But he wouldn’t rule out teaming up with D’Amato, a former Senate Banking chair, again in the future or picking up some banking or financial services clients.
For now, Siracuse plans to focus primarily on defense and aerospace issues - both of which have picked up drastically on the Hill over the past few months. Siracuse told PI he’s eager to deploy his experience working on the business side of the defense industry to run “more strategic lobbying campaigns” like Bell Textron’s Black Hawk replacement bid, “carrying that forward to my new clients.” He’s signed up a handful of clients already, a roster that includes Textron as well as General Electric Epirus, which produces anti-drone directed energy systems and tank manufacturer American Rheinmetall Vehicles, on all of whose behalf Siracuse is lobbying on the NDAA and defense appropriations bills. “Some of my old clients, and then some who were suppliers and others saying, if you think about going back out, let me know.” “With a big win comes opportunities,” Siracuse said in an interview. Siracuse most recently led the aircraft manufacturer’s successful joint bid with Bell for an Army contract to replace the Black Hawk helicopter, and before that, he spent a dozen years as a partner at Park Strategies, the lobbying firm founded by Siracuse’s former boss, Alfonse D’Amato.
TEXTRON LOBBYIST STRIKES OUT ON HIS OWN: Kraig Siracuse has left Textron and Bell Helicopter after half a decade to launch his own firm, Hither Creek Strategies.
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