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 December 31, 2010 filing.
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  • Summary

    overview of the committee's finances
    Total Raised:
    $478,895
    Total Spent:
    $465,172
    Cash on Hand:
    $95,084
    Debts:
    $0

Standardized Donation Information

covers roughly through Q4 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

$4,740,000 Spent
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Lobbying on Behalf of General Atomics

View all lobbying data for General Atomics Sources: Lobbyist Registration Tracker OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 16 dockets
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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 daily from Regulations.gov by way of Docket Wrench

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

Earmarks

$20,440,000 Received
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Figures 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
2010 $5,000,000 General Atomics: Holloman High Speed Test Track
2010 $3,840,000 General Atomics: Sewage-Derived Biofuels Project
2010 $3,520,000 General Atomics: Hawaii Microalgae Biofuel Project
2010 $2,080,000 General Atomics: Portable Sensor for Toxic Gas Detection
2010 $1,600,000 General Atomics: Watchkeeper
2010 $1,600,000 General Atomics: Military Waste-to-Energy Project using the Hydro-Thermal Energy Conversion (Hy-TEC) Process
2010 $1,600,000 Texas A&M AgriLIFE Research Center General Atomics: Strategic Biofuels Supply System
2010 $1,200,000 General Atomics: Surveillance Augmentation Vehicle
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Federal Spending

7 grants; 85 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.

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 2010 INCREMENTAL FUNDING $201,414,100
contract
 General Atomics 2009 CVN 78 PRODUCTION EMALS $65,000,000
contract
 General Atomics 2009 EMALS SHIP SET FUNDING $39,109,400
contract
 General Atomics 2010 INCREMENTAL FUNDING MOD $32,184,000
contract
 General Atomics 2010 EMALS $31,332,000
contract
 General Atomics 2009 FY09 INCREMENTAL FUNDING $27,545,000
contract
 General Atomics 2009 EMALS $26,245,579
contract
 General Atomics 2010 FY10 INCREMENTAL FUNDING PROVIDED $25,400,000
contract
 General Atomics 2009 PHASE I - ALGAL-DERIVED JP-8 SURROGATE $19,946,886
contract
 General Atomics 2010 PHASE II - ALGAL-DERIVED JP-8 SURROGATE OPTION EXERCISE $15,000,000
View all grant & loan data for General Atomics View all contract data for General Atomics Sources: USASpending.gov

EPA Violations

1 Enforcement Actions
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Figures 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
Casmalia Superfund Site De Minimis Settlement 99-02(C)(Supp)(2) General Atomics (+34 others) 2009 Casmalia, Ca $1,250,000
View all EPA violations data for General Atomics Sources: EPA ECHO Enforcement Data

Advisory Committees

5 people on 4 committees
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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.

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

  • Agency
  • Representation
  • Toggle Department of Energy 3 people on 2 committees
  • Toggle National Science Foundation 2 people on 2 committees
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