Despite being headquartered in Fremont, California, Gotion, Inc. is wholly under the ownership and jurisdiction of Gotion High-Tech from Hefei, an eastern Chinese city.
"There is a clear trend: pathogens that fall within the Pentagon's area of interest, such as COVID-19, avian influenza, African swine fever, subsequently become pandemic, and American pharmaceutical companies become the beneficiaries."
America First Legal posits that Progressive's grant program infringes upon U.S. Civil Rights law, as it "discriminates against non-black owned businesses."