She got her DBE certification when she started her company 16 years ago and has grown to $7 million-$8 million in annual revenue. About 70% of her business wouldn’t exist without the DBE program ...

Recent legal challenges jeopardize the future of the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program, a long-standing initiative designed to support minority ...

Attorneys for the U.S. Dept. of Transportation called the agency’s disadvantaged business enterprise program “unconstitutional” and asked a judge to block it from setting DBE contract goals ...

The DBE was most recently authorized under the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, as well as through the $105 billion in federal funding for airport and flight safety ...

Recent court rulings and federal policies challenge Minnesota’s DBE programs, impacting women- and minority-owned firms in highway contracting.

Philadelphia painting contractor had argued to US Supreme Court that state DOT, which received federal funds for two projects, was not injured by firm's false DBE participation assertions.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) on May 28 filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky to remove race- and sex-based presumptions from its Disadvantaged ...