• HR 2810, Fiscal Year 2018 National Defense Authorization bill, and Senate companion bill, and FY18 Department of Defense Appropriations bill; all matters relating to DDR&E and acquisition policies, and all matters relating to Small Business policies.

Duration: May 1, 2017 to January 1, 2018

General Issues: Defense, Accounting

Spending: about $15,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2017: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives