Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF
14 filings
$880K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 8800119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20271 filingthrough 2026
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Erskine W WellsBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Dep COS Sen. Wicker; COS Rep. Palazzo; Leg Asst Sen Wicker; Intern Sen. Cochran10 filingsthrough 2025
Pete LandrumBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Senior Defense Policy Advisor Sen. Session10 filingsthrough 2025
Joel D. BaileyBgr Government AffairsCovered position: COS Rep. Panetta; LD Rep. Ashford; LD Rep. Matheson; Sr. LA Rep. Matsui; LA, Sr. LA Rep. Baron Hill; Intern Rep. Rahall10 filingsthrough 2025
Dan GreenwoodBgr Government Affairs Deputy Asst. to the President for Leg Affairs; Sr. Dir. for Leg. Affairs National Security Council; Dir. USMC Cong. Liaison (House); USMC Officer
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: blacksea-technologies.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
Covered position:
10 filingsthrough 2025
Brian BallardBallard Partners4 filingsthrough 2026
Thomas BoodryBallard PartnersCovered position: Intern, Sen.Bill Cassidy, Sept2017-Jan2021; LA, Sen.Marco Rubio, Jan2018-Jan2021; LD, Rep.Tony Gonzales, Jan2021-Nov2022; LD, Rep.Mike Waltz Nov2022-Jan2025; Spec.Asst. to President Donald Trump & Sen.Dir. for Leg. Affairs,WH,NSC,Jan2025-April20254 filingsthrough 2026
Micah KetchelBallard PartnersCovered position: Senior Advisor, State Dept. 2025; Special Assistant to the President & Senior Advisor to the NSA, White House 2025;Chief of Staff, US Rep. Mike Waltz 2019-2025;Counsel, House Vet. Affairs Comm. 2011-2012;Staff Assistant, House Vet. Affairs Comm.20114 filingsthrough 2026
Alex GalloBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Prof. Staff Member, House Armed Services Committee; Intern, Rep. Marge Roukema4 filingsthrough 2025
Tristan WhitakerBgr Government AffairsCovered position: N/A4 filingsthrough 2025
Neil MckiernanAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Chief of Staff to Joe Courtney3 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 9 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
