US Dept of Defense

The United States Department of Defense (USDOD, DOD or DoD, initially briefly referred to as the National Military Establishment or NME) is the U.S. federal department allocated the largest level of budgetary resources and charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the United States armed forces. The Department of Defense is an evolution of the Department of War. The organization and functions of the DoD are set forth in Title 10 of the United States Code.

Source: Wikipedia

Campaign Finance

$811,013 Given
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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.

covers through Q3 2012

  • Top Recipients

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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.

  • Republicans vs. Democrats

    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 US Dept of Defense Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 1 docket
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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 "US Dept of Defense" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

EPA Violations

6 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.

covers through EPA's October 19, 2011 release
Case Name Defendant Date Locations Amount
Alameda Naval Air Station (Ff) United States Navy 2011 Alameda, Ca $125,811,705
Apra Harbor, Us Navy, Federal Facilities Compliance Agreement United States Navy 2011 Apra Harbor Naval ... $75,400,000
Naval Amphibious Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek 2011 Norfolk, Va $13,909,707
Navy, Dept Of Naval Weapons Station Yorktown - Cheatham Annex Navy, Dept Of Naval Weapons Station Yorktown - Che 2011 Yorktown, Va $5,005,000
Nuclear Metals Inc Superfund Site / Textron United States Army (+3 others) 2011 Concord, Ma $74,115,000
Pools Prairie Superfund Site (Ff) United States Department Of Defense (+2 others) 2011 Neosho, Mo $4,000,000
View all EPA violations data for US Dept of Defense Sources: EPA ECHO Enforcement Data