US Department of Defense

Leadership & Staff

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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→?)

Michael D. Griffin Trump nominee for Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense

• Trump nominee for Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense

Randall G. Schriver Assistant Secretary of Defense, Asian and Pacific Affairs

• Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs

Justin Mikolay special assistant at DoD; former Palantir employee

• special assistant in the secretary's front office ('17→?)

Elizabeth McGrath Deputy Chief Management Officer and Performance Improvement Officer, Department of Defense

• Deputy Chief Management Officer and Performance Improvement Officer

Donations

Brookings Institution Major Washington think tank

• Donation · 100,000 USD ('09)

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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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

Defense Logistics Agency Provide supplies and services to America's military forces worldwide.

• Child Org

Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure $10 billion DoD cloud computing contract

• Child Org

Defense Innovation Board Established in March 2016 to advise DoD on innovative tech

• advisory board (Mar '16→?)

US Central Command One of eleven (11) combatant commands in the US military

• Child Org

Parents

Executive Branch Led by the president and vice president

• Parent Org

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

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→?)*

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

Fisher Sand and Gravel construction company that won a Trump-directed wall-building contract

• contractor · 40,000,000 USD

Triple Canopy, Inc. Chicago-based private para-Military and Security Firm holding contracts with U.S. military.

• Service/Transaction · 5,700,000 USD ('21→?)

Metis Solutions defense contractor

• Service/Transaction · 550,000 USD ('21→?)

Lobbied By

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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 The leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human resource consulting and outsourcing. More than 500 offices in more than 120 countries.

• 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)

Akin Gump Large law and lobbying firm; founded by Robert Strauss in 1945

• Lobbying (for client) ('00→'08)

Miscellaneous Relationships

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→?)*

Federation for Identity and Cross-Credentialing Systems (FiXS) Coalition Advancing Interoperable Data Identity Systems

• Project ('04→?)*

iFEST 2018: Future Learning Ecosystem Federal e-Learning Science and Technology Symposium in Alexandria, VA

• Attended by ('18→?)*