• CoAspire is advocating for two Congressional adds in the FY25 NDAA and FY25 Defense Appropriations Act process. Both are for Digital Engineering software. One is for the Navy's Aegis Surface Warfare program and the other is for the Army's AvMC command for their Future Vertical Lift Advanced Technology program. Both are RDT&E requests and numerous House and Senate offices are being engaged for both requests.

Duration: July 15, 2015 to present

General Issues: Defense

Spending: about $640,000 (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 2015: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Army - Dept of (Other), Navy - Dept of, Air Force - Dept of