The Politics of Contracting - TRW
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(NOTE: On December 12, 2002, TRW was acquired by Northrop Grumman.)
| Money Spent by TRW to Influence Decisions and Secure Future Federal Contracts 1997 through 2002 |
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|
YEAR |
TOTAL Campaign Contributions |
INDIVIDUAL Contributions |
PAC Contributions |
SOFT MONEY** Contributions |
LOBBYING Expenditures |
CONTRACT AWARDS
(from U.S. Gov't) |
|
2002 |
$602,608
|
$31,668
|
$489,890
|
$81,050
|
$447,682
|
$2,139,542,000
|
| 2001* |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
$952,000
|
$2,616,546,000
|
| 2000 |
$534,328
|
$60,722
|
$275,174
|
$198,425
|
$1,120,000
|
$3,007,446,000
|
| 1999* |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
$1,053,500
|
$2,498,627,000
|
| 1998 |
$504,030
|
$44,517
|
$263,513
|
$196,000
|
$1,360,000
|
$1,634,728,000
|
| 1997* |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
$1,360,000
|
$1,620,895,000
|
|
TOTALS
|
$1,640,966
|
$136,907
|
$1,028,577
|
$475,475
|
$6,293,182
|
$13,517,784,000
|
*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.
|
Senior Government Officials
Turned Current & Former Company Executives for TRW 1997 through 2003 |
| Lt. General Roger DeKok, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), Former Vice Commander of Air Force Space Command |
|
Lt. General Otto J. Guenther, U.S. Army (Ret.), Former U.S. Army Chief Information Officer |
|
Lt. Colonel Jim Myers, M.D., U.S. Air Force (Ret.), Former Director of Advanced Concepts Directorate and Advanced Technologies Directorate for the Missile Defense Agency |
| Philip A. Odeen, Chairman of the National Defense Panel, Former Member of the Defense Science Board, Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis, Former Director of Defense and Arms Control Staff for the National Security Council |
|
Senior Government Officials
Turned Current & Former Board Directors for TRW 1997 through 2003 |
| Michael Armacost, Former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs |
| Martin Feldstein, Former Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers |
| Robert M. Gates, Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency |
| Lynn M. Martin, Former Secretary of Labor |
| Paul H. O'Neill, Former Secretary of the Treasury |
|
Senior Government Officials
Turned Current & Former Registered Company Lobbyists for TRW 1997 through 2003 |
| Former Sen. J. Bennett Johnston (D-LA) (Johnston & Associates) |
|
Firms Registered to Lobby for TRW
1997 through 2003 |
| Advocacy Group Amitay, Morris J. Edington, Peel & Associates Edington, Wade & Associates Fleischman & Walsh Franzel, Brent Johnston & Associates Legislaw Multinational Business Services Inc. Patton Boggs Shaw, Pittman et al. Spectrum Group Verner, Liipfert et al. Washington Council, Ernst & Young |
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.
