By Kevin McCauley
Microsoft has added Cassidy & Assocs. to its Washington lobbying line-up to focus on provisions of the House and Senate defense authorization bills.
The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant shelled out $3.8M in lobbying outlays for the first-half of this year.
The Cassidy team includes president Barry Rhoads. The former U.S. Army office and tax prosecutor at the Dept. of Justice is remembered for serving as deputy general counsel on the 1991 Dept. of Defense Base Realignment and Closure Commission. He merged
The Rhoads Group (defense and homeland security issues) into Cassidy in 2010.
Former Air Force officer Vernon Simmons joins Rhoads on Team Microsoft. He did a two-year stint as budget director of the Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, responsible for an outlay of $26B.
Dan McNamara (executive VP), Mark Hegarty (senior VP) and Nicole DiResta (senior VP) round out Cassidy’s lobbying team.
Microsoft also uses Patton Boggs, Stanton Park Group, Blank Rome, Elmendorf Ryan, Monument Policy Group and Cornerstone PA to work Capitol Hill. |