GCIS SPACE SECURITY BRIEFING: Team successfully completes GEO-1 command and control interface testing

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SOURCE: U.S.A.F.

2August2010 4:48amPDT

GCIS SPACE SECURITY UPDATE: LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE,, Calif. (AFNS) -- Researchers in the Space Based Infrared Systems program office at Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center here successfully completed a major system-level test of the interfaces between all SBIRS ground facilities and the GEO-1 satellite, June 30.

"Successful completion of the 5001.2 system-level test demonstrates the program's positive progress towards delivery and launch," said Capt. James Palmer, the SBIRS Systems Test program manager.

The test successfully demonstrated the command and control capability of the GEO-1 satellite using the Tri-band Antenna/Modem Suite modem. The test also demonstrated the ability to perform the process of transmitting and receiving data between the ground system and the satellite using rapidly changing frequencies known as frequency hopping.

Twelve individual objectives were tested, which subsequently demonstrated critical operational functions and capabilities of the SBIRS GEO-1 ground and space system. A team of Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, The Aerospace Corporation and U.S. Air Force personnel conducted these tests for two days.

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Director of NCIS visits Camp Lejeune

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SOURCE: U.S.M.C.

2August2010 4:32amPDT

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C. - Mark Clookie, the director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, traveled from Washington D.C. to Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune recently to discuss with Marine Corps and Navy senior leaders how NCIS can best use its unique capabilities to help commanders accomplish their missions. �We just want to be clear on what they see as their priorities.� says Clookie.

�It is important for me, as the director to get out and see our field offices and meet with our people,� said Clookie. �It�s too easy, as I�m up in Washington, D.C., to get caught up in the politics and the business of running the organization, and thus lose sight of what it is we�re really all about. Coming here and meeting with command representatives helps me to understand and remind myself that we�re about protecting Marines, sailors, their families, their secrets and their equipment.�

NCIS is the primary criminal investigative and counterintelligence arm of the U.S. Department of the Navy. The NCIS force consists of approximately 2,500 personnel worldwide, in 165 locations in 41 different countries.

Clookie said more than 1,000 NCIS personnel have voluntarily deployed and worked shoulder-to-shoulder with the Marines and sailors currently deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, the horn of Africa and many other locations overseas, blending law enforcement capabilities and tactics.

�It�s (the NCIS) force that has to answer to all sorts of threats, whether they be criminal, foreign or internal threats such as the Fort Hood incident,� said Clookie. �It�s a big mission and we�re spread very thin.�

NCIS' history reaches back to 1882, but Clookie said the popular television show, �NCIS,� has definitely made more people aware of the agency's existence.

�The show is actually very entertaining and popular worldwide,� said Clookie. �If anything, it paints one aspect of our mission, much broader than criminal investigation.�

His visit to Camp Lejeune was not his first time aboard the base to familiarize himself with the needs of the Marines and sailors. Clookie added that the field office has done a great job partnering with the base and the local law enforcement. Strong relationships with the community means protection for the troops and their families from things like gang influence, drugs, internet and sexual predators and crime.

Clookie added his firsthand observations from his visit to Camp Lejeune would help him better address, evaluate and support the NCIS mission.

�We owe it to our Marines and sailors that when they�re out fighting the good fight for us, protecting our liberties and doing the mission of the country, not only to we need to do what we can to preserve them and protect them, but they need not to be worried about their families at home,� said Clookie.

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Afghanistan: In Marjah, US forces battle for hearts and minds

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SOURCE: Global Post

1August2010 9:24pmPDT

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: COMBAT OUTPOST COUTU, Afghanistan � The stomach turning �thud� of an exploding homemade bomb on a recent hot July afternoon blew into the small villages and across the wheat fields that make up Lima Company�s area of operations in northern Marjah.

Marines based at Combat Outpost Coutu had left several hours earlier on a routine patrol to link up with and resupply troops from another small base nearby.

Thomas Henderson, a Navy corpsman, or medic, was walking in the middle of the patrol. He had just joined Lima Company that morning, replacing another corpsman who had been shot in the arm and leg three days earlier.

As Henderson�s patrol approached a bottleneck on their route, a man hiding in thick foliage nearby watched quietly. Using a wire connected to a directional anti-personnel mine, the man detonated the charge in the middle of the patrol � where high-value Americans, like commanders or corpsman, are usually located.

