• House and Senate authorizing and appropriations committees on issue of FAA modernization, defense and security issues.

Duration: November 28, 2007 to January 3, 2017

General Issues: Aviation/Aircraft/Airlines, Defense, Homeland Security, Budget/Appropriations, Trade (Domestic & Foreign)

Spending: about $1,030,000 (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 2007: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Defense - Dept of (DOD), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), State - Dept of (DOS)

Related Foreign Entities: Thales S.A. (Neuilly sur Seine, FRA); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 100%; Thales Alenia Space S.A. (Cannes la Bocca Cd, FRA); contribution to lobbying: $60000; ownership 0%; French Republic (75355, FRA); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 20%