Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has agreed to pay $11.75 million to resolve a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging that it charged inflated prices under grants to train first responder personnel to prevent and respond to terrorist attacks.
Between 2002 and 2012, the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) received six federal grants from the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to train first responder personnel to prevent and respond to terrorism events involving explosive devices. New Mexico Tech awarded subgrants to SAIC to provide course management, development, and instruction. The United States alleged that SAIC’s cost proposals falsely represented that SAIC would use far more expensive personnel to carry out its efforts than it intended to use and actually did use, resulting in inflated charges to the United States.
The whistleblower who filed this False Claims Act lawsuit will receive a share of the government’s recovery.
For more information on this case, click here: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2013/June/13-civ-668.html