The blast tore into Henderson. He was badly wounded by the shrapnel. The Marines stabilized him and called for a helicopter evacuation.

Hours later, as the dirty and sweat-soaked Marines walked back into camp, one of Henderson�s fellow marines wearily took off his helmet.

�Well, that was another shit sandwich,� he said.

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Panel suggests changes in long-term defense planning

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SOURCE: U.S. Army

1August2010 9:08pmPDT

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: WASHINGTON -- A congressionally-mandated panel has recommended broad changes to long-term Defense Department strategies and priorities, including funding a major recapitalization of equipment, revamping the personnel system and expanding the number of people serving in the Navy.

Former Defense Secretary William J. Perry and former National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley gave their final report as co-chairs of the Independent Panel's Assessment of the Quadrennial Defense Review to the House Armed Services Committee today. The QDR is a legislatively mandated review of Department of Defense strategy and priorities.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates appointed 12 of the 20-members on the panel in 2009 to assess the 2010 QDR, which was released in February. The other eight panel members were selected by Congress. The panel's report is called "The QDR in Perspective: Meeting America's National Security Needs in the 21st Century."

The panel found that the QDR did not project out far enough to prepare the military for the long term, Perry said. Rather, he said, the QDR focused primarily on the next four to five years around the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "If I were secretary of defense today, I would have done the same thing," said Perry, who served from 1993 to 1997.

Perry, who served in President Bill Clinton's administration, and Hadley, who served under President George W. Bush, said the panel showed remarkable non-partisanship and was unanimous in its findings.

The panel identified America's four "enduring national interests that transcend politics" as, defense of the homeland; assured access to sea, air, space and cyberspace; a favorable balance of power in western Asia; and overall humanitarian good.

Among the potential threats to U.S. national interests, according to the panel, are radical Islamic extremism and terrorism, the rise of great powers in the East, tensions in the Middle East and competition for resources.

While "soft power" capabilities of diplomacy and civilian support are important, Hadley said, "the world's first order of concern will continue to be security concerns."
Because of that, the panel recommends a recapitalization of military hardware to replace the wear and tear of nine years of war, Perry said. "This will be expensive," he said. "But deferring recapitalization will require even more expenses in the future."

The panel also recommends a restructuring of forces to build up Navy end-strength and improve the Air Force's long-range strike capabilities. Current Army and Marine Corps ground forces are sufficient for the long term, the panel said.

Today's forces are fully capable of handling any threat that may emerge today, Perry said, but the panel believes a buildup of Navy forces in the western Pacific is necessary to counter emerging threats there, notably Chinese militarization.

U.S. allies in the East "are worried about China and they want us there working with China, and we are," Perry said. He added, "I do not anticipate any military conflict with China, and if it were to happen it would be a huge failure of diplomacy."

To avoid a potential arms race in Asia, Perry said, the U.S. military needs to maintain a consistently strong force in the region.

The panel's assessment also calls for a reconsideration of managing resources. Gates' acquisition reform plans are "a good start," Perry said, but they don't go far enough.

Defense officials should require dual competition in all production programs, and set a limit of five to seven years for the delivery of all defined programs, Perry said.

Historically, he said, all successful programs are delivered in four to five years, and programs that drag on beyond 10 years "are guaranteed to cost too much."

Also, Pentagon officials need to clarify roles within the department's acquisitions work force as to who is responsible for the delivery of programs, Hadley said. "It's a muddy picture, with lots of layering and lots of review without clear authority," he said.

In its review, Perry said, the panel was firmly supportive of continuing with an all-volunteer force, but found that changes are needed to reduce personnel costs in maintaining pay and benefits that have become increasingly generous since conscription ended in the 1970s. Specifically, the panel recommends establishing a commission to consider cost savings in pay and benefits and the panel's suggestion to increase length of service for retirement eligibility from 20 years to as long as 40 years.

"I don't need to tell this committee that this is politically charged," Perry said. He added that extending service is important to retain people in whom the military has invested much education and training.

The panel also recommends a re-evaluation of how the military uses National Guard and reserve forces.

"Our panel thinks we really need to re-think our relationship between the active force and the Guard and reserves, and if we need a mobilization capability beyond our current mobilization force," Hadley said. "How much of the Guard and reserve is an operational reserve? How much of it is a strategic reserve? How much of it is for homeland security? All this needs to be re-thought."

