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L-3 unit suspended from new contracts
WASHINGTON, (UPI) -- Defense contractor L-3 Communications declined comment when asked about a company unit's suspension from new government contracts, DefenseNews said.
The suspension, disclosed earlier in a memo a news agency had obtained from the U.S. Air Force's Office of the Deputy General Counsel, apparently stems from alleged improper use by L-3 employees of a U.S. Special Operations Command e-mail system to monitor messages of other L-3 employees to discover if information was being shared with another contracting company.
Members involved in the alleged monitoring belonged to L-3's Special Support Programs Division, formerly called the Joint Operations Group.
L-3, in documents filed June 9 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, said the SSPD unit was continuing to work on contracts in force. It added, however, that the Air Force was considering suspending the parent company of the SSPD unit, L-3 Integrated Systems, from obtaining new government contracts while investigations continue.
L-3, which has headquarters in New York, is a leading defense contractor in the areas of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, secure communications, government services, training and simulation and aircraft modernization and maintenance.
Company-wide sales in 2009 were $15.6 billion, it said in its annual report.
WASHINGTON, (UPI) -- Defense contractor L-3 Communications declined comment when asked about a company unit's suspension from new government contracts, DefenseNews said.
The suspension, disclosed earlier in a memo a news agency had obtained from the U.S. Air Force's Office of the Deputy General Counsel, apparently stems from alleged improper use by L-3 employees of a U.S. Special Operations Command e-mail system to monitor messages of other L-3 employees to discover if information was being shared with another contracting company.
Members involved in the alleged monitoring belonged to L-3's Special Support Programs Division, formerly called the Joint Operations Group.
L-3, in documents filed June 9 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, said the SSPD unit was continuing to work on contracts in force. It added, however, that the Air Force was considering suspending the parent company of the SSPD unit, L-3 Integrated Systems, from obtaining new government contracts while investigations continue.
L-3, which has headquarters in New York, is a leading defense contractor in the areas of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, secure communications, government services, training and simulation and aircraft modernization and maintenance.
Company-wide sales in 2009 were $15.6 billion, it said in its annual report.
