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Defense Contractors

Every gift helps a contractor deliver, eventually.

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Emergency Appeal

Help a prime contractor get through its fourth consecutive continuing resolution

$6.4 billion raised of $10 billion goal

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Year-End Giving Report
(FY2026)

How your gifts were allocated, allocable and reasonable across America’s largest prime contractors.

Gifts delivered to:

Lockheed MartinPalantirAndurilFlock Safety

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Step 1

You give $100 to a contractor in need.

$100

Step 2

Lockheed Martin matches it, dollar for dollar.

$100$100

Step 3

Lockheed Martin invoices you for the match.

$115incl. fee

Double your impact: Lockheed Martin will match every gift this month

Every dollar you give to an American defense contractor this month will be matched by Lockheed Martin, then billed back to you at cost plus a reasonable fee. That’s the power of partnership.

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Where your money goes

Your Gift, Fully Burdened

A gift to a defense contractor doesn’t just sit there. Once overhead, fringe, G&A and fee are applied, a single $100 donation grows exponentially through each option year, doubling roughly every three fiscal years. No other charity can say that.

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Current Campaigns

Choose a cause close to your heart. Every campaign goes directly to a contractor, after indirect costs.

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$41,206

82% of $50,000 · 1,204 donors

Winter Coats for Program Managers

Washington winters are hard on the people who manage our nation’s most delayed programs. Your gift keeps them warm through the next schedule review.

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Flock Safety

$318,450

64% of $500,000 · 77 donors (we have their plates)

Every Plate Remembered

Help Flock Safety put one more camera on your street, so your license plate never has to feel forgotten again.

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$13,990

99.9% of $14,000 · 1 donor, very generous

The Coffee Maker Fund

Help replace a coffee maker certified to brew at forty thousand feet. Some people laughed at it in a hearing. You don’t have to.

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Who you’re helping

Your gifts support Lockheed Martin, RTX, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Palantir, Anduril and Flock Safety: American companies that, between them, employ hundreds of thousands of people and have nowhere to turn except the federal government, the rest of the federal government, and you.

The Katell Flannigan Center was founded in FY2009 to make sure no contractor ever has to face a fixed-price contract alone.

Lockheed Martin Palantir Northrop Grumman General Dynamics Anduril Flock Safety

Ways to Give

However you choose to give, your support goes where it’s needed most, as determined in a closed session.

Gifts are not tax-deductible, refundable, or accepted.

Companies such as Lockheed Martin, Palantir and RTX have benefited from the generosity of donors like you, and also from everyone else.

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What your gift does

  • $25 covers one (1) washer, unburdened.
  • $100 funds four minutes of a program review, or one slide.
  • $250 sends a 47-page monthly status report with a green stoplight on the cover.
  • $2,500 names one (1) schedule slip after you or a loved one.
  • $2.2 billion puts one destroyer in the water, roughly, give or take a destroyer.

The Contractor Bill of Rights

Your gift helps us advance the Contractor Bill of Rights: ten principles we hold to be self-evident, or at least self-reported.

Katell Flannigan in the press

October 6, 2026The Procurement Times September 18, 2026CONTRACTING WEEKLY August 30, 2026Overrun July 2, 2026Cost-Plus Courier May 11, 2026OPTION YEARREVIEW April 1, 2026The Bridge Contract February 9, 2026BLOCK II December 15, 2025Sole Source October 3, 2025THE LINE ITEM March 21, 2024Fully Burdened
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A letter from our founder

October 14, 2026 · Katell Flannigan, Founder & President

When I founded this Center, people asked me why anyone would raise money for an industry whose customer spends nearly a trillion dollars a year. My answer was simple: nobody else would. Well, a lot of people would, actually, and do, full time, in very nice offices downtown. But nobody had done it with a .org.

Every day, America’s defense contractors wake up, go to work, and are asked to deliver what they promised, on the date they promised it, for the price they promised. Think about that. Could you live like that?

I believe in a country where every prime contractor can look its program manager in the eye and say, with confidence, “We’ll need another option year.” With your help, that country is within reach, pending appropriations.

“I gave $100 in 2019. It’s $1,480 now. I’ve never been prouder.”

Sustaining Partner since FY2019

“For eleven years we told them the aircraft would be ready next year. Donors like you never stopped believing us.”

A prime contractor, who asked not to be named

“When our program was cancelled, we had only four years of termination costs to grieve. Your gifts got us through.”

A contractor, formerly one name, formerly another name