Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to freeze USAID payments
In a 5-4 ruling, the justices require the administration to honor existing aid and contracts obligations while the legal battle continues. Proponents for the U.S. Agency for International Development won a victory Wednesday when the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Trump administration’s petition to freeze funding for the agency. The ruling applies to obligations the agency […]
Epirus collects $250M in Series D capital to scale up production
The seven-year-old startup is pushing to further develop and make more of its Leonidas system, which works to fire lasers and other pulses at adversaries’ drones. Epirus, a defense technology startup that makes directed energy and anti-drone systems, has fetched $250 million in Series D capital from investors to aid in the expansion of production capacity. […]
Riverside Research acquires secure hardware provider
Riverside is seeking to accelerate its development of new mobile devices and bring virtualization techniques further out to the edge. Riverside Systems has acquired a developer of secure virtualization and other embedded products as part of a push to further build out cyber offerings for national security and other federal agencies. Started in 2014 by Carl […]
NTT Data contests $111M CDC contract on technicality
The incumbent is challenging the rival’s eligibility over a corporate name discrepancy in the government’s official database of who its contractors are. NTT Data is pushing a technicality as a way of winning back a $111 million task order with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agency. NTT Data is the incumbent contractor, responsible for […]