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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.
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.
