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Any disadvantaged business enterprises that are not recertified as DBE firms under the U.S. Dept. of Transportation’s new standards can be terminated from projects for good cause, DOT officials said…

Recent decisions to scale back affirmative action and disadvantaged business programs in infrastructure are already starting to tilt the playing field away from small businesses in aviation and transportation.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has filed an interim ruling dismantling a Reagan-era program that allocated federal funds to disadvantaged firms. The interim final rule issued October 3 states the…

A new U.S. Dept. of Transportation rule upends the decades-old program designed to address discrimination in government contracting in a move that agency officials say will level the playing field…

The U.S. Department of Transportation has removed sex and race as criteria for automatic certification in its Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program, according to an interim final rule announced Sept. 30…

The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced a potential end to its Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program, which considers disadvantaged businesses when awarding billions for federal highway and transit projects. The…

A new Interim Final Rule (IFR) issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) fundamentally changes the operation of the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) and Airport Concessions Disadvantaged Business Enterprise…

Federal funding for Chicago Transit Authority improvements is the latest target in the Trump administration’s pressure campaign on Democrats to reopen the government — the second large-scale infrastructure project the…

For months as the new presidential and Gov. Mike Braun administrations announced waves of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion purges, there was a major program long embedded into state and federal…