• - contact with TARDEC to discuss sponsorship of program in potential Rapid Innovation Program (RIP) - followup for FY2011 appropriations request for fuel efficiency
• - followup for request in FY2011 Defense Appropriations Bill for diesel fuel catalyst project with Army Research Lab - inquiry into support for Rapid Innovation Program funding

Duration: October 1, 2009 to October 31, 2010

General Issues: Defense, Budget/Appropriations, Energy/Nuclear, Transportation

Spending: about $140,000 (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: Army - Dept of (Other) , U.S. Senate, Defense - Dept of (DOD), House of Representatives, Army - Dept of (Other), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Army - Dept of (Other) ,, House of Representatives,, U.S. Senate,, Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)