Who We Are

As one of the leading government affairs firms in the country, Brandon Associates employs a top-down approach that allows us to quickly access and secure contractual opportunities and assist clients in obtaining necessary governmental action or insight. Brandon Associates' efforts to date have met with great success at the state, federal and international levels.

The firm has developed extensive ties within each of the fifty states through its long-time memberships in the following organizations:

National Governors Association (NGA)
Republican Governors Association (RGA)
National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG)
National Troopers Coalition (NTC)
National Sheriffs’ Association (NSA)
Democratic Leadership Council (DLC)
Security Industries Association (SIA)
American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE)
New England Council (NEC)
National Defense Industry Association (NDIA)

In addition, Brandon Associates operates internationally in South America, Canada, the Middle East, and the United Kingdom.

Ranked top among lobbying firms in the Northeast by Influence magazine in 2006, Brandon Associates' successes are nationally renowned. Recent accomplishments include:

A company that makes chemical detection devices:

Secured meetings with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Assistant Secretary Julie L. Myers.
Arranged the assistance of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in efforts to expedite deliveries of HAPSITE field chemical agent detectors.
Worked with key members of House Appropriations Committee to arrange funding for portable chemical agent detectors.

State Police Association of Massachusetts (SPAM):

Secured a $49.3 million Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Secured $11.6 million in funding for operational and overtime costs in the state budget.
Secured $60 million in funding for the purchase of cruisers.
Secured $19 million for the implementation of Mobile Data Terminals (MDT) for State Police cruisers.
Succeeded in passing Chapter 43 of the Acts of 2002, "An Act Providing for Civil Service Commission Review of State Police Disciplinary Proceedings."

A company that manufactures portable containment systems for airborne biohazards:

Secured meetings with representatives of Canadian provinces on behalf of the company, which deploys portable isolation and containment systems for airborne biohazard threats.
Arranged personal meetings with United States Ambassador to Canada.
Met with Secretary Mike Leavitt, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Met with William F. Raub, Ph. D., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

An international shipping company:

Arranged meetings to facilitate the resolution of a multi-million dollar trade issue, including meetings with United States Ambassador to Chile, the Chilean Ambassador to the United States, senior officials with the United States Department of Commerce and key Congressional members including former Senator Lincoln Chafee, Chair of the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, and Narcotics Affairs.

A world leader in aviation security:

Secured an amendment to the federal Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2002 providing for the implementation of the company's security devices at airports across the country.
Secured meetings with Norman Mineta, Secretary of Transportation, Randy Null, Senior Advisor to Secretary Mineta, Admiral Loy of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Patrick Schambach, Chief Information Officer at the TSA.
Entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Massachusetts Port Authority as well as five other Category X airports, governing the impending implementation of security systems.

A wireless and mobile data solutions company:

Secured meetings with the Department of Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge and Chief Information Officer Steven Cooper to present Aether's National Homeland Security Wireless Alerting System, as well as provided a proposal demonstrating PocketBlue handheld computer and software solutions as a viable component of the United States Homeland Security initiative.
Met with Charlie Cape, the Special Advisor of Wireless Telecommunications at the Department of Homeland Security and Lee Holcomb, Chief Technology Officer for the DHS.
Secured meetings with the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and over a dozen state Directors of Homeland Security, including Pennsylvania, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Jersey.
Secured an opportunity for the clientto present technology solutions to the Republican Governors Association's public safety technology issues forum.
Secured meetings with Chairman Don Young of the Transportation Committee and House Ranking Minority Member Jim Oberstar.

A company that constructs industrial biological defense systems:

Presented the company’s biological threat alert system to the White House's Council on Private Sector Initiatives (CPSI).
Met with officials at the Federal Office of Emergency Preparedness.
Secured a meeting with Trent DePersia, the Director of the Research and Technology Development Division at the National Institute of Justice.

A leader in ultrasonic fingerprinting technology:

Showcased company’s ultrasonic fingerprint scanning products at the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) Conference in Dallas, Texas.
Secured meetings with Mark Debeo, the Federal Security Director at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Patrick Harney, Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Aviation at Chicago O'Hare International Airport, and officials at Logan International Airport and Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority.
Secured meetings with Patrick Schambach, former Undersecretary for Information and Securities Technology at the Transportation Security Administration and Randy Null, Senior Advisor to Secretary Norman Mineta.

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