• Monitor Defense S&T R&D policy, acquisitions, and appropriations.
• Monitoring and advise on Science and Technology, Research and Development issues in homeland security space.
• Congressional Outreach to officials on FY09 Defense Appropriations Bill and legislative monitoring of FY09 Defense Appropriations Bill.

Duration: November 1, 2007 to November 14, 2008

General Issues: Defense, Homeland Security, Budget/Appropriations

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 2007: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Defense - Dept of (DOD), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Y Y Department of Defense; House of Representatives; Senate