Those revelations emerged in court filings Monday in Harvard’s lawsuit over the Trump administration’s nearly $3 billion in funding cuts. The sweeping cuts, which Harvard argues are illegal, have defunded medical research on cancer and tuberculosis , for example, and shuttered research programs for NASA. As part of the litigation, Harvard has obtained extensive government records showing the funding terminations were haphazard and “arbitrary,” according to the university’s lawyers. The official, a director at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as DARPA, said a Harvard research team funded by the grant had reached a “pivotal juncture” in a project...