Goblin House
Goblin House
Question: Investigate Leidos: Search LDA for "Lobbying registrant: Abacus Innovations Corporation". To verify if lobbying activity was temporarily siloed in the transitory subsidiary to satisfy DCSA/mitigation requirements.. Report any findings as factual claims with dates and evidence.
Date: 2026-04-15
The research reveals that Abacus Innovations Corporation was indeed a transitory subsidiary entity, but it was created by Lockheed Martin - not Leidos - to facilitate the divestiture of the Information Systems & Global Solutions business to Leidos in 2016. Abacus existed only temporarily as part of a complex Reverse Morris Trust transaction structure, converting from a Lockheed Martin subsidiary to a Leidos subsidiary on August 16, 2016. However, no evidence was found of Abacus Innovations Corporation being registered as a lobbying entity in the Lobbying Disclosure Act database, nor any indication that lobbying activities were deliberately siloed through this subsidiary to satisfy DCSA/mitigation requirements. The entity appears to have been purely a corporate transaction vehicle rather than an operational lobbying subsidiary. While Leidos and other defense contractors are subject to DCSA Foreign Ownership, Control or Influence (FOCI) mitigation requirements, the available evidence does not support the theory that Abacus was used to isolate lobbying activities for regulatory compliance purposes.