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Aurora and Schneider | August 02, 2022

Aurora Innovation, Inc. (NASDAQ: AUR), a leading autonomous vehicle company, and Schneider National, Inc. (NYSE: SNDR), a premier multimodal provider of transportation services, announced a multiphase commercial pilot to haul freight for Schneider’s customers with the Aurora Driver, Aurora’s autonomous technology. This pilot reflects an important step for Schneider toward understanding how to incorporate autonomous trucks into its fleet to improve efficiencies and address the growing...

MeriTalk | February 04, 2020

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking public comment on the Feb. 4 draft of its cyber supply chain risk management guidance. The new guidance, Key Practices in Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management, walks stakeholders through strategies to address possible cybersecurity issues associated with the modern IT supply chain. The draft discusses the complexities of vulnerabilities in a changing cyber supply chain that can make it difficult to secure the system from threats....

CityLab | February 18, 2020

President Donald Trump’s 2021 budget request describes a $810 billion, 10-year surface transportation reauthorization bill as part of a proposed $1 trillion infrastructure investment. But the budget also calls for a 13 percent cut to discretionary spending for the U.S. Department of Transportation, the largest infrastructure-building agency in the cabinet. That, in a nutshell, has been the persistent theme of the Trump administration when it comes to infrastructure: big talk, little action...

MANAGEMENT

GXO Logistics | May 17, 2022

GXO Logistics, Inc. (NYSE: GXO), the world’s largest pure-play contract logistics provider, announced a new partnership with Sente Foundry (“Sente”), a global startup investment and innovation platform that brings corporations, public institutions and investors together to discover high-potential technology startups with inventive ideas and scalable solutions that can help solve today’s greatest supply chain challenges. “Our partne...