Contact Jordan LaPier Director (202) 495-3320 jlapier@ourpublicservice.org What does Amazon HQ2 in Northern Virginia mean for federal IT? November 20, 2018 With Amazon set to build half of its Amazon HQ2 in the D.C. region, the federal IT community, by proximity, will soon feel the impact of a new 25,000-employee workforce in its backyard, for better or for worse.