RESULTS THAT IMPACT THE BOTTOM LINE
Capitol Solutions® has helped our clients achieve several major budget and policy objectives, generate hundreds of millions of dollars in federal, state and local government sales, and avoid over $20 billion in federal mandate costs. Some highlights are listed below.
· Reduced projected CALEA-related digital wiretapping costs by $6.5 billion
· Eliminated $2 billion in planned Medicare payment cuts to hospitals.
· Forced the FCC to auction 60MHz of spectrum for commercial use, clear additional spectrum for public safety, and used a portion of the auction proceeds to fund $1 billion in federal grants for interoperable public safety communications equipment.
· Blocked a one-year $207 million Bush Administration-backed patent and trademark fee increase.
· Accelerated, by over 18 months, federal law enforcement's plan to clear AWS spectrum for commerical use.
· Secured federal funding for a $1.3 billion U.S. Customs Service IT contract.
· Avoided an underfunded homeland security mandate and secured over $500 million in federal funding to bolster emergency wireless federal, state, and local public safety communications capabilities.
· Enactment of the sweeping patent law changes contained in the American Inventors Protection Act.
· Eliminated $15.9 billion in contingent liabilities for the wireless telecommunications industry
· Accelerated and improved the process for reallocating spectrum from government to commercial use, protected critical national security communications capabilities, and paved the way for the FCC’s 2006 $13.7 billion spectrum auction
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