TechAmerica

TechAmerica is a US-based technology trade association. It was formed from the merger of AeA (formerly known as the America Electronics Association), the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), the Government Electronics & Information Technology Association (GEIA), and the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) in 2009. The organization claims to be the "high-tech industry's leading trade association."

Barlett Cleland and Connections to the American Legislative Exchange Council
TechAmerica is connected to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Bartlett Cleland, Senior Director of Policy and Commercial Sector Group, is Tech America's representative to ALEC. Cleland is an experienced lobbyist; he was a registered lobbyist for ITAA from 2000-2004, as well as 2007-2008, before it merged with TechAmerica, according to the Center for Responsive Politics' Open Secrets Lobbyist Database. Cleland also lobbied previously for Americans for Tax Reform.

Through Cleland, TechAmerica is the co-chair of the Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force of ALEC.