General Atomics

Child Organization: General Atomics Aeronautical Systems

General Atomics is a nuclear physics and defense contractor headquartered in San Diego, California. General Atomics’ research into fission and fusion matured into competencies in related technologies, allowing the company to expand into other fields of research. General Atomics develops systems ranging from the nuclear fuel cycle to remotely operated surveillance aircraft, airborne sensors, and advanced electric, electronic, wireless and laser technologies.

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Campaign Finance

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  • 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.

Latest FEC Data

covers through committee's October 17, 2012 filing.
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  • Summary

    overview of the committee's finances
    Total Raised:
    $426,627
    Total Spent:
    $468,900
    Cash on Hand:
    $52,951
    Debts:
    $0

Standardized Donation Information

covers through June 2012. may lag behind FEC section above, as donors and industries are identified by hand.

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View all campaign finance data for General Atomics Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$3,430,000 Spent
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Figures 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.

For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.

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Lobbying On Behalf of General Atomics

  • Names of Lobbyists
  • Firm Hired Amount
    Innovative Federal Strategies $360,000
    Ice Miller Strategies $210,000
    Capitol Solutions $200,000
    Park Strategies $180,000
    Capstone National Partners $180,000
    Oldaker Law Group $130,000
    Denny Miller Assoc $120,000
    American Defense International $70,000
    Bagley Group $70,000
    Capitol Partners Inc $60,000
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
    • Defense,
    • Fed Budget & Appropriations,
    • Energy & Nuclear Power,
    • Homeland Security,
    • Transportation,
    • Taxes,
    • Environment & Superfund,
    • Government Issues,
    • Aviation, Airlines & Airports,
    • Intelligence
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
    Bill No. Title
    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.2354 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012
    H.R.2608 Small Business Program Extension and Reform Act of 2011
    H.R.2055 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012
    H.R.1 Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011
    H.R.3671 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012
    H.R.2017 Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012
    H.R.5856 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013
  • Recent Lobbying Contracts
    Date Registrant Summary
    Oct. 18, 2012 General Atomics Appropriations View registration
    Oct. 9, 2012 Forbes-Tate H.R. 2354--Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act 2012, issues related to nuclear energy, fusion energy and stockpile stewardship; H.R. 2055/H.R. 3671--Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2012, issues related to nuclear funding; FY13 Energy & Water Appropriations, issues related to nuclear funding. View registration
View all lobbying data for General Atomics Sources: Lobbyist Registration Tracker OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

6 Mentions
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All 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.

updated from Regulations.gov on September 27, 2011

The tables show occurrences of "General Atomics" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

Federal Spending

7 grants; 70 contracts
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Federal 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.

covers through USASpending.gov's Sept. 15, 2012 release for contracts and Oct. 19, 2012 for grants.

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
contract
 General Atomics 2011 INCREMENTAL FUNDING. $131,568,589
contract
 General Atomics 2012 INCREMENTAL FUNDING $98,400,000
contract
 General Atomics 2011 INCREMENTAL FUNDING MODIFICATION $19,390,291
contract
 General Atomics 2012 PDR $17,405,515
contract
 General Atomics 2012 INCREMENTAL FUNDING, ADD GFE AND ADMIN CORRECTIONS. $14,000,000
contract
 General Atomics 2011 INCREMENTAL FUNDING $13,380,910
contract
 General Atomics 2011 ELECTROMAGNETIC AIRCRAFT LAUNCH SYSTEM INCREMENTAL FUNDING AND AWARD FEE PLAN REVISION $10,549,999
contract
 General Atomics 2011 EMALS INCREMENTAL FUNDING $9,337,600
contract
 General Atomics 2011 INCREMENTAL FUNDING MODIFICATION $8,801,422
contract
 General Atomics 2012 INCREMENTAL FUNDING MOD $8,408,376
View all grant & loan data for General Atomics View all contract data for General Atomics Sources: USASpending.gov

Contractor Misconduct

1 Instances
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This 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.

covers through POGO's March 3, 2012 release
Misconduct Type Hired By Incident Year Disposition Penalty
Non-governmental Contract Fraud Non-Governmental Banks v. General Atomics (Breach of Contract) 2011 Judgment Against Defendant $14,700,000
View all contractor misconduct data for General Atomics Sources: Federal Contractor Misconduct Database from POGO

Advisory Committees

2 people on 1 committee
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Data 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.

covers through 2011

Table shows employees of "General Atomics" that sat on federal advisory committees.

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  • Toggle Department of Energy 2 people on 1 committee
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