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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Debka Report: Israel suspects Turkey is betraying its military secrets to Iran

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SOURCE: DEBKAfile

1August2010 8:54pmPDT

GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Ankara distanced itself further from the West last week by signing a pact with Iran for the exchange of intelligence in real time in

their offensives against Kurdish separatists. Tehran will maintain a permanent intelligence officers' mission at the Turkish general command's operations department, while admitting Turkish officers to its own high command operations center. debkafile's intelligence sources report that while the exchanges are formally limited to the war on Kurdish insurgents, they are certain to spread to other spheres...

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Latest News Updates from the Department of Justice

Latest Updates:

• Criminal Division~Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Charges
• Criminal Division~Two Brothers Plead Guilty in Miami HIV Infusion Medicare Fraud Scheme
• Criminal Division~Florida Businessman Sentenced to 57 Months in Prison for Role in Foreign Bribery Scheme
• Civil Division~Freight Forwarder Panalpina Pays U.S. $375,000 to Settle False Claims and Kickbacks Allegations
• Antitrust~Northwest Airlines LLC Agrees to Plead Guilty for Fixing Prices on Air Cargo Shipments

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SOURCE: DOJ Office Of Public Affairs

31July2010 10:50amPDT

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:

Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Charges

WASHINGTON � A Virginia man pleaded guilty today to charges related to his possession and distribution of images containing child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Heaphy for the Western District of Virginia.

Gary Lee Rimmer, 55, was indicted in June 2010 and charged with one count of possession of child pornography and one count of distribution of child pornography. The defendant pleaded guilty to both counts in U.S. District Court of the Western District of Virginia.

At the plea hearing, Rimmer admitted that while living in Greene County, Va., in 2006, he started an online relationship with a 13-year-old girl from Florida. Throughout their internet conversations and subsequent cellular phone conversations, Rimmer portrayed himself as a 20-year-old man named "Jason." The defendant posted images of a young man and claimed they were of himself. Rimmer had conversations with the girl, whom he ultimately learned was under the age of 16, about starting a sexual relationship. Rimmer mailed the victim sexual items and sent her sexual images via the Internet. When investigators searched the contents of Rimmer�s computer, they found images of child pornography, including images of the victim from Florida with the items he previously mailed to her. Search terms associated with child pornography were also found on the defendant�s computer. A forensic examination of Rimmer�s computer also revealed that he distributed child pornography to a person outside of Virginia during a chat session using Yahoo Messenger.

At sentencing, scheduled for Nov. 1, 2010, the defendant faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for the distribution count and 10 years in prison for the possession count. Each count carries a maximum fine of up to $250,000.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys� Offices and the Criminal Division�s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

This case is being prosecuted by CEOS Trial Attorney James Silver and Assistant U.S. Attorney Nancy S. Healey of the Western District of Virginia. This case was investigated by the Virginia State Police and the Citrus County Florida Sheriff�s Department.

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Two Brothers Plead Guilty in Miami HIV Infusion Medicare Fraud Scheme

WASHINGTON � Two brothers pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Miami for participating in a $13.7 million HIV infusion Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS).

Rolando Nogueira, 48, and his brother, Jose Nogueira, 52, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Adalberto Jordan in the Southern District of Florida to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, to cause submission of false claims to Medicare, and to pay health care kickbacks; one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud; and three counts of submitting false claims. Rolando and Jose Nogueira were originally charged in a March 2010 indictment. At sentencing, scheduled for Nov. 5, 2010, the Nogueiras each face a maximum penalty of five years in prison for the conspiracy to defraud the United States count and each false claims count, and 10 years in prison for the health care fraud conspiracy count.

According to plea documents, Rolando Nogueira was an owner and operator of T&R Rehabilitation Professional Corp., a Miami clinic that purported to provide expensive injection and infusion treatments to patients with HIV. Jose Nogueira worked at T&R. Rolando Nogueira admitted at his plea hearing that he agreed with his co-defendants and others to have them enlist patient recruiters and patients, among others, into a scheme to defraud Medicare. Rolando and Jose Nogueira admitted that they knew the patients at T&R did not need and/or did not receive the purported services, and that it would be necessary to pay kickbacks and bribes to the patients so that T&R could bill the Medicare program for the HIV infusion services that were not medically necessary and/or were not provided.

