Defense Contractor Nailed for $13.7 million
8th October 2014
Virginia contractor DRS Technical Services agreed to pay U.S. $13.7 million to settle charges of overbilling the Army and Coast Guard, the Justice Department said Tuesday. The government contends that from January 1, 2003 to December 31, 2012, DRS billed CECOM for work performed by individuals whose job qualifications did not meet all the qualifications prescribed by the contracts for the labor categories under which their efforts were billed, thus falsely increasing the amount of money DRS claimed and CECOM paid. The settlement was the result of an organized effort by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland, the Civil Division, the Defense Contract Audit Agency, the Army’s Criminal Investigative Command’s MPFU and the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General’s Defense Criminal Investigative Service.