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Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation agreed to pay a total of 31.65 million to settle civil and criminal investigations into fraud arising out of its Battlefield Airborne Communications Node and Dynamic Re-tasking Capability contracts with the United States Air Force. NGSC agreed to pay 27.45 million to settle civil allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by overstating the number of hours its employees worked on the contracts. Additionally, NGSC agreed to forfeit 4.2 million in a separate agreement to resolve a criminal investigation into fraudulent billing on the BACN contract. In exchange for admitting its employees' misconduct, making full restitution, and agreeing to coopera...View all