Exhibit 357 ยท Oversight report
Brass Parachutes: Defense Contractors' Capture of Pentagon Officials Through the Revolving Door
There were 645 instances of the top 20 defense contractors in fiscal year 2016 hiring former senior government officials, military officers, Members of Congress, and senior legislative staff as lobbyists, board members, or senior executives in 2018
645 instances of top-20 FY2016 contractors employing former senior officials, officers, Members of Congress and senior staff (562 lobbyists, 41 executives, 42 directors); at least 380 high-ranking DoD officials and officers; 95 at the top five contractors. Built from public sources and FOIA. Table sums re-derived; underlying lobbying filings not.
- Source
- Project On Government Oversight
- Date
- 5 November 2018
- Quoted from
- Major Findings, p. 9
- Grade
- Reported
- Document
- https://docs.pogo.org/report/2018/POGO_Brass_Parachutes_DoD_Revolving_Door_Report_2018-11-05.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- The 645 figure is POGO's, published 5 November 2018. The report counts each person once per company, states that the vast majority of the individuals identified did not violate any law or regulation, and thanks the Charles Koch Foundation and Philip A. Straus Jr.