Recent events
2025-06-15
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INFERENTIAL
Booz Allen Hamilton, Raytheon, and General Dynamics have filed LDA reports addressing intelligence and defense appropriations in every year from 2015 to 2023, but rarely cite NSA by name in their issue descriptions.
2025-06-15
Transactions
INFERENTIAL
No publicly available GAO report or congressional testimony explicitly identifies an $823 million Palantir-NSA contract as of 2025.
2024-06-15
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The LDA's 'specific issue' taxonomy does not include a code for 'NSA' or 'Signals Intelligence,' meaning all NSA-related advocacy by contractors is currently classified under generic codes like 'INT - Intelligence' or…
2023-06-15
Transactions
INFERENTIAL
Classified annexes to the Intelligence Authorization Act are exempt from public disclosure, meaning lobbying on classified NSA budget items cannot be verified through standard LDA records, requiring investigation of…
2023-06-15
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Booz Allen Hamilton, Raytheon, and General Dynamics have collectively filed over 1,000 LDA reports between 2015-2023 covering defense and intelligence appropriations, with fewer than 5% of those reports explicitly…
2022-06-15
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Booz Allen Hamilton's 2022 LDA filings disclose lobbying on 'FISA reform and intelligence authorization bills,' which were reported as both 'Intelligence' and 'Defense' issues — consistent, but not yet demonstrated…
2022-06-15
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INFERENTIAL
The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA), a trade association for intelligence contractors, files LDA disclosures as an organization, but its member-level lobbying coordination is not publicly reported…
2015-06-15
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INFERENTIAL
The 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) codified GAO's inability to audit operational intelligence programs under Title 50, creating a 'safe harbor' for NSA program documentation to be withheld from GAO…
2013-06-15
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SECONDARY
NSA contractor employment litigation creates public court records through discovery disputes and protective order negotiations that may reveal more operational detail than False Claims Act pleadings, as demonstrated by…
2013-06-15
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SECONDARY
The Edward Snowden case demonstrates that NSA contractor employment litigation can reveal operational details about classified programs (like PRISM) that are completely absent from direct NSA litigation records
2004-06-15
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SECONDARY
The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 created the DNI position without removing NSA from DoD, deliberately preserving dual reporting relationships that fragment transparency requirements
