RELATED CONTENT Trade associations join the scramble to influence deficit supercommitee Few industries have as much at stake in the deficit battle as defense. Yet the Aerospace Industries Association is not a traditional lobbying powerhouse. That’s because its members, such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, typically are bidding—and lobbying—against each other to win major contracts. Now, the industry is set to announce a major new joint advocacy campaign against defense cuts Sept. 14, but observers say that is rare. “They don’t have much of a track record of working together as an industry,” said Joel Johnson, former AIA head of international… Read More