The hiring numbers show a particularly aggressive strategy by Amazon as it seeks to “dominate the federal space,” said Dave Drabkin, principal at consulting firm Drabkin and Associates and a former top procurement official with the Defense Department and the General Services Administration. And AWS is at the vanguard of this push by the tech companies - hiring government officials with relevant experience at a far swifter pace than two of its biggest cloud computing rivals, Microsoft and Oracle, according to a review of those companies’ job postings. And as Silicon Valley becomes more essential to making the government run, it is trickier than ever for lawmakers to figure out how to check the industry’s power.Īmazon’s cloud computing business is a particularly notable example because it often hires those positioned to gain access to government business.
The hiring spree highlights how tech companies are becoming more entrenched in the operations of the government itself - and indispensable to Cabinet agencies and national security operations - even as politicians shout about the danger of letting them get too powerful.
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