Exhibit 358 ยท Oversight report
Pentagon Alchemy: How Defense Officials Pass Through the Revolving Door and Peddle Brass for Gold
This analysis identified 672 cases in 2022 in which the top 20 defense contractors had former government officials, military officers, Members of Congress, and senior legislative staff working for them as lobbyists, board members, or senior executives.
672 cases in 2022 at the top 20 contractors (613 lobbyists, 25 executives, 34 directors); 91 percent registered lobbyists. The staff list is described in the report as non-exhaustive. The table includes COVID-era DoD contractors such as Pfizer and Moderna.
- Source
- Senator Elizabeth Warren (staff report)
- Date
- April 2023
- Quoted from
- Section III.A, pp. 2-3
- Grade
- Reported
- Document
- https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/DoD%20Revolving%20Door%20Report.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- This is Senator Warren's own report; the 645 figure belongs to POGO (Exhibit for 5 November 2018), and no Warren report of 2018 was located. In Table 1 the Pfizer row prints a total of 73 although its parts (71 + 1 + 2) sum to 74; the printed column totals are 613, 25, 34 and 672.