/governmentcontracts?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Government Contracts Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:58:09 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2354712?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2354712 A New York federal judge on Tuesday extended a temporary restraining order prohibiting the U.S. Department of Labor from "suspending" most of the Job Corps program, which contractors and others say is tantamount to shuttering the youth education and vocational training program and will likely result in student homelessness. Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:22:10 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2354263?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2354263 One of Russia's largest oil companies pressed a D.C. federal court to restart its long-delayed lawsuit aimed at enforcing an almost 11-year-old $173 million arbitral award against Ukraine, saying discovery must proceed despite the ongoing war. Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:07:28 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2354437?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2354437 The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday refused to revive a Kuwaiti construction company's bid to nix an $8 million arbitral award favoring Kellogg Brown & Root International Inc. in a dispute over a U.S. Army contract, ruling in a published opinion that the company missed a critical statutory deadline. Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:35:03 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2354356?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2354356 Ten Democratic lawmakers demanded information Tuesday from the head of Palantir Technologies Inc. about media reports that the software company is working with the IRS to create a searchable database containing sensitive taxpayer information — claims the company denied almost immediately. Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:35:01 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2341634?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2341634 As discussed at a recent panel at Texas A&M, artificial intelligence will not erase the human element of adjudication in the next 10 to 20 years, but it will drive efficiencies that spur private arbiters to experiment, lead public courts to evolve and force attorneys to adapt, says Christopher Seck at Squire Patton. Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:03:05 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2354241?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2354241 A Florida federal jury has acquitted a former executive of HealthSun Health Plans Inc. of all charges related to a $53 million Medicare fraud scheme, including conspiracy to commit healthcare and wire fraud and multiple counts of major fraud against the United States. Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:47:37 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2354318?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2354318 Comerica Bank is not permitted to pay interest to recipients of a federal assistance program it helps administer, the bank argued in a bid to toss class claims from enrollees of the benefits card program who allege that the bank improperly kept interest earned on their accounts.   Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:23:37 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2354288?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2354288 French aerospace company Safran will have to divest its North American actuation business to move forward with its $1.8 billion acquisition of Collins Aerospace's flight control unit from RTX, U.S. and British antitrust regulators announced Tuesday. Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:48:39 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2353327?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2353327 As judges issue sanctions for courtroom incivility, and state bars advance formal discipline rules, trial lawyers must understand that the difference between zealous advocacy and unprofessionalism is not just a matter of tone; it's a marker of skill, credibility and potentially disciplinary exposure, says Nate Sabri at Perkins Coie. Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:30:29 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2353783?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2353783 A former senior official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has rejoined Crowell & Moring LLP as a partner in its government contracts group, the firm announced Tuesday. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 22:16:23 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2354040?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2354040 The U.S. Department of Justice has decided not to go after private equity firm White Deer Management LLC after it discovered and voluntarily disclosed that Unicat's former leadership had violated economic sanctions and export laws, according to an announcement made Monday. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 21:15:17 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2353741?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2353741 The Fourth Circuit has kept its revival of a no-poach wage-fixing case against some of the nation's biggest warship makers intact, rejecting a petition to rehear the case en banc after a three-judge panel kicked it back to district court last month. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 19:49:04 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2353849?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2353849 The U.S. Government Accountability Office has rejected a Virginia small business's challenge of a $58 million Defense Information Systems Agency award for support services, concluding its allegations were largely based only on the supposed superiority of its own $107 million proposal. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 19:43:22 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2353752?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2353752 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is urging a New York federal judge to send its novel case against software developer SolarWinds Corp. to trial, arguing that the company hid its "pervasively poor cybersecurity practices" from investors ahead of a massive data breach that affected government and corporate clients. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:38:21 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2354071?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2354071 Companies accused by data security firm Atlas Data Privacy Corp. of violating New Jersey's judicial privacy law argued in federal court Monday that the suits should be dismissed because they lack enough facts to carry their claims. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:34:48 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2353206?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2353206 A Florida-based communications company is claiming that it was improperly denied reimbursement for replacing Chinese-made equipment from its network as part of the Federal Communications Commission's "Rip and Replace" program. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:50:18 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2353666?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2353666 The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to determine whether federal or state courts are the proper venue for Louisiana's bid to hold Chevron, Exxon Mobil and other major oil companies liable for damages to the state's coastal lands that were allegedly caused by World War II-era oil production activities. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:28:49 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2353675?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2353675 The former attorney of a onetime Georgia county auditor cannot recover attorney fees from her earlier representation of the auditor in a whistleblower suit, a federal judge has ruled, finding she failed to prove she was prevented from fully and fairly litigating her case. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:26:23 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2352951?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2352951 A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday blocked the National Institutes of Health from cutting hundreds of grant programs to universities, hospitals and other organizations, saying that in his 40 years on the bench he had never seen such "palpable" racial and LGBTQ discrimination from the government. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 22:04:00 +0000 /governmentcontracts/articles/2353338?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /governmentcontracts/articles/2353338 A California federal judge said Friday that planned staff reductions at the State Department would violate her injunction blocking President Donald Trump's executive order directing layoffs at federal agencies, saying she's not persuaded by the government's assertion that the department's reorganization was underway before the order.