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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.
The Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development enrolls Venable for government relations services.
Coinbase has hired Checkmate Government Relations, which has close ties to the Trump administration, to handle matters related to digital assets as the Senate works on the Clarity Act.
Peter Thiel-backed Palantir Technologies has added Democratic firm Ferox Strategies to its DC lobbying line-up to handle data analytics and technology issues.
Former congressmen Joe Crowley (D-NY) and Jeff Denham (R-CA) have signed on to handle the “new” TikTok on issues related to internet technology and learning-enabled platforms.
Knob Petroleum, which is based in Panama City, has retained Ballard Partners to explore opportunities in Venezuela.
