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Alpine Group is providing Washington representation for Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing platform.
The focus is on federal appropriations matters and management of cloud computing technologies.
AWS registered $66.5B in nine-month revenues and chalked up $17.4 billion in operating income.
It boasts of major federal contracts, led by the $10B ten-year “Wild and Stormy” pact with the National Security Agency, and work for the Pentagon, Central Intelligence Agency and the US Navy.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has a fraught relationship with Donald Trump. The company in 2019 said Trump launched “behind the scenes attacks” on it, which caused it to lose a major federal contact to Microsoft.
CEO Les Spivey leads the five-member AWS team, which includes Keenan Austin Reed, executive director and board member at Alpine’s parent company, Public Policy Holding Company.
Ballard Partners has signed to a represent the US unit of Rheinmetall, Germany’s biggest defense contractor, on Army procurement issues.
BGR Group signs on to provide lobbying and PR services for Terzo, an AI financial intelligence platform. Douglas Lute, chair of BGR’s international and defense practices, will join Terzo’s board of directors.
Avoq has landed Palantir Technologies, the controversial surveillance company founded by right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, as a client.
Anne Kierig, who was senior manager of public policy at Amazon, has joined the American Advertising Federation as VP-government affairs. She takes over for Clark Rector, who is retiring after a 37-year run at AAF.
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, which was established in compliance with the executive order signed by President Trump, has hired Valcour LLC, which has close ties with his administration.
