Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations
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Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 25 Palantir Technologies 800 million in government contracts Peter Thiel donated 125 million to Trump 2
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In the 18 months following Peter Thiel’s $1.25 million donation to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Palantir Technologies secured $800 mill…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 24 General Atomics Predator drones 2 billion in contracts company founder Neal Blue donated heavily to
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 2001 and 2010, General Atomics received $2.1 billion in U.S. Department of Defense contracts for Predator drones—while its co-founder and CEO…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 23 Boeing Chinook helicopters 3 billion contract for helicopters whose transmissions had known failure
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET In 2014, the U.S. Army awarded Boeing a $3.1 billion contract to produce 200 CH-47F Chinook helicopters—despite internal Pentagon documents showing t…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 22 Science Applications International 2 billion FBI virtual case file contract delivered unusable softw
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2005, the FBI terminated its $2 billion contract with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for the Virtual Case File (VCF) system…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 21 Vinnell Corporation trained Saudi National Guard subsidiary of Northrop Grumman no competitive biddi
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET In 1975, the U.S. Department of Defense awarded Vinnell Corporation—a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman—a $77 million contract to train the Saudi Arabia…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 20 MPRI private military company trained Croatian military before Operation Storm contract approved by
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET In August 1995, the Croatian military launched Operation Storm, a 63-hour offensive that expelled over 200,000 Serbs from the Krajina region—Europe’s…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 19 KBR formerly Kellogg Brown Root 172 billion in logistics contracts employees electrocuted in Iraq du
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 2003 and 2008, at least 18 U.S. military personnel and contractors were electrocuted in Iraq due to faulty wiring in showers and other facili…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 18 DynCorp 5 billion in contracts despite documented human trafficking by employees in Bosnia and Afgha
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET In 2002, a U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID) report documented DynCorp employees in Bosnia purchasing girls as young as 12 for sex, some…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 17 Academi formerly Blackwater State Department contracts continued after Nisour Square massacre killed
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On September 16, 2007, contractors from the private military firm then known as Blackwater opened fire in Baghdad’s Nisour Square, killing 17 Iraqi c…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 16 Textron 3 billion in contracts including Osprey aircraft continued receiving contracts despite fatal
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 2017 and 2023, Textron received $3.1 billion in U.S. Department of Defense contracts for the V-22 Osprey aircraft—including $1.2 billion awar…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 15 Cubic Defense Systems 1 billion in training contracts CEO former Air Force acquisition officer
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In the 24 months following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Cubic Defense Systems—a company whose CEO, Bradley Feldmann, was a former U.S. Air Fo…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 14 MITRE Corporation sole-source contracts totaling billions operates as federally funded research cent
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET Since 1958, the MITRE Corporation has received over $30 billion in U.S. federal funding—nearly all of it through sole-source contracts, meaning no co…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 13 Leidos 79 billion in contracts former deputy defense secretary joined board after leaving government
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In the 18 months after leaving his post as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense in 2019, David Norquist joined the board of Leidos—a company that had jus…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 12 ManTech International 15 billion in contracts founder served on congressional intelligence advisory
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET In 2020, ManTech International—a defense contractor specializing in cybersecurity and intelligence support—won $1.5 billion in classified and unclass…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 11 CACI International Abu Ghraib interrogation contract company employed retired military officers on P
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2003, CACI International, a Virginia-based defense contractor, supplied interrogators to Abu Ghraib prison under a contract that listed their duti…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 10 L3 Technologies 4 billion in contracts companys PAC donated to every member of relevant appropriatio
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2019, L3 Technologies—a U.S. defense contractor with $4 billion in annual revenue—donated $120,000 through its political action committee (PAC) to…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 09 DRS Technologies 13 billion contract after hiring 22 former Pentagon officials as lobbyists
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In the 24 months before DRS Technologies secured a $1.3 billion Pentagon contract in 2008, the company hired 22 former Department of Defense official…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 08 Booz Allen Hamilton 46 billion in government contracts in 2013 James Clapper former employee became
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2013, Booz Allen Hamilton received $4.6 billion in U.S. government contracts—more than the annual GDP of 40 countries—while its former vice presid…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 07 SAIC NSA contract 2 billion signals intelligence contract company founded by former NSA director
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2001, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)—a defense contractor founded by a former NSA director—won a $2 billion contract to mod…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 06 Northrop Grumman B-21 80 billion stealth bomber contract companys lobbying expenditure doubled year
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET In the twelve months before Northrop Grumman was awarded the $80 billion B-21 Raider contract in 2015, the company’s federal lobbying expenditures do…