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Rolls-Royce North America has enlisted Ballard Partners for an education campaign on Capitol Hill to communicate the strategic importance of its defense capabilities to the US.
Jeff Miller, a former Florida Republican Congressman and chair of Ballard’s veterans practice group, is part of the outreach effort.
London-based R-R in April delivered its first AE 3007N engine to Boeing for the MQ-25 program, the US Navy’s first aircraft carrier-based unmanned air vehicle to be used for refueling, intelligence and surveillance.
R-R also will manufacture and assemble F-130 engines for the Air Force’s B-52 Stratofortress bomber in Indianapolis, its largest US production facility.
CEO Brian Ballard; managing partner Dan McFaul, former aide to Reps. Joe Scarborough and Matt Gaetz; and partner Hunter Morgen, a veteran of the Trump I White House, round out the R-R team.
Scouting America has signed on Alpine Group for matters related to support of the organization from the Department of Defense and Congress.
The City of Miami, which has just elected its first Democratic mayor in 28 years, has hired Trump-connected Continental Strategy to work on federal procurement matters.
Miller Strategies, the well-connected Republican firm, has inked a $1.5M one-year consulting contract from Emirates Global Aluminum, the biggest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside the oil & gas sector.
Anthropic, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence start-up, has retained Republican powerhouse firm Fierce Government Relations for DC representation.
Chad Horrell, who was senior manager for government relations at DoorDash, has joined BGR Group as VP in its state and local practice.
