US Department of Defense

Leadership & Staff

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Pete Hegseth Trump defense secretary nominee, Chairman/Co-Founder Of Vets For Freedom

• Secretary (Jan '25→?)

Andrew Snowdon Counsel to the Inspector General, National Security Agency

• Counsel to the Inspector General (Nov '15→?)

Kathleen Hicks Biden Deputy Secretary of Defense

• Deputy Secretary

Robert P Storch Biden DOD IG, Trump NSA IG

• Inspector general (Dec '22→?)

Spencer P Boyer Widely published on foreign affairs matters.

• Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense

Sean O’Donnell Trump-appointed EPA and DOD Inspector General

• Acting Inspector General (Apr 6 '20→?)

Lt. Gen. John N.T. “Jack” Shanahan US Air Force general

• Director for Defense Intelligence (Aug '15→?)

Katrina G McFarland Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acquisition) (ASD(A))

• Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acquisition)

Douglas Macgregor Trump nominee to be Ambassador to Germany

• Senior Advisor to the Acting Secretary of Defense (Nov '20→?)

Kevin Fahey Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acquisition)

• Assistant Secretary for Acquisition (Feb 17 '18→?)

Donors

Ateios Systems Battery tech company incubated at UCSD Qualcomm Institute

• Donation/Grant · 2,400,000 USD ('23)

Arches: Autonomous resilient cognitive heterogeneous swarm DoD research

• research on swarms of ai and human collaboration for military attack · 83,587 USD ('17→'19)

Andrew Harris Cybersecurity expert;  DOD cybersecurity operators; Microsoft Whistleblower

• scholarship

CREATE Stem Education Initiative at UCSD promotes K-12 Stem Education

• Donation/Grant

Donations

University of California San Diego

• Marine Robotics Testbed · 20,340,276 USD

Tor Project Volunteer Run Encrypted Online Communication System

• Grant Funding · 2,210,074 USD ('11→'13)

Brookings Institute Major Washington think tank

• Donation · 100,000 USD ('09)

Center for Internet Security

• Donation/Grant

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Division of Bloomberg School of Public Health

• Funder

CareerWise Colorado Swiss Apprenticeship Model Program

• Funder

Holdings

Advanced Distributed Learning E-Learning Initiative US Department of Defense and Department of Education

• Owner

Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation A United States Department of Defense school located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia

• Owner

Child Organizations

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US Department of Defense

• Child Org

Department of the Army

• Child Org

Department of the Navy

• Child Org

United States Air Force One of the military departments within the Department of Defense

• Child Org

United States Africa Command One of six of the U.S. Defense Department's geographic combatant commands

• Child Org

FVAP Federal Voting Assistance Program

• a program

United States Transportation Command Air, land and sea transportation for the U.S. Department of Defense

• Child Org

Joint Chiefs of Staff A body of senior uniformed leaders in the US Department of Defense which advises the US President, the Secretary of Defense, the Homeland Security Council & the NSC on military matters.

• subordinate unit

Virginia Contracting Activity

• Child Org

Defense Threat Reduction Agency

• Child Org

Parents

US Department of Defense

• Parent Org

Executive Branch Led by the president and vice president

• Parent Org

Members

U.S.-Israel Operations Technology Working Group (OTWG)

• Member

Memberships

Career Pathways Program US government program created and run by 13 federal departments

• Member

Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research, Education and Training UND drone research program

• Partner

Health Care Delivery Policy Program Healthcare executive discussion group at the Harvard Kennedy School

• Policy Group member

Services & Transactions

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Air Transport Services Group American aviation holding company: air cargo transportation, related services to domestic and foreign air carriers and other companies that outsource their air cargo

• supplier

Dell Inc Computer company

• Service/Transaction · 2,500,000,000 USD

Peraton, Inc. Privately held American national security and technology company formed in 2017

• contractor · 979,000,000 USD (Aug 11 '21→?)

Southwest Valley Constructors Construction firm with border wall contract; based in Albuquerque, New Mexico; subsidiary of Kiewit Corporation

• Contractor for AZ border wall · 646,000,000 USD (May 15 '19→Nov 5 '20)

SLSCO Galveston, Texas; formerly Sullivan Land Services

• Contracor, El Paso border wall · 389,999,999 USD (Apr 9 '19→Nov 1 '20)

Barnard Construction Co. Montana-based construction company; hired to build border wall in New Mexico

• Contractor, Arizona border fence (33 miles) · 380,942,093 USD (Nov 13 '18→Mar 14 '20)

ApiJect

• contractor · 138,000,000 USD (May '20→?)

Puritan Medical Products Medical swab manufacturer; only U.S. COVID-19 test swab company

• contractor · 75,500,000 USD (Apr 29 '20→?)*

National Instruments Provides systems to engineers and scientists. Revenues are $1 billion.

• vendor · 54,794,501 USD

Kiewit Infrastructure West Co Kiewit Corporation is an employee-owned Fortune 500 contractor based in Omaha, Nebraska. Privately held, it is one of the largest construction and engineering organizations in North America.

• contractor · 42,800,000 USD [+1]

• contractor · 42,800,000 USD

Lobbied By

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Pete Rose Defense lobbyist; The Franklin Partnership

• Lobbying (for client) ('00→'08)

Hogan & Hartson LLP

• Lobbying (for client) ('02→'07)

Marshall A Brachman Attorney, Lobbyist; President for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee

• Lobbying (for client) ('99)

Centrus Energy Corp. Supplier of enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power plants

• Direct Lobbying ('03)

Delta Air Lines, Inc. Atlanta, GA based airline

• Direct Lobbying ('04)

Aon plc Risk management, insurance and reinsurance brokerage holding company incorporated in Ireland

• Direct Lobbying ('07)

William B Driggers

• Lobbying (for client) ('00)

Motorola Solutions, Inc. Mission-critical communications products and services to enterprises and governments.

• Direct Lobbying ('99→'08)

Robert Ernest Andrews Lobbyist | former US Representative from New Jersey

• Lobbying (for client)

Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates Since 1981, Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates has helped Fortune 500 companies, trade associations and other clients impact public policy as Washington’s top full service government affairs fir

• Lobbying (for client) ('01→'05)

Miscellaneous Relationships

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Frank Zappa Rock musician

• child of employee

Mark Hoppus Founding member of the pop punk band Blink-182

• child of employee

DJI Innovations Drone manufacturer

• sanctioned by

BGI Genomics BGI Genomics BGI Genomics is one of the world’s largest DNA sequencing service providers.

• sanctioned by

Global Resource Systems LLC In January 2021 claimed nearly 175 million IP addresses owned by the Pentagon

• Affiliation

Center for the Digital Future

• Affiliation

Shane Pase Futurist and Behavioral Scientist

• Consultant*

Connecting Classrooms To STEM Careers ReadyNation / Mission Readiness White Paper K12 Cyber

• Stakeholder ('18→?)*

Operation Warp Speed Trump coronavirus vaccine effort

• Affiliation

Universal Learner Record Project of DoD Advanced Distributed Learning

• Project of ('18→?)*