The Politics of Contracting - L3 Communications
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L-3 Communications is a contractor for the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). L-3 specializes in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems; secure communications systems; avionics and ocean products; and space and navigation products. L-3 is currently under contract with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to produce the Explosive Detection System (EDS), which screens baggage for weapons and explosives.
| Money Spent by L3 Communications to Influence Decisions and Secure Future Federal Contracts 1997 through 2004 |
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YEAR |
TOTAL Campaign Contributions |
INDIVIDUAL Contributions |
PAC Contributions |
SOFT MONEY** Contributions |
LOBBYING Expenditures |
CONTRACT AWARDS
(from U.S. Gov't) |
| 2004 |
$65,970
|
$18,970
|
$47,000
|
$0
|
NCA
|
NCA
|
| 2003* |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
$515,000
|
$2,085,737,792
|
|
2002 |
$129,700
|
$15,200
|
$89,500
|
$25,000
|
$660,000
|
$1,492,769,000
|
| 2001* |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
$618,000
|
$529,492,000
|
| 2000 |
$83,850
|
$31,100
|
$41,750
|
$11,000
|
$440,000
|
$446,363,000
|
| 1999* |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
$510,000
|
$246,656,000
|
| 1998 |
$17,100
|
$2,100
|
$5,000
|
$10,000
|
$260,000
|
$140,629,000
|
| 1997* |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
$80,000
|
NCA
|
|
TOTALS
|
$296,620
|
$67,370
|
$183,250
|
$46,000
|
$3,103,000
|
$4,941,646,792
|
*Campaign contributions are reported in two-year cycles.
** In 2002, McCain-Feingold (the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act) banned soft money contributions. The United States Supreme Court upheld the soft money ban in 2003.
NCA means Not Currently Available.
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Senior Government Officials
Turned Current & Former Company Executives for L-3 Communications 1997 through 2004 |
| Jimmie V. Adams, Former Commander-in-Chief - Pacific Air Forces - Hickam Air Force Base (Hawaii) |
| Michael Andrews, Former Chief Scientist for the U.S. Army |
| Maj. General Robert W. Drewes, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), Deputy Director for Acquisition and Commander - Defense Contract Management Command - Defense Logistics Agency |
| Vice Admiral James Blem Perkins IV, U.S. Army (Ret.), Former Commander of Military Sealift Command |
| General Robert RisCassi, U.S. Army (Ret.), Former U.S. Army Commander-in-Chief - United Nations Command / Korea, Former Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - U.S. Army Vice Chief of Staff |
| Raymond Ross II, Former Senior Military Officer in the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, Formerly in the Office of the Secretary of Defense |
| General Carl Vuono, U.S. Army (Ret.), Former Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans of the U.S. Army |
|
Senior Government Official
Turned Current & Former Board Directors for L-3 Communications 1997 through 2004 |
| General John M. Shalikashvili, U.S. Army (Ret.), Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
|
Senior Government Officials
Turned Current & Former Registered Company Lobbyists for L-3 Communications 1997 through 2004 |
| Linda Daschle, Former Deputy Administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration (Baker Donelson Bearman & Caldwell) |
| Albert Randall, Former Assistant Chief Counsel for the Federal Aviation Administration (Baker Donelson Bearman & Caldwell) |
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Firms Registered to Lobby for L-3 Communications
1997 through 2004 |
| AGC Intercontinental Baker Donelson Bourman & Caldwell Cliff Madison Government Relations Paul Magliocchetti Associates PMA Group Robinson International Thelen Reid & Priest |
POGO's list of the top 20 government contractors for FY 2002 was compiled by Government Executive magazine (Vol. 35, No. 12, August 2003, p. 24). The dollars for total, individual, political action committee, and soft money contributions, as of December 1, 2003, were provided by the Center for Responsive Politics. Lobbying expenditures were compiled by POGO from information obtained from Political Money Line and the Center for Responsive Politics. Contract award dollars from FY 1997 through FY 2002 were compiled by Government Executive magazine. In February 2004, DOD listed its top 100 contractors in FY 2003 and we provided those DOD contract award figures for completeness.
For more information about the revolving door between the government and federal contractors and about campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures, please see POGO's report "The Politics of Contracting." For more detailed information regarding misconduct by the government's top contractors, see POGO's Federal Contractor Misconduct Database and POGO's report Federal Contractor Misconduct: Failures of the Suspension and Debarment System.
