Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page

9. Check if this filing amends a previously filed version of this report

LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.

15. General issue area code ECN

16. Specific lobbying issues

Funding for economic development of Dayton, Ohio region; securing funding for Military Construction (MILCON) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Springfield Air National Guard Base in future years; supporting exploring third-party and creative financing of construction on military bases; supporting the adoption of criteria by the Defense Health Agency for downsizing medical treatment facilities; supporting a proposal related to pediatric care at Wright-Patterson Medical Center; supporting maintaining positions in the Defense Civilian Acquisition Workforce; supporting additional statutory authority so AFIT can accept a limited number of non-government students from homeland security industries; supporting Hilltop Campus concept of developing a campus-like environment for Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL); supporting increasing funding for infrastructure improvements and minor military construction under the Section 219 program; providing authority to Defense laboratories to bank Section 219 funds as intended in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA); clarifying existing statute that defense laboratories can use nonappropriated and reimbursable funding for Section 219 purposes; supporting a pilot program using innovative tools for business outreach and communication to increase technology transfer from AFRL; supporting funding for the Air Force Minority Leaders program of the AFRL; supporting recommendations of a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on the role of experimentation in the Air Force innovation cycle; supporting reauthorizing the SBIR/STTR Administration Pilot Program; maintaining the presidential aircraft collection at the National Museum of the United States Air Force; increasing Air Force RDT&E funding for research in hypersonics, electrical power systems, technology transition, unmanned aircraft systems applications, autonomy, and additive manufacturing; encouraging continued collaboration on research involving UAS between the Department of Defense and the FAA; urging the Department of Veterans Affairs to support a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) establishing a VA History Center in Dayton; reauthorizing the National Aviation Heritage Area; supporting maintaining New Markets Tax Credit, Historic Tax Credit, and Private Activity Bonds; S. Res. 161 and S. Res. 170, both supporting the designation of May 18, 2017 as the Department of Defense Laboratory Day 2017; implementing and publishing guidance related to direct hiring authorities pursuant to the S. 2943, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law No: 114-328); H.R.244, Consolidated Appropriations Act 2017 (Division C, Defense), RDT&E, Air Force, Line 37, Tech Transfer; H.R.244, Consolidated Appropriations Act 2017 (Division C, Defense), Section 8012, regarding civilian personnel end strength; S. 690, to extend redesignated HUBZones from 3 years to 7 years; H.R. 3219, Fiscal Year 2019 Defense Appropriations Bill, increase funding by $10 million in Air Force RDT&E, line 46, Tech Transition Program, for Competitively awarded technology transition and increase funding by $10 million in Air Force RDT&E, line 5, Aerospace Vehicle Technologies, for Program increase-structures; H.R. 2810, FY 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, supporting Section 571, Expansion of United States Air Force Institute of Technology Enrollment Authority to Include Civilian Employees of the Homeland Security Industry, Section 2843, to amend the Congressional charter of the Aviation Hall of Fame, Section 1082, Collaboration Between FAA and DoD on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, and opposing Section 1601, Establishment of Space Corps in the Department of the Air Force; the following sections from H. Rep. 115-200, the report to accompany H.R. 2810, FY 2018 National Defense Authorization Act: Page 168, Improvements to the Hiring and Training of the Acquisition Workforce, Page 74, Accumulation of section 219 funds, Page 315, Collaboration with Federal Aviation Administration on Unmanned Aerial Systems, Page 316, Enhanced Use Leases, Page 317, Infrastructure Master Plan for Defense Laboratory and Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Infrastructure, Pages 73, 439, Reusable hypersonic vehicle structure, Pages 74, 441, Technology transition efforts, Pages 73, 440, Robust electrical power system for aircraft; S.1519, FY 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, supporting Section 212, Codification and Enhancement of Authorities to Provide Funds for Defense Laboratories for Research and Development of Technologies for Military Missions, Section 5202, Pilot Program to Improve Incentives for Technology Transfer from Department of Defense Laboratories, Section 6002, Collaboration Between Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Defense on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Section 10204, Annual Report on Unfunded Requirements for Laboratory Military Construction Project, Section 14006, Limitation on Cancellation of Designation of Secretary of the Air Force as Department of Defense Executive Agent for a Certain Defense Production Act Program, and opposing Section 218, to designate additional Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratories, and Section 921, Reduction in authorized number of Assistant Secretaries of the military departments; S. 751 and H.R. 2584, National Park Service Legacy Act of 2017.

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Defense - Dept of (DOD), Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Interior - Dept of (DOI)

18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area

19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None

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Information Update Page - Complete ONLY where registration information has changed.

20. Client new address

21. Client new principal place of business (if different than line 20)

22. New General description of client’s business or activities

LOBBYIST UPDATE

23. Name of each previously reported individual who is no longer expected to act as a lobbyist for the client

ISSUE UPDATE

24. General lobbying issue that no longer pertains

AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS

25. Add the following affiliated organization(s)

Internet Address:

26. Name of each previously reported organization that is no longer affiliated with the registrant or client

FOREIGN ENTITIES

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28. Name of each previously reported foreign entity that no longer owns, or controls, or is affiliated with the registrant, client or affiliated organization