• Improvement and expansion of ESOP policies that were passed in Sec. 874 of FY2022 NDAA. Provision for sole source procurement for follow on contracts through Department of Defense for businesses wholly owned through an employee stock ownership plan.

Duration: November 1, 2017 to present

General Issues: Small Business, Government Issues, Defense

Spending: about $1,910,000 (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, Defense - Dept of (DOD), Army - Dept of (Other), Air Force - Dept of, Natl Guard, Navy - Dept of, Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Defense Logistics Agency, Small Business Administration (SBA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB)