Download or read book Lobbying for Defense written by Matthew Kambrod and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-of-a-kind user's guide to successful lobbying for defense appropriation draws on Matthew R. Kambrod's forty-plus years of experience both in the Pentagon as a military officer and on Capitol Hill as a lobbyist. The book presents step-by-step instructions for the lobbyist along with detailed information that only someone with the author's background could provide. He understands how the system works and shows how, when lobbying is conducted within the boundaries of propriety, the process can efficiently benefit lawmakers and defense officials as well as industry. A former Deputy for Aviation to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development, and Acquisition and a current lobbyist for the defense industry, Colonel Kambrod leads the reader through the annual lobbying process, explaining how the armed services establish their requirements for defense programs and how the annual budget is formulated. He also addresses the all-important distinction between "funded" and "unfunded" requirements; defines the roles played by the military, industry, and Congress; and lists the steps to be taken to develop arguments in the pursuit of congressional funding. Topics of general interest, such as campaign contributions, abuse of power, and possible lobbying reforms, are included along with a practical list of lessons learned and an appendix filled with samples of useful documents. In demystifying the process of lobbying for defense dollars, the author provides an essential tool for everyone interested in the subject both lobbyists and all those who must interact with them.
Download or read book The Role of Lobbyists in the Defense Budget and Procurement Process written by Richard W. Rock and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lobbyists have been with us since the founding of the United States Government, but there is room for debate as to whether or not their influence is positive or negative, particularly in regard to defense budget and procurement. The legal basis for lobbying is found in the U.S. Constitution and supported through legal precedence, but many aspects of the practice remain legally and ethically ambiguous. Questioned are practices such as the 'revolving door' where national security experts pass between government and the defense industry taking inside knowledge and influence with them. Also the influence of Political Action Committees (PACS) and their ability to prevent the disclosure of political contributions casts doubts on the system. Questioned also is the Department of Defense practice of lobbying Congress even though such practice is restricted by law. But the overriding factor in all this is Congress' attitude toward protection of home district interests or 'pork barreling' which becomes too often the overriding consideration for too many national defense issues. But through this maze of distrust and vague legalities the lobbyist emerges on the positive side of the ledger, it is the government agencies that need to be more specific in defining the parameters of the lobbyist and in making their practices more public.
Download or read book The Politics of Defense Contracting written by Gordon Adams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first systematic study of the relationship between government and defense contractors, examining in detail the political impact of the eight most powerful defense contractors. It details ways in which Boeing, General Dynamics, Grumman, McDonnell Douglas, Northrop, Rockwell International, and United Technologies influence government, from their basic contract activity, corporate structure, and research efforts, to their Washington offices, Political Action Committee campaign contributions, hiring of government personnel, and membership on federal advisory committees. Adams concludes with specific recommendations for changes in disclosure requirements that would curb some of the political power corporations can wield. It also suggests specific ways in which the Iron Triangle can be made subject to wider congressional and public scrutiny.
Download or read book Top Guns written by Philip J. Simon and published by . This book was released on 1987-07-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Allegations of Improper Lobbying by Department of Defense Personnel of the C 5B and B 1B Aircraft and Sale to Saudi Arabia of the Airborne Warning and Control System written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book US Defense Politics written by Harvey M. Sapolsky and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an accessible overview of US defense politics for upper-level students. This new edition has been fully updated and revised, with a new chapter on veterans and new material on topics such as cyberwarfare and lobbying. Analyzing the ways in which the United States prepares for war, the authors demonstrate how political and organizational interests determine US defense policy and warn against over-emphasis on planning, centralization, and technocracy. Emphasizing the process of defense policy-making rather than just the outcomes of that process, US Defense Politics departs from the traditional style of many other textbooks. Designed to help students understand the practical side of American national security policy, the book examines the following key themes: US grand strategy; who joins America's military; how and why weapons are bought; the management of defense; public attitudes toward the military and casualties; the roles of the president and the Congress in controlling the military; the effects of 9/11 and the Global War on Terror on security policy, homeland security, government reorganizations, and intra- and inter-service relations. The third edition will be essential reading for students of US defense politics, national security policy, and homeland security, and highly recommended for students of US foreign policy, public policy, and public administration.
Download or read book Lobbying and Self Defense written by John Hasnas and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lobbying consists in the effort to influence the decision of government policy makers. In a liberal society, the use of coercion to obtain one's ends needs ethical justification. Thus, to the extent that one is lobbying the government to exercise coercion on one's behalf, such lobbying needs ethical justification. This essay argues that the desire to obtain a benefit for oneself at the expense of others that one cannot obtain through voluntary exchange can never serve as such a justification. It further argues that the action of engaging in such ethically unjustified lobbying is morally equivalent to an attack on those who will suffer a loss if it is successful. The essay then applies the legal doctrines of self-defense and defense of others to identify an ethically justified form of defensive lobbying, and traces several of its implications.
Download or read book Government Operations written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.
Download or read book The Politics of Defense Contracting written by Gordon Adams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first systematic study of the relationship between government and defense contractors, examining in detail the political impact of the eight most powerful defense contractors. It details ways in which Boeing, General Dynamics, Grumman, McDonnell Douglas, Northrop, Rockwell International, and United Technologies influence government, from their basic contract activity, corporate structure, and research efforts, to their Washington offices, Political Action Committee campaign contributions, hiring of government personnel, and membership on federal advisory committees.Adams concludes with specific recommendations for changes in disclosure requirements that would curb some of the political power corporations can wield. It also suggests specific ways in which the Iron Triangle can be made subject to wider congressional and public scrutiny.
Download or read book An Analysis of Proposed and Current Regulations Concerning Lobbying Costs in Department of Defense Contracts written by Rhys Sueur and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to analyze the Department of Defense (DOD) attempts to regulate lobbying costs in Government contracts. The study reviews all DOD efforts in the lobbying area since 1977, and discusses policy changes, critical responses, and the rationale behind the approach. The results of this research indicate that: (1) politics have overshadowed the merits of the lobbying issue in many instances; (2) no one has a quantitative figure of the amount of lobbying costs charged to Government contracts; and (3) there is no solid consensus on what activities constitute lobbying and how they should be regulated. The researcher proposes continued evaluation of the DOD lobbying costs regulations to obtain better data and ascertain the magnitude of the costs involved in lobbying in DOD contracts, and the DOD regulatory approach. Originator-supplied keywords include: Legislative liaison.
Download or read book America s Defense Line written by Grant F. Smith and published by Institute for Research. This book was released on 2008 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is generally understood that American interest groups played a crucial role in creating the state of Israel in 1948. Smith reveals that many of the functions the Israeli lobby smoothly and quietly executes in political life today were formed in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Download or read book Improper Lobbying Activities by the Department of Defense on the Proposed Procurement of the C 5B Aircraft written by GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT DIV. and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive and cooperative effort was initiated and directed by officials of the Air Force and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, with the Lockheed Corporation and several other Defense and non-Defense firms, for the purpose of influencing members of the Congress on the proposed $10 billion procurement of 50 C-5B aircraft, then under consideration by the Congress. Air Force and OSD officials have violated Federal antilobbying laws by expending appropriated funds in the aiding and supporting of contractors to perform lobbying activities. Also, reimbursement to these contractors for portions of their lobbying costs as overhead expenses incident to current year Government cost-type contracts is prohibited by section 607(a). (Author).
Download or read book Congress Resurgent written by Randall B. Ripley and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of Congress's role in shaping American foreign policy
Download or read book The US Lobby and Australian Defence Policy written by Vince Scappatura and published by Investigating Power. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian society and its leaders generally take for granted the importance and value of this nation's relationship with the United States. The US is commonly thought of as the world's great purveyor of liberal values and the rule of law, and as a powerful friend indispensable to Australian security. In The US Lobby and Australian Defence Policy Vince Scappatura demonstrates how these conceptions are underpinned by the work of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue, Australia's most important, private, pro-US lobby group. As the inner workings of this lobby are unveiled for the first time, Scappatura also discusses the considerable costs to Australia of its strong military ties to the US, draws into question notions of "benign" US power, and demonstrates that suggestions of the US keeping Australia safe from invasion are flatly wrong. For Australia's national security elite, other considerations, to do with power and wealth and spreading political influence, are to the fore...
Download or read book The US Marine Corps and Defense Unification 1944 47 written by Gordon W. Keiser and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the controversy surrounding defense organization in the period 1944-1947 is fitting in light of current events. Having passed through public disenchantment attendant to the Vietnam war (by no means our country's first unpopular fight), the US national security establishment is being promised rebirth. With fresh designs for defense organization in the offing, it is worthwhile to study the heated policy conflict that ultimately resulted in a structure affecting virtually every aspect of civil-military relations in the United States. The Marine Corps' part in the conflict is a little-known chapter in American civil-military relations or, more precisely, the field of politico-military affirs. The purpose of this study is to analyze events leading to the enactment of the National Security Act, focusing on the Marine Corps as perhaps the most vocal and bitter military opponent of the concept of unification expressed by the War Deparment. The main themes of this study are: centralization versus dectralization in the defense structure, the role of military lobbying, and the relationship between the Marine Corps on one hand, and Congress and its constituency on the other.
Download or read book The Business of America is Lobbying written by Lee Drutman and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate lobbyists are everywhere in Washington. Of the 100 organizations that spend the most on lobbying, 95 represent business. The largest companies now have upwards of 100 lobbyists representing them. How did American businesses become so invested in politics? And what does all their money buy? Drawing on extensive data and original interviews with corporate lobbyists, The Business of America is Lobbying provides a fascinating and detailed picture of what corporations do in Washington, why they do it, and why it matters. Prior to the 1970s, very few corporations had Washington offices. But a wave of new government regulations and declining economic conditions mobilized business leaders. Companies developed new political capacities, and managers soon began to see public policy as an opportunity, not just a threat. Ever since, corporate lobbying has become increasingly more pervasive, more proactive, and more particularistic. Lee Drutman argues that lobbyists drove this development, helping managers to see why politics mattered, and how proactive and aggressive engagement could help companies' bottom lines. All this lobbying doesn't guarantee influence. Politics is a messy and unpredictable bazaar, and it is more competitive than ever. But the growth of lobbying has driven several important changes that make business more powerful. The status quo is harder to dislodge; policy is more complex; and, as Congress increasingly becomes a farm league for K Street, more and more of Washington's policy expertise now resides in the private sector. These and other changes increasingly raise the costs of effective lobbying to a level only businesses can typically afford. Lively and engaging, rigorous and nuanced, The Business of America is Lobbying will change how we think about lobbying-and how we might reform it.
Download or read book US Defense Politics written by Harvey M. Sapolsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new textbook seeks to explain how US defense and national security policy is formulated and conducted. The focus is on the role of the President, Congress, political partisans, defense industries, lobbies, science, the media, and interest groups, including the military itself, in shaping policies. It examines the following key themes: US grand strategy; who joins America's military; how and why weapons are bought; the management of defense; public attitudes toward the military and casualties; the roles of the President and the Congress in controlling the military; the effects of 9/11 on security policy, homeland security, government reorganizations, and intra- and inter-service relations. The book shows how political and organizational interests determine US defense policy, and warns against the introduction of centralising reforms. In emphasizing the process of defense policy-making, rather than just the outcomes of that process, this book signals a departure from the style of many existing textbooks.
