• educating legislative and executive branches on effective technologies and policies for interagency sharing of law enforcement and homeland security information.

Duration: January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2010

General Issues: Science/Technology

Spending: about $40,000 (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 2009: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Defense - Dept of (DOD)