What is Happening?

• Cubic is both a contractor for New York’s MTA, collecting fare for subways and buses in NYC and also a Defense contractor receiving hundreds of millions from the Trump administration covering Digital Intelligence, Air & Ground Combat Training, Secure Communications, and Edge Computing.

• Every time you tap your phone, credit card or OMNY card you are interacting with and subsidizing this Trump Defense contractor.

• Cubic also provides AI (Artificial Intelligence) chat engagement services for millions of dollars from the MTA. When you are interacting with the MTA chat system, you are providing your data to an AI system managed by a Trump Defense contractor.

• Cubic is also up for a new contract to replace the turnstiles at the subways with new gates, which will be a new contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

• The MTA nor New York State have the ability or resources to prevent a company like Cubic from using the massive amounts of data they are collecting from all of us riding the subway and bus for purposes that could be illegal and violate New Yorkers civil rights.

• Contractually, Cubic has privacy requirements they must adhere to, but it would be almost impossible for a defense contractor to resist the pressure from the Trump administration to share whatever data they are seeking, especially with billions in future contracts on the line.

What Can We Do?

• Demand the MTA, New York City and New York State cease all future contracts with Cubic unless the company breaks up its Fare Collection and Defense division into two separate companies with no mutual owners, beneficiaries or shared resources. Come to the MTA Board meetings!

• If the Private Equity Cubic owners will not break up the transit and defense parts of the business, we are demanding New York immediately instruct the MTA to find alternative vendors for continued operation of fare collection services for our subways and buses, the AI chatbot contract with Cubic be canceled and that they are not awarded future contracts for the replacement of the turnstiles with new gates worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Go to Albany or to your local State Assembly Member or Senator’s offices!

• New York City and New York State MUST enact laws and issue executive orders barring the award of any taxpayer-funded contracts to contractors or vendors that provide material support to the Trump administration’s Department of War, Department of Homeland Security, and/or ICE. Public dollars must not subsidize unlawful, abusive, or unaccountable federal actions—if a company chooses to profit from that agenda, it should not also profit from New Yorkers.

Why Does This Matter?

Our civil rights, privacy and security are the most important thing we have as New Yorkers and we cannot allow a Trump Defense contractor to have even the potential to operate as a spy on our movements in and out of the transit system.