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[MONEY FLOW] CHAIN 4 HOPS 1 VANISH
// Money-flow chain

Raytheon → Lobbying → Congressional Committees → Defense Contracts

Documented totalUSD $4.70B
As of2024-01-01
Confidence[PRIMARY]
// Source

Raytheon Technologies (RTX) spends tens of millions annually on federal lobbying and political contributions directed at Armed Services Committee members who authorize its procurement programs. Those same committees then appropriate funds for contracts awarded back to Raytheon. This chain traces the documented circular flow of lobbying spend to contract revenue using FEC, LD-2/LD-203, and USASpending.gov records.

// Flow Diagram
$16.10MFee / consulting payment$1.20MDonation$890.0KDonation$4.70BContractRaytheonTechnologies (RTX)RaytheonLobbying & PAC Ope…⛔U.S. House ArmedServices C…Senate ArmedServices Commi…US Department ofDefense (P…
// Hops
1
Fee / consulting payment · primary · 2023-12-31
Raytheon Technologies (RTX) → Raytheon Lobbying & PAC Operations
USD $16.10M (Total federal lobbying expenditure, 2023 (LD-2 filings))
⛔ Vanish point — Undisclosed beneficial owner
LD-2 lobbying disclosures list the client (Raytheon) and the registrant firms, but do not itemize which specific procurement programs, earmarks, or contract vehicles the lobbyists advocated for. The connection between lobbying expenditure and specific contract awards cannot be traced through public filings alone — the causal link passes through unrecorded meetings, briefings, and committee markups.
2
Donation · primary · 2024-01-01
Raytheon Technologies (RTX) → U.S. House Armed Services Committee
USD $1.20M (RTX PAC + employee contributions to House Armed Services Committee members, 2023-2024 cycle)
3
Donation · primary · 2024-01-01
Raytheon Technologies (RTX) → Senate Armed Services Committee
USD $890.0K (RTX PAC + employee contributions to Senate Armed Services Committee members, 2023-2024 cycle)
4
Contract · primary · 2023-09-30
US Department of Defense (Pentagon) → Raytheon Technologies (RTX)
USD $4.70B (Aggregate FY2023 DoD prime contract obligations to Raytheon Technologies and subsidiaries)
[PUBLIC COST ESTIMATE]
At least $4.7B in documented public funds flow through entities connected to this profile.
$4.7BContract Value
1Money Chains
4Traced Hops
Calculation Methodology

Contract values are summed from documented money flow chains where this entity appears as a source or destination node. Amounts are drawn from USASpending.gov, FEC filings, SEC EDGAR, or LD-2 lobbying registrations.

Donor contributions aggregate documented amounts from the donor_interests table, sourced from FEC individual and PAC contribution filings.

Connected officials are elected officials in our database with a mapped relationship (lobbying, board membership, campaign contribution, etc.) to this entity.

Annualised flow represents the total documented dollar amount traced through money flow hops involving this entity. Where hop-level amounts are unavailable, the chain-level documented total is used as a conservative upper bound.

All figures are drawn from public filings. Estimates are conservative — undisclosed transactions, dark money, and vanish-point hops are excluded from totals. This is a minimum documented floor, not a ceiling.

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