National Security Capital, LLC (Formerly Ajl Advisory LLC)
Maryland
17 filings from 1 registrant · 2022–2026 · latest filed May 18, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$210K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$210K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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
6 filings
$210K 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. 2670118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20242 filingsthrough 2023
S. 2226118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20242 filingsthrough 2023
Michele PearceCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Staff Lead, Subcmte on Readiness, House Armed Services Committee; Senior Defense Advisor, U.S. Senator Susan Collins; Deputy General Counsel, Legislation, Department of Defense; Acting General Counsel and Principal Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Army7 filingsthrough 2023
William WichtermanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Special Assistant to President Bush (2008-2009); Sr. Policy Advisor, Senate Majority Leader Frist (2003-2005); Chief of Staff, Rep. Joseph Pitts (1997-2002); Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Baker (1994 -1997)5 filingsthrough 2023
Gabriel NevilleCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Representative Joe Pitts, Chief of Staff, Communications Director, and Special Assistant2 filingsthrough 2023
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: national-security-capital-llc-formerly-ajl-advisory-llc.
117th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023
H.R. 7776117th CongressJames M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20231 filingthrough 2022
H.R. 8236117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20231 filingthrough 2022
S. 4543117th CongressJames M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20231 filingthrough 2022
S. 4663117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20231 filingthrough 2022
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.
Layth Sami ElhassaniCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: White House Off. Leg. Aff., Sp. Assist. to the President; Off. of Sen. Bennet, Leg. Dir.; House Comm. on Small Business, Oversight Counsel; Off. of Rep. Velazquez, Leg. Dir.; Off. of Sen. Cantwell, Leg. Counsel; Off. of Sen. Hollings, Legal Counsel2 filingsthrough 2023
Stephanie BarnaCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: General Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Manpower and Reserve Affairs2 filingsthrough 2023
Howard BermanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Member, United States House of Representatives1 filingthrough 2023
John Byron MinorCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Legislative Aide, Policy and Projects Aide, and Staff Assistant, Sen. Kay Hagan; Staff Assistant, Rep. Jim Marshall1 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 7 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
