• Educating decision makers about this company and their products and services, specifically digital photo imaging.

Duration: July 10, 2008 to December 31, 2009

General Issues: Homeland Security

Spending: about $110,000 (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 2008: Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), Natl Security Agency (NSA), Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress (LOC), Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA), Natl Park Service (NPS), Energy - Dept of, Education - Dept of, Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Interior - Dept of (DOI), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)