• Request funding from the Congress in the FY2010 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill to develop manufacturing technologies to lower the costs of manuacturing LED energy sources.

Duration: November 1, 2007 to December 31, 2009

General Issues: Energy/Nuclear, Defense

Spending: about $190,000 (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, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Army - Dept of (Other), Energy - Dept of, Army - Dept of (Other) , Air Force - Dept of, Defense - Dept of (DOD), Y Y Department of the Air Force Defense Advanced Research and Projects Agency