A defense company that bungled an enormous Iraq War contract for health care centers has landed a $40 million award to build a 200-bed field hospital for patients battling coronavirus.
Read moreA federal judge approved late Friday Amazon’s request for a preliminary injunction to halt Microsoft’s work on the Defense Department’s $10 billion computer upgrade contract, finding that the Pentagon incorrectly evaluated pricing from the two companies’ competing bids.
Read moreA class action suit claiming that the operator of an immigration detention facility’s voluntary labor scheme violated the forced labor prohibition in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act may continue, the Eleventh Circuit ruled, finding that the act applies to “private for-profit contractors operating federal immigration detention facilities.”
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A federal judge in Texas has dismissed Chinese tech giant Huawei’s lawsuit challenging a U.S. law that bars the government and its contractors from using Huawei equipment due to security concerns.
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The Trump administration said Tuesday it is waiving federal contracting laws to speed up construction of a wall at the Mexican border, moving the president closer to fulfilling a campaign promise in an election year but sparking criticism about fraud, waste and abuse.
Read moreA federal court in Texas ruled in favor of the U.S. government on Chinese telecommunications company Huawei’s constitutional challenge to a law that excludes its and another Chinese company’s products and services from “sensitive United States systems, including government systems and government contractors,” because of security concerns.
Read moreKevin Cloyd, a civilian assistant fire chief at a U.S. military base in Iraq, sued KBR for $10 million, claiming he suffered brain injuries in Iran’s Jan. 8 missile attack after KBR “ignore(d) the unambiguous threats of retaliation” and “failed to evacuate its workers after the United States assassinated Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in Harris County Court.
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Deborah A. Batts, the nation’s first openly gay federal judge, has died. She was 72.
Read moreA military contractor argued before the 10th Circuit that two former workers weren’t forced out, they were laid off, and therefore misrepresented their case to the jury that awarded them $1.54 million.
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The United States carried out airstrikes in Iraq and Syria targeting an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia blamed for a rocket attack that killed a U.S. military contractor, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday.
Read moreNorthrop Grumman claims the United States owes it $7 million in pension-related costs, in the Court of Federal Claims.
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The Trump administration awarded billions of dollars in contracts for private companies to operate immigration detention centers in California – less than two weeks before a new state law takes effect to prohibit them.
Read moreThe Defense Department’s internal watchdog is investigating a $400 million border wall contract awarded to a firm that used multiple appearances on Fox News to push for the job, and whom President Trump touted to the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security.
Read moreThe Department of Labor cannot withhold reports from a journalist with the Center for Investigative Reporting on the race and gender makeup of companies that contract with the federal government, a federal judge in California ruled Tuesday.
Read moreA month after Microsoft scored a $10 billion Pentagon contract, Amazon is contesting the award in court, saying President Donald Trump illegally steered the contract to hurt Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos.
Read moreA federal judge resentenced three former Blackwater security contractors Thursday to more than a decade in prison for their role in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad in which dozens of unarmed Iraqis were gunned down.
Read moreA former Blackwater security contractor was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for his role in the 2007 shooting of unarmed civilians in Iraq that left 14 people dead.
Read moreA federal judge signaled Thursday he will likely OK expanding a lawsuit claiming widespread fraud in the $1 billion cleanup of a radiation-contaminated shipyard to include two other sites in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Read moreA federal judge handed a 46-month prison sentence Thursday to Rogelio Vasquez for selling counterfeit integrated circuits he got from China, some of them to defense contractors for military use
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