislative issue directly affecting the commercial launch industry (e.g., domestic launch competition, space defense appropriations, or FAA launch licensing reform). This maps directly to the role because it demonstrates exactly what a Government & Political Science intern would produce when supporting senior staff preparing for Hill meetings or internal leadership briefings.

1. Research one active or recent bill, policy debate, or congressional hearing relevant to commercial space launch or national security space (examples: Space Launch Competition Act, defense authorization provisions for launch services, or FAA reauthorization affecting commercial launch licensing). Use congress.gov, committee hearing transcripts, and CRS summaries to identify the bill's status, key congressional sponsors, and two to three opposing stakeholder positions. Write a one-page executive brief in Word using a clean professional template: include a two-sentence issue summary, a 'Why It Matters to ULA' box, a bullet-point breakdown of supporters vs. opponents, and a recommended outreach priority.
2. Build a five-to-seven slide PowerPoint deck formatted as an internal stakeholder briefing. Slide 1: title and issue headline. Slide 2: legislative background and current status. Slide 3: key players, relevant committees, sponsor bios in two lines each, allied industry groups. Slide 4: risk and opportunity analysis for a company like ULA (cost, competition, mission impact). Slide 5: recommended government affairs actions (who to contact, what message to carry). Slide 6: a one-paragraph talking-points script a lobbyist could use in a five-minute congressional office visit. Use ULA's actual brand colors (navy and orange) and logo pulled from their public press kit to make the deck look native to the organization.
3. Add a one-page appendix to the Word brief titled 'Stakeholder Map', a simple table with four columns: Stakeholder Name, Role/Title, Known Position on the Issue, and Suggested Engagement Tactic. Populate it with eight to ten real named contacts drawn from public sources (committee chairs, ranking members, trade association leads such as the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, and relevant executive branch offices such as the Office of Space Commerce). Export both documents to PDF so a recruiter can open them instantly, and organize them in a single shared folder with a plain-English README note explaining the scenario and your research approach.

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Questions

Do I need to know how to code?

No. For roles like this one, Provieo builds the project as a live case-study page: slides, tables and findings you fill in. You bring the thinking.

Where did this project come from?

Provieo read the United Launch Alliance posting and generated it on 2026-10-16. If you paste the same posting yourself you may get a different project, so two applicants don't show up with the same one.

Is Provieo connected to United Launch Alliance?

No. This is an independent project idea based on a public posting. It does not guarantee an interview.