L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: LLL) is a company that supplies command and control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C3ISR) systems and products, avionics, ocean products, training devices and services, instrumentation, space, and navigation products. Its customers include the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Government intelligence agencies, NASA, aerospace contractors and commercial telecommunications and wireless customers.

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Campaign Finance

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Figures 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.

Latest FEC Data

covers through committee's December 31, 2010 filing.
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  • Summary

    overview of the committee's finances
    Total Raised:
    $601,904
    Total Spent:
    $489,211
    Cash on Hand:
    $503,083
    Debts:
    $0

Standardized Donation Information

covers roughly through Q4 2012. may lag behind FEC section above, as donors and industries are identified by hand.

  • Top Recipients

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    in dollars. "Other" includes 3rd parties and organizations without official party affiliation.

  • State vs. Federal

    in dollars

  • Top PAC Recipients

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View all campaign finance data for L-3 Communications Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$10,993,000 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.

Lobbying on Behalf of L-3 Communications

View all lobbying data for L-3 Communications Sources: Lobbyist Registration Tracker OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 28 dockets; Submitted to 4 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 "L-3 Communications" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

Earmarks

$15,540,000 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 $3,200,000 L-3 Communications: Heavy Fuel Engine Family for Unmanned Systems
2010 $3,040,000 L-3 Communications: Deployable Command and Control Vehicle
2010 $2,500,000 L-3 Communications: Omni Directional Relay and Conformal Antenna
2010 $2,400,000 L-3 Communications: Senior Scout Communications Intelligence (COMINT) Capability Upgrade
2010 $2,000,000 L-3 Communications: Laser Marksmanship Training System
2010 $1,600,000 L-3 Communications: Mobile Integrated Diagnostic and Data Analysis
2010 $800,000 L-3 Communications: Low Cost Stabilized Turret
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Federal Spending

548 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
 L-3 Communications Corporation 2009 MIGRATED DATA VALUE UNKNOWN $86,399,095
contract
 L-3 Communications Corporation 2009 THIS REQUIREMENT IS FOR MANUFACTURING, TESTING, AND DELIVERY OF SRQ-4 (KU) RADIO TERMINAL SETS (RTSS) FOR SHIP SMALL SURFACE COMBATANTS AND ARQ-58 RTS FOR THE MH-60R AIRCRAFT. $59,805,804
contract
 L-3 Communications Corporation 2010 SYSTEM $43,429,878
contract
 L-3 Communications Corporation 2009 Transportation Security Administration THIS IS A HYBRID LETTER CONTRACT. THE PRICING WILL BE FIXED PRICE OR TIME AND MATERIALS- WHICH WILL BE DETERMINED UPON DEFINITIZATION. $38,295,000
contract
 L-3 Communications Corporation 2010 OPTION EXERCISED $37,490,848
contract
 L-3 Communications Corporation 2010 LCCS SERVICES FOR ARMY FLEET OF C-12/RC-12/UC-35 AIRCRAFT AT WORLDWIDE LOCATIONS; INCLUDES MAINTENANCE, UPGRADES AND ELECTIVE IMPROVEMENTS. $33,550,000
contract
 L-3 Communications Corporation 2009 THOR BRADLEY TRANSMISSION REPAIR, STS AND PRODUCT INTEGRATION $33,105,008
contract
 L-3 Communications Corporation 2010 Transportation Security Administration (AIT) L-3 COMMUNICATIONS HSTS04-10-D-ST2003 AMENDMENT PR TO REMOVE REMAINING COMMITMENT BALANCE ON THE TSA BOOKS. THIS ACTION DOES NOT AFFECT THE AWARD.) ARRA STIMULUS FUNDING THE PURPOSE OF THIS PR IS TO PROCURE 200 AIT UNITS UNDER THE ARRA FUNDS ALLOCATED $31,703,400
contract
 L-3 Communications Corporation 2010 Transportation Security Administration (AIT) L-3 COMMUNICATIONS HSTS04-10-D-ST2003 ARRA STIMULUS FUNDING THE PURPOSE OF THIS PR IS TO PROCURE 200 AIT UNITS UNDER THE ARRA FUNDS ALLOCATED $31,703,400
contract
 L-3 Communications Corporation 2010 GMT $30,850,148
View all grant & loan data for L-3 Communications View all contract data for L-3 Communications Sources: USASpending.gov

Contractor Misconduct

4 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.

Misconduct Type Hired By Incident Year Disposition Penalty
Intellectual Property None Misappropriation of Proprietary P-3 Aircraft Data 2009 Judgment Against Defendant $37,280,000
Government Contract Fraud Defense - Army Fraudulent Overbilling on IT Support Services Contracts 2009 Settlement $1,933,080
Ethics Defense - Air Force Air Force Suspension 2010 Suspend/Debar - Company $333,000
Human Rights None Genocide Victims of Krajina v. L-3 Communications 2010 Pending $0
View all contractor misconduct data for L-3 Communications Sources: Federal Contractor Misconduct Database from POGO

Advisory Committees

31 people on 10 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 "L-3 Communications" that sat on federal advisory committees.

  • Agency
  • Representation
  • Toggle Department of Transportation 22 people on 1 committee
  • Toggle Department of Defense 4 people on 4 committees
  • Toggle Department of Commerce 1 person on 1 committee
  • Toggle Department of Homeland Security 1 person on 1 committee
  • Toggle National Archives and Records Administration 1 person on 1 committee
  • Toggle National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1 person on 1 committee
  • Toggle National Science Foundation 1 person on 1 committee
View all advisory committee data for L-3 Communications