• Continuation and expansion of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Minority, Women and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (M/W/DBE) program, the FAA Airport DBE and Airport Concession DBE (ACDBE) program. Protecting airport funding streams for the Airport DBE and ACDBE program during the FAA reauthorization process. FAA ACDBE program size rules. Issues relating to number of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Security Identification Display Area (SIDA)that an airport can grant to a small business. Establishing predicate evidence for the continuation of the FAA Airport DBE and ACDBE programs. Pursuing modifications to the treatment of rental car companies under the ACDBE program.

Duration: January 1, 2011 to October 31, 2014

General Issues: Aviation/Aircraft/Airlines, Homeland Security, Small Business

Spending: about $320,000 (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 2011: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA),, Small Business Adminstration (SBA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), White House Office