Alderman Gilbert Villegas

JOHNSON & JOHNSON | March 31, 2020

The Trump administration has made another move in the race to combat and stop the viral outbreak of COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, around the globe. The Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) recently signed a deal for a $456 million order with Johnson & Johnson’s Pharmaceuticals arm Janssen. The order has been specified as a “new vaccine asset for 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).” It is the largest amoun...

GOVERNMENT BUSINESS

Tortuga Logic | December 22, 2020

Tortuga Logic® Inc., a cybersecurity organization who has pioneered ASIC, FPGA and SoC equipment security arrangements, today reported that it has been granted a SBIR Phase III agreement from the US Government to cultivate the improvement of cutting edge equipment security arrangements. Ansys will team up with Tortuga Logic to propel side-channel spillage examination work processes. "Software security has attracted considerable attention for more than a decade and signifi...

Twitter | April 20, 2020

Twitter will not be able to reveal surveillance requests it received from the US government after a federal judge accepted government arguments that this was likely to harm national security after nearly six-years of legal battle. The social media company had sued the US Department of Justice in 2014 to be allowed to reveal, as part of its “Draft Transparency Report”, the surveillance requests it received. It argued its free-speech rights were being violated by not being allowed to r...

GOVERNMENT BUSINESS

GovPilot | January 15, 2022

A transition from paper to digital processes is underway in Maplewood, New Jersey where local officials have sought greater efficiency in municipal operations and constituent services. The township recently partnered with GovPilot, a Hoboken, New Jersey based provider of cloud-based government management software. Officials from Maplewood are working with GovPilot to implement a number of digital services that aim to make operations more efficient and services more convenient for ...