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I'll walk Candidate 8 — Lockheed Martin's PAC → committee placement → NDAA outcome. That's the cleanest "money + committee map + legislative result" chain in the shortlist.I see the pattern: Lockheed's PAC funds both House Appropriations Defense (Calvert, Cole, Aguilar), HASC (Norcross, Smith, Carter), and the bipartisan leadership stack (Johnson, Scalise, Emmer, Clark). Calvert chairs HAC-D; Cole chairs full Appropriations; Norcross is HASC seapower; Adam Smith is HASC ranking. Let me verify Calvert's committee role and find a concrete outcome — an NDAA or appropriations vote in this cycle.Wrong bioguide for Calvert. Let me get Ken Calvert correctly and find the NDAA.Excellent — the FY2026 NDAA (s1071-119) became Public Law 119-60 on 2025-12-18. That's the concrete outcome. Now let me verify the bill specifics and Calvert's actual bioguide.I have everything I need:

• Lockheed Martin PAC funded Calvert (HAC-D chair), Cole (HAC chair), Norcross (HASC), Adam Smith (HASC ranking), Carter (HAC-D), Aguilar (Dem leadership), Clark (Dem whip), Johnson (Speaker), Scalise, Emmer — across 2025 and into Q1 2026.
• The FY2026 NDAA (s1071-119) became Public Law 119-60 on 2025-12-18, after the Senate concurred 77-20 (Record Vote 648).
• 15 LDA filings named s1071-119; 35 named the House companion hr3838-119.
• $5,000 is the federal per-election PAC max — Lockheed's PAC is hitting the cap on the right desks.

This is a clean, admiring "channel-stacking" case study. Drafting the post now.

There's an underappreciated discipline in government affairs: you don't need to write the bill, you just need to be in the room with the people who do — and you need to be in that room for years before the markup, not weeks.

Lockheed Martin's federal-relations program in the 119th Congress is a tidy example. Across 2025 and into Q1 2026, the Lockheed Martin Employees' PAC (pac.dog/orgs/ffc10b2a-de4e-48d8-824b-28c46fddd691) cut the federal $5,000 maximum to a precise map of the defense decision tree, not a broad spray.

On the appropriations side: Ken Calvert (pac.dog/members/C000059), who chairs House Appropriations Defense; Tom Cole, the full Appropriations chair; John Carter, also on HAC-D; Chuck Fleischmann, on the same subcommittee. On the authorizing side: Donald Norcross and Adam Smith (the HASC ranking member) on Armed Services. And on the calendar — the people who decide whether a bill gets floor time — Speaker Mike Johnson, Scalise, Emmer, plus Democratic leadership Aguilar and Katherine Clark. Every check sits at the legal max. Every recipient sits at a chokepoint.

The result: the FY2026 National Defense Authorization Act (S.1071, pac.dog/bills/s1071-119) cleared the Senate 77–20 on December 17, 2025 and was signed into law as Public Law 119-60 on December 18. Fifteen distinct LDA filings named that Senate vehicle; thirty-five named the House companion (H.R. 3838). The largest single defense contractor in the country — $329.9B in lifetime DoD awards (pac.dog/orgs/53e9469b-c39c-472e-bd34-d80cfeb66671) — had its annual authorising statute on the President's desk before the holiday recess.

The lesson worth taking from it isn't about money. It's about coverage: appropriators, authorisers, and floor-schedulers funded simultaneously, in equal increments, in both parties. That's a portfolio, not a transaction.

Traced end to end from FEC Form 3X, House Clerk LDA, and congressional action timelines through the pac.dog influence graph — the kind of cross-source mapping that used to take a research team a week.

SOURCES & CHAIN

1. Entity: Lockheed Martin Employees' PAC — LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION EMPLOYEES' POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE / pac.dog/orgs/ffc10b2a-de4e-48d8-824b-28c46fddd691. Connected-org-of relationship to Lockheed Martin Corporation LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION (CONTEXT candidate 8; pac.dog graph).

1. Move — PAC contributions at $5,000 max to leadership + defense committee desks, established via top_outbound_edges(node_kind=organization, node_id=ffc10b2a-…, edge_type=contributed_to):

• Calvert, Ken (HAC-D chair) Calvert, Ken — $5,000 on 2025-03-19 and 2026-02-23
• Cole, Tom (HAC chair) Cole, Tom — $5,000 on 2025-06-11
• Carter, John R. (HAC-D) @person-e8404a8c-a940-484e-b1