Attorney General Gentner Drummond is asking that Governor Kevin Stitt and Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) ...
A major government contractor is expanding access to disadvantaged small businesses to get federal work–everything from airport concessions to traffic management systems. The Department of ...
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg speaks during an April 2022 event. Buttigieg's Dept. of Transportation has proposed the first rulemaking update to its DBE regulations since 2014. The U ...
The Equity in Infrastructure Project, a group of state and local government agencies that seeks to boost disadvantaged businesses’ opportunities for prime infrastructure construction contracts, has ...
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The longstanding Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program, which the federal government established in 1983, has faced a significant legal setback. Last week, a federal court ...
The U.S. secretary of Transportation is raising concerns about the state's use of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) ...
Some businesses led by women and minorities are sounding the alarm after a federal court last fall temporarily blocked a program meant to prevent discrimination in government-funded transportation ...
The Trump administration has not yet ended a federal program that sets goals for minority participation in federally funded contracts. But MDOT Director Bradley Wieferich told the State Transportation ...
Kansas is one of five states to hit their goals for disadvantaged business enterprise involvement in state transportation department contracts every year from 2014-20. Vogts-Parga Construction owner ...