https://www.law360.com/aerospace?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Aerospace & Defense Copyright 2025 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US Thu, 01 May 2025 22:34:58 +0000 https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2333520?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2333520 Several transgender service members and recruits told the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to reject the Trump administration's bid to lift a federal judge's order prohibiting implementation of the Pentagon's ban on transgender military service, claiming the policy is so deeply rooted in animosity that it won't survive judicial inspection. Thu, 01 May 2025 22:06:00 +0000 https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2333179?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2333179 A California federal judge presiding over a damages trial over how much Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group owes for hacking 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices ruled Thursday NSO's counsel violated multiple pretrial orders, finding corrective instructions are warranted and barring counsel from making the "outlandish" claim Meta Platforms' spyware-attack remediation was trade secret theft. Thu, 01 May 2025 21:56:05 +0000 https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2333189?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2333189 The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals refused to toss some claims that a company seeking over $6 million in damages from the Army Corps of Engineers lodged over delays and cost increases on a hangar reconstruction project at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. Thu, 01 May 2025 19:14:35 +0000 https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2333022?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2333022 A U.S. Army contractor sued a custom cable manufacturer in Texas federal court Thursday, alleging that it is owed more than $1.3 million for specialized cable sets that were never delivered. Thu, 01 May 2025 18:11:23 +0000 https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332748?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332748 The Justice Department is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a petition over the eligibility of telemedicine patents it's accused of infringing, but it said that if the petition is granted, it plans to argue the patents shouldn't have been invalidated as abstract. Thu, 01 May 2025 18:10:55 +0000 https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332913?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332913 A Hawaii federal judge preserved a tenant's claims that he was effectively evicted from his home when a landlord failed to identify or warn of water contamination caused by leaks in 2021 at a U.S. Navy fuel storage facility on Pearl Harbor. Thu, 01 May 2025 17:08:23 +0000 https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2333053?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2333053 A Ninth Circuit decision allowing a Guam group to challenge an Air Force permit renewal application to detonate expired munitions conflicts with precedent and threatens to burden permit applicants, agencies and courts, the U.S. government said in a rehearing petition filed Wednesday. Thu, 01 May 2025 16:51:20 +0000 https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332613?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332613 The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday held off for now a vote to call for a hearing on Ed Martin's nomination for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, a move Democrats say would allow more time to review his record and, they hope, convince enough Republicans to help them block his nomination. Thu, 01 May 2025 16:35:58 +0000 https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2333118?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2333118 Four Raytheon and Nightwing-related defense contractors have agreed to collectively pay $8.4 million to resolve a False Claims Act whistleblower lawsuit alleging that Raytheon knowingly failed to adhere to cybersecurity requirements during contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Thursday. Thu, 01 May 2025 16:03:56 +0000 https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2333309?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2333309 President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he will nominate Mike Waltz to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, while choosing Secretary of State Marco Rubio to take over Waltz's role as national security adviser. Thu, 01 May 2025 13:38:16 +0000 https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2333035?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2333035 Kirkland & Ellis LLP picked up two national security partners from a D.C. boutique, the firm announced Thursday. Thu, 01 May 2025 10:21:44 +0000 https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2305667?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2305667 Serving as an adjunct college professor has taught me the importance of building rapport, communicating effectively, and persuading individuals to critically analyze the difference between what they think and what they know — principles that have helped to improve my practice of law, says Sheria Clarke at Nelson Mullins. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:04:56 +0000 https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332372?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332372 Meta Platforms engineers testified Wednesday during a California federal jury trial over how much Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group owes Meta for hacking 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices that they spent days working around-the-clock to combat NSO's "unprecedented" spyware attack. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:53:46 +0000 https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332696?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332696 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday abandoned more lawsuits, including its Fifth Circuit appeal over a Biden-era policy that expanded the agency's anti-discrimination scrutiny of financial firms, and said it will not focus on enforcing a contested small business lending rule. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:41:42 +0000 https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332672?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332672 A former cybersecurity worker claims he was fired by a Department of Defense contractor after reporting failures to comply with the contract and billing for services the company didn't actually provide, according to a wrongful termination suit filed in Colorado federal court Wednesday. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:49:17 +0000 https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332463?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332463 The Trump administration is urging the U.S. Court of International Trade to nix a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's power to impose his sweeping global tariffs, saying the plain text, history and purpose of an emergency law Trump invoked supported his authority. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:34:27 +0000 https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332664?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332664 The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote in May on whether to ban U.S. operations of telecom equipment test labs owned by foreign adversaries. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:19:14 +0000 https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332428?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332428 The U.S. Senate will consider a bipartisan bill to direct the Federal Communications Commission to publish a list of foreign adversaries' ownership stakes in regulated companies. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:27:03 +0000 https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332388?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332388 A bipartisan bill to require the Federal Communications Commission release more data on disaster-related network outage reports cleared a U.S. Senate committee Wednesday. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:22:45 +0000 https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332617?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/aerospace/articles/2332617 The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday it won't prosecute a NASA contractor research firm whose former employee was sentenced to prison for smuggling aeronautics software to a sanctioned Chinese university, lauding the organization's "exceptional and proactive cooperation" and timely and voluntary self-disclosures of the ex-employee's conduct.