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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF
68 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
2 filings
$60K 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 — 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. 2647111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 8800119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Michael HersonAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Spec Asst to the Asst Sec of Def for Force Mgmt & Personnel75 filingsthrough 2026
Todd HarmerAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: LA to Sen Chambliss18 filingsthrough 2024
Josh MartinAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Chief of Staff to Rep Mac Thornberry, Health Policy Director to Senator Richard Burr, Legislative Director and Deputy Chief of Staff to Congressman Michael Burgess15 filingsthrough 2023
Bonnie ShindelmanAmerican Defense International
The filings
The 20 most recent of 70 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: l3-harris-formerly-l-3-technologies.
spend on filings that named this issue
1 filing
through 2026
H.R. 9495119th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20271 filingthrough 2026
H.R. 2670118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20241 filingthrough 2023
H.R. 4636118th CongressWireless Electric Vehicle Charging Grant Program Act of 20231 filingthrough 2023
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20201 filingthrough 2019
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20211 filingthrough 2020
H.R. 7617116th CongressDefense, Commerce, Justice, Science, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20211 filingthrough 2020
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.
15 filingsthrough 2012
David MyersAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: LA to Sen Domenici, Exec Asst to Sen D'Amato9 filingsthrough 2019
Neil MckiernanAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Chief of Staff to Joe Courtney, Legislative Assistant to John Larson, Staff Assistant to Linda Sanchez8 filingsthrough 2026
Matt WeinsteinAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Legislative Director to Rep Byrne, Sr LA to Rep Bonner, LA to Rep Rogers8 filingsthrough 2024
Jessica SteffensAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Professional Staff Member, House Foreign Affairs Committee6 filingsthrough 2026
Catherine EdmonsonAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Chief of Staff to Henry Cuellar6 filingsthrough 2022
HUGH JOHNSTON jrAmerican Defense InternationalCovered position: Dep Staff Director of HASC, Counsel of HASC5 filingsthrough 2009
George PhillipsAmerican Defense International1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 9 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
