Dave Clark, CEO of worldwide consumer business at Amazon, wrote a letter to President Joe Biden saying the company is willing to help with the country's COVID-19 vaccination efforts, Reuters reported Thursday.

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David Limp, senior vice president of devices and services at Amazon, has told TechCrunch in an interview the company will be "launch agnostic" in efforts to deploy a planned constellation of 3,236 broadband satellites to space. "Our hope is that it's not just one provider, that there will be multiple providers," Limp said.

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Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has proposed conditional approval for Amazon's plan to launch more than 3K broadband satellites in non-geostationary orbit, GeekWire reported Friday. "Satellite constellations like this aim to provide high-speed broadband service to consumers in the U.S. and around the world," Pai said in a tweet.

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Brian Kenner, deputy mayor for planning and economic development in Washington, D.C., will join Amazon in early July to serve as a senior manager with oversight of regional economic development efforts in the Greater Washington area, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday.

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Brett McMillen, the general manager of the U.S. Federal Civilian & Ground Station for Amazon Web Services, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the positive impact cloud adoption, innovation through the cloud, increasing data interoperability and "the art of the possible" for federal agencies.

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Amazon and the National Science Foundation have pledged to invest $10M each in artificial intelligence research grants over a three-year period.

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A new survey by market research firm ETR says Microsoft and Amazon have emerged as the preferred vendors in more than half of the top 30 information technology products and services, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

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The U.S. government may provide the largest growth opportunity for Amazon as the company competes for the Defense Department's potential 10-year, $10B cloud contract, CNN Business reported Thursday. The report noted that Amazon is considered to be the frontrunner for the single-award Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement contract. The JEDI program could position the Seattle-based e-commerce firm […] More

Amazon has teamed up with real estate investment trust company JBG Smith to help build a new headquarters at National Landing in Arlington, Va. JBG said Tuesday it will provide Amazon exclusive rights to buy land properties and lease space at its buildings through an agreement. Northern Virginia's Arlington is one of the two locations […] More

Amazon has reportedly picked Northern Virginia's Crystal City and New York's Long Island City to house its two new headquarters sites, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Sources said the Seattle-based e-commerce firm could officially announce its decision as early as Tuesday and government officials from both regions plan to host events for the imminent […] More

Amazon is in talks with stakeholders about plans to establish its second corporate headquarters in Northern Virginia’s Crystal City, the Washington Post reported Saturday. Sources familiar with the matter told The Post the discussions are now in the advanced stages and more elaborate than those the company has had with other potential sites within the […] More

The U.S. Agency for International Development‘s South America Regional office in Peru has awarded a potential five-year, $23.5M contract to AECOM to help protect the Amazon rainforest from harmful infrastructure and extractive efforts. Under the Amazon Promotion of Best Social and Environmental Management Practices initiative, the company will work to protect the hydropower, oil and […] More