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The USA government awards contracts to companies with histories of misconduct such as contract fraud and environmental, ethics, and labor violations. In the absence of a centralized federal database listing instances of misconduct, the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is providing such data. They believe that it will lead to improved contracting decisions and public access to information about how the government spends hundreds of billions of taxpayer money each year on goods and services.
Raytheon Company
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Raytheon Company, with 2005 sales of $21.9 billion, is an industry leader in defense and government electronics, space, information technology, technical services, and business and special mission aircraft. With headquarters in
Federal Contract $: $9218.2m
Total Number of Instances: 16
Total Misconduct dollar amount: $ 475.6m
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Instances of Misconduct
1. Aircraft Maintenance Overcharge
“Raytheon Aerospace Company has paid the government more than $400,000 to settle claims that it overcharged the government under a settlement reached on January 8…The government claimed that a Raytheon subsidiary, Beech Aerospace Systems, Inc., double-billed the Department of Defense for certain parts under a 1991 aircraft maintenance contract”, violating the False Claims Act, 31 USC § 3729 et seq.... more»
According to a GAO report cited by Senator Harkin and Representative DeFazio, Raytheon paid $115,310 to settle allegations related to “contractor/subcontractor kickbacks.”... more»
According to a GAO report cited by Senator Harkin and Representative DeFazio, Raytheon paid $2,099,042 to settle allegations of “Defective Pricing.”... more»
4. F-14 and F-15 Aircraft Contract False Claims Act Violations
Hughes Aircraft Company, a Raytheon subsidiary, paid $2,113,000 to settle alleged violations of the False Claims Act, 31 USC § 3729 et seq. According to the government, "contract specifications required Hughes Aircraft Company to perform performance and acceptance tests on traveling wave tubes, components used in radar systems on F-14 and F-15 aircraft. Such testing was not accomplished on three different models of the tubes, and investigation also determined Hughes inflated labor hours billed to the Government.”... more»
5. Improper Classification of Costs
Raytheon paid $2.7 million to settle allegations that the company “charged the Government for costs incurred in marketing products to foreign governments. Since 1986, Raytheon’s cost accounting procedures have provided for separate accounting treatment of foreign and domestic marketing costs. These procedures, and the Cost Accounting Standards of the Federal Acquisition Regulations, require the allocation of Raytheon’s foreign marketing costs to contracts between Raytheon and its foreign customers, and allocation of its domestic marketing costs to U.S. Government contracts. The Government asserted that most of the activities of the Raytheon international development function were foreign marketing activities and that Raytheon improperly classified the costs as ‘division administration’ costs allocable to Government contracts.”... more»
6. Improper Communications Equipment Export
Raytheon settled charges that the company had improperly attempted to export troposcatter communications equipment to
7. Improper Export of Defense Articles and Technical Data
Raytheon Company entered into a Consent Agreement to settle allegations that it violated the Arms Export Control Act, 22 U.S.C. § 2778(e), by exporting defense articles and technical data covered by the U.S. Munitions List to Canada without the required approvals from the Department of State, and in other circumstances, violated the terms and conditions of approvals that were provided by the State Department. Under the agreement, Raytheon will pay a civil penalty of $500,000 and a suspended penalty of $50,000 to be applied to the cost of an independent compliance audit.... more»
8. Electronic Equipment Testing False Claims Act Violations
“Hughes Aircraft Company [paid] the United States $4,050,000 to settle claims the company failed to perform certain tests on components used in advanced electronic equipment such as radar units for military aircraft, missile guidance units and delicate tracking equipment.” Allegedly, “Hughes supervisors instructed employees in the Environmental Test Area… to omit tests, to shorten required procedures,” in violation of the False Claims Act, 31 USC § 3729 et seq.... more»
9. Substitution/Nonconforming Product (1996)
According to a GAO report cited by Senator Harkin and Representative DeFazio, Raytheon paid $82,000 to settle allegations of providing the government with a “Substitution/Nonconforming Product."... more»
10. Substitution/Nonconforming Product (1995)
According to a GAO report cited by Senator Harkin and Representative DeFazio, Raytheon paid $95,000 to settle allegations of providing the government with a “Substitution/Nonconforming Product."... more»
11. United States v. Hughes Aircraft (Department of Defense Contract False Claims Act Violations)
Hughes Aircraft Co. and Hughes Aircraft Mississippi, Inc., subsidiaries of Raytheon, paid “$500,000 to settle allegations that they defrauded the government by not properly testing certain components of torpedoes as required under a military contract and using non-conforming fasteners under several other Department of Defense contracts,” in violation of the False Claims Act, 31 USC § 3729 et seq. “An investigation by the Defense Criminal Investigative Service and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service revealed that Hughes failed to properly test certain electronic components of Advanced Capacity Mark 48 torpedoes sold to the United States Navy. It also concluded that Hughes used flawed fasteners such as stainless steel screws that failed to meet specifications contained in several other military contracts.”... more»
12. Yslava v. Hughes Aircraft (Drinking Water Contamination)
Hughes Aircraft, a subsidiary of Raytheon, allegedly contaminated the drinking water of
13. Raytheon Securities Litigation
“In late 1999, the Company and two of its officers were named as defendants in several class action lawsuits. These lawsuits were consolidated into a single complaint in June 2000, when four additional former or present officers were named as defendants in a Consolidated and Amended Class Action Complaint (the “Consolidated Complaint”) with the caption In re: Raytheon Securities Litigation (Civil Action No. 12142-PBS), filed in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. The Consolidated Complaint principally alleged that the defendants violated federal securities laws by purportedly making misleading statements and by failing to disclose material information concerning the Company’s financial performance during the class period. In May 2004, without admitting any liability or wrongdoing, the Company reached an agreement to settle this class action lawsuit on behalf of the Company and all individual defendants. The terms of the settlement included a cash payment of $210 million and the issuance of warrants for the Company’s stock with a stipulated value of $200 million.”... more»
In June 2006, Raytheon, its former Chairman and CEO, Daniel P. Burnham, and the former Deputy CFO and Controller of Raytheon Aircraft Company (RAC), Aldo R. Servello, settled with the SEC following an investigation into improper disclosure and accounting practices relating to Raytheon’s commercial aircraft manufacturing subsidiary. Pursuant to the settlement, Raytheon agreed to pay a penalty of $12 million and $1 in disgorgement. Burnham and Servello agreed to pay disgorgement of certain past bonus amounts, pre-judgment interest and penalties in the total amounts of $1,238,344 and $34,628, respectively. In March 2007, the SEC settled enforcement proceedings in the same matter against Franklyn A. Caine, the former CFO of Raytheon, Edward S. Pliner, Raytheon's former Controller and former lead auditor, and James E. Gray, the former CFO of RAC. The SEC charged that they were each involved in or aware of the improper practices. Without admitting or denying the SEC's allegations or findings, Caine, Pliner, and Gray agreed to pay a combined total of $1,501,867 to settle the charges.... more»
15. EEOC v. Raytheon Technical Services (Racial Discrimination)
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a suit against Raytheon subsidiary Raytheon Technical Services, alleging that the company "failed to hire charging party as a painter when it became the new contractor at the military base because of his race, black." When it became apparent that the painter had more experience than the other painters that were hired, "the parties resolved the case through a consent decree providing $165,000 to charging party."... more»
16. Water Contamination (Tucson, AZ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered Raytheon and the U.S. Air Force to clean up a migrating plume of contaminated groundwater found near a water treatment plant that serves 50,000 residents of
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