BAE Systems
Coordinates: 51°16′25″N 0°46′00″W / 51.27361°N 0.7666667°W / 51.27361; -0.7666667
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Campaign Finance
$4,782,104 GivenFigures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:
- contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
- only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
- contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
- corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
- organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.
For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.
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Lobbying
$47,746,740 SpentFigures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.
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Lobbying on Behalf of BAE Systems
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Names of Lobbyists
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Firm Hired Amount BAE Systems $39,027,000 United Defense $1,159,740 Armor Holdings $315,000 -
Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
- Defense,
- Fed Budget & Appropriations,
- Transportation,
- Taxes,
- Energy & Nuclear Power,
- Government Issues,
- Homeland Security,
- Trade,
- Aerospace,
- Foreign Relations
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Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
Bill No. Title H.R.5136 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 H.R.2638 Border Infrastructure and Technology Modernizat S.3454 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 H.R.1540 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 H.R.2219 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2012 S.1253 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 H.R.5658 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 H.R.2647 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 H.R.1585 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 H.R.3326 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010
Regulations
Mentioned in 737 dockets; Submitted to 26 docketsAll data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.
Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.
Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.
Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.
The tables show occurrences of "BAE Systems" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.
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Earmarks
$56,440,000 ReceivedFigures are based on both committee earmark disclosures and on analysis of appropriations bill text. Table shows top 10 earmarks, ordered by dollar amount in the final version of the bill.
For more information, see our Earmark Methodology page.
Top Earmarks
| Fiscal Year | Amount | Description |
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| 2010 | $12,000,000 | BAE Systems: Mk 45 Mod 5 Gun Depot Overhauls |
| 2008 | $5,600,000 | BAE Systems: F-15E Squadrons -- F-15 AN/ALR-56C RWR Digital Receiver Upgrade |
| 2010 | $4,000,000 | BAE Systems: F/A-18 Countermeasures Improvement |
| 2010 | $3,840,000 | BAE Systems: Low Signature Defensive Weapon System for Surface Combatant Craft |
| 2010 | $3,000,000 | BAE Systems: MK-38 Minor Caliber Gun System |
| 2010 | $2,400,000 | BAE Systems: Common Safety System Controller |
| 2010 | $2,400,000 | BAE Systems: High Speed Digital Imaging |
| 2010 | $2,400,000 | BAE Systems: 4th Generation Wireless Exploitation |
| 2008 | $2,400,000 | BAE Systems: ASW Systems Development -- Marine Mammal Awareness, Alert and Response Systems (MMAARS) |
| 2008 | $2,400,000 | BAE Systems: Sensors and Electronic Survivability -- Network Enabled Combat Identification (CID) |
Federal Spending
82 contractsFederal grants, contracts and loans are reported by federal agencies using the FPDS and FAADS systems. The data is made available to the public at USASpending.gov. Please note that the completeness and quality of the data varies greatly by agency.
Only grants, contracts and loans with amounts over $1 million are shown.
Because company names are not reported in a standardized manner, we cannot reliably determine the company receiving the contract or award. The results shown here are based on a search for the company name. Individual records may be missed or erroneously included because of name variations. For more information, please see our federal spending methodology page.
Note: Company names in federal spending data are not standardized. The table below is included only as a sample of what is available in the data and has not been reviewed for accuracy or completeness. To investigate the data further, use the links at the bottom of the table.
| Type | Recipient Name | Year | Agency | Description | Amount |
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Bae Systems Inc | 2000 | $30,360,000 | ||
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Bae Systems Inc | 2000 | $18,020,380 | ||
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Bae Systems Inc | 2000 | $11,622,403 | ||
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Bae Systems Inc | 2000 | $9,610,968 | ||
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Bae Systems Inc | 2000 | $9,500,000 | ||
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Bae Systems Inc | 2000 | $8,142,969 | ||
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Bae Systems | 2007 | AN/UPX-41(C) BASE YEAR | $7,084,122 | |
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Bae Systems Inc | 2000 | $5,815,238 | ||
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Bae Systems | 2009 | THIS ACTION EXERCISES AND FUNDS OPTION CLINS 0301 THROUGH 0303 AND ESTABLISHES AND PROVIDES FUNDING FOR CLIN 0309 FOR TIME AND MATERIAL WORK. | $5,399,983 | |
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Bae Systems Inc | 2000 | $5,072,000 |
Contractor Misconduct
13 InstancesThis information is collected by the Project On Government Oversight from press releases, court documents, news reports and other public records. It is not meant to be an exhaustive account of all instances of federal contractor misconduct.
More information on each instance, including primary source documents, is available on POGO's site by clicking on the instance description. More information on POGO's methodology is available here.
| Misconduct Type | Hired By | Incident | Year | Disposition | Penalty |
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| Ethics | None | Foreign Corruption Global Settlement | 2010 | Pleaded Guilty | $448,123,750 |
| Import/Export | None | Defense Articles and Services Brokering Violations | 2011 | Settlement | $79,000,000 |
| Poor Contract Performance | International | HMNZS Canterbury Settlement | 2010 | Settlement | $59,000,000 |
| Environment | None | Air Quality Violations (Maricopa County, Ariz.) | 2007 | Fine | $1,200,000 |
| Labor | None | Lancashire Factory Explosion | 2010 | Pleaded Guilty | $322,000 |
| Labor | None | OSHA Violations at Sealy, Texas Facility | 2009 | Fine | $138,000 |
| Labor | None | Wales Health and Safety Breaches | 2008 | Fine | $124,543 |
| Labor | None | EEOC v. BAE Systems Simula (Age/Sex Discrimination, Retaliation) | 2009 | Settlement | $110,000 |
| Securities | None | SEC v. Wiener (Insider Trading) | 2011 | Settlement | $101,010 |
| Labor | None | EEOC v. BAE Systems (Disability Discrimination) | 2011 | Settlement | $55,000 |
EPA Violations
6 Enforcement ActionsFigures are based on data from the Environmental Protection Agency’s ECHO website. The ECHO database contains federal and state environmental enforcement actions. Data displayed here includes only those actions that began after 2000 and resulted in fines of over $1 million.
Actions where the company was the sole defendant are listed first. Actions where the company is one of multiple defendants are listed subsequently.
For more information see our EPA methodology page.
| Case Name | Defendant | Date | Locations | Amount |
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| Mckin Superfund Site | Bae Systems (Sanders Associates) (+75 others) | 2001 | Gray, Me | $20,150,000 |
| Omega Chemical Site | BAE Systems Integrated Defense Solutions Inc. (+101 others) | 2005 | Whittier, Ca | $10,147,354 |
| Aqua-Tech Environmental, Inc. (Prn) | Bae Systems (+169 others) | 2006 | Greer, Sc | $9,170,528 |
| Old Southington Landfill | Bae Systems Info & Electronics Systems Integration (+85 others) | 2009 | Southington, Ct | $4,248,450 |
| Abb, Inc. Et Al (Spectron Deminimis Settlement) | Bae Systems Aerospace Electronics, Inc (+547 others) | 2003 | Elkton, Md | $2,803,841 |
| Casmalia Superfund Site De Minimis Settlement 99-02(E)(Supp) | BAE Systems Technology Solutions and Services Inc. (+99 others) | 2009 | Casmalia, Ca | $1,700,000 |
Advisory Committees
52 people on 17 committeesData is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.
The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.
Table shows employees of "BAE Systems" that sat on federal advisory committees.
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