• Reform US Government procurement contract law to enhance US Government Cybersecurity. Royce bill on cyber security. U.S. Representatives Ed Royce (R-CA) and Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) introduced H.R. 5793, the "Cyber Supply Chain Management and Transparency Act of 2014." The legislation will ensure all contractors of software, firmware or products to the federal government provide the procuring agency with a bill of materials of all third party and open source components used, and demonstrate that those component versions have no known vulnerabilities.

Duration: April 1, 2014 to August 25, 2015

General Issues: Computer Industry, Consumer Issues/Safety/Protection, Homeland Security, Science/Technology

Spending: about $0 (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 2014: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), General Services Administration (GSA), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Natl Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), Treasury - Dept of