Aerospace & Defense

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Latest News in Aerospace & Defense

  • July 21, 2025

    Huawei Chips Block Some TVs' NextGen Signals, FCC Told

    Pearl TV is calling on SiliconDust to remove Huawei-made components from its products, which rebroadcast TV signals from viewer antennas over home networks, saying the chips in its HDHomeRun Flex devices are unable to broadcast certain Next Generation TV programming.

  • July 21, 2025

    FinCEN Gives Investment Advisers Reprieve On AML Rule

    The U.S. Department of the Treasury has pushed back the compliance date for a rule requiring investment advisers to report suspicious activity to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network while it weighs the future of the Biden-era regulation.

  • July 21, 2025

    Lawmakers' Plan To Target Bid Protesters Seen As Unfounded

    Congress's quest to deter frivolous protests from companies that fail to win Pentagon contracts exposes a gap between lawmakers and attorneys who refute the problem, and worry that small businesses that get penalized could get shut out of the procurement process.

  • July 21, 2025

    Gibson Dunn-Led L Catterton Leads $800M Plug In Flexjet

    Private aviation company Flexjet, led by Jones Day, on Monday revealed that it has secured an $800 million equity investment from a consortium of investors led by private equity giant L Catterton, a move that the company said marks the largest equity investment in the history of private aviation.

  • July 21, 2025

    2nd Circ. Affirms Big Banks' Win In Terrorism Financing Fight

    A New York federal judge was right to dismiss a suit seeking to hold Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and Danske Bank liable for aiding and abetting terrorist bombings in Afghanistan, a Second Circuit panel ruled Monday.

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