The defendants admitted that from approximately January 2003, through approximately July 2005, they and their co-defendants caused T&R to submit fraudulent claims to the Medicare program in the amount of approximately $13.7 million. Medicare paid approximately $4.1 million of these fraudulent claims.

Co-defendants Modesto and Victoria de la Vega pleaded guilty on July 23, 2010, and are scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 5, 2010. Co-defendant Gladis Badia is awaiting trial.

Today�s guilty pleas and sentences were announced by Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida; John V. Gillies , Special Agent-in-Charge of the FBI�s Miami field office; and Special Agent-in-Charge Christopher Dennis of the HHS Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), Office of Investigations Miami office.

The cases were prosecuted by attorneys from the Criminal Division�s Fraud Section, including Trial Attorneys N. Nathan Dimock, Joseph Beemsterboer, and former Trial Attorney Michael Padula. The cases were investigated by the FBI and HHS-OIG and were brought as part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, supervised by the Criminal Division's Fraud Section and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida.

Since its inception in March 2007, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations in seven districts have obtained indictments of more than 810 individuals and organizations that collectively have billed the Medicare program for more than $1.85 billion. In addition, HHS's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, working in conjunction with the HHS-OIG, are taking steps to increase accountability and decrease the presence of fraudulent providers.

To learn more about the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT), go to: www.stopmedicarefraud.gov.

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Florida Businessman Sentenced to 57 Months in Prison for Role in Foreign Bribery Scheme

WASHINGTON � A Miami businessman was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for his participation in a conspiracy to pay bribes to former officials of the Republic of Haiti, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida; and Daniel W. Auer, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Miami Field Office.

Juan Diaz, 52, was also ordered by U.S. District Court Judge Jose E. Martinez to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term. Judge Martinez ordered Diaz to pay $73,824 in restitution and to forfeit $1,028,851. Diaz pleaded guilty on May 15, 2009, to a one-count information charging him with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and money laundering.

In his plea, Diaz admitted to conspiring to make corrupt payments to foreign government officials for the purpose of securing business advantages for three different Miami-Dade County telecommunications companies from the Republic of Haiti�s state-owned national telecommunications company, Telecommunications D�Haiti. Diaz concealed these payments in part by laundering the funds through his company, J.D. Locator Services. According to court documents, Diaz paid and concealed $1,028,851 in bribes to former Haitian government officials while serving as an intermediary for the three private telecommunications companies. One of these officials, Robert Antoine, admitted his acceptance of bribes, including bribes from Diaz and pleaded guilty on March 12, 2010, to money laundering conspiracy. Antoine was sentenced to four years in prison.

A portion of the J.D. Locator funds was also laundered by Jean Fourcand of Fourcand Enterprises, who pleaded guilty on Feb. 19, 2010, to money laundering, and was sentenced to six months in prison for his involvement in the scheme. Antonio Perez was, at times, the controller of one of the Miami-Dade County telecommunications companies. Perez pleaded guilty on April 27, 2009, to conspiring to commit FCPA violations and money laundering and is awaiting sentencing.

Joel Esquenazi and Carlos Rodriguez, the owners of one of the Miami-Dade County telecommunications companies; Jean Rene Duperval, who was director of international relations of Haiti Teleco from June 2003 to April 2004; and Duperval�s sister, Marguerite Grandison, were indicted along with Antoine on Dec. 4, 2009. Trial for these remaining defendants is scheduled to begin Dec. 6, 2010, in U.S. District Court in Miami. An indictment is merely an accusation, and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

The Department of Justice is grateful to the government of Haiti for providing substantial assistance in gathering evidence during this investigation. In particular, Haiti�s financial intelligence unit, the Unit� Centrale de Renseignements Financiers, the Bureau des Affaires Financi�res et Economiques, which is a specialized component of the Haitian National Police, and the Ministry of Justice and Public Security provided significant cooperation and coordination in this ongoing investigation.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Aurora Fagan of the U.S. Attorney�s Office for the Southern District of Florida, Senior Trial Attorney Nicola J. Mrazek of the Criminal Division�s Fraud Section and Trial Attorney Kevin Gerrity of the Criminal Division�s Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section. The Criminal Division�s Office of International Affairs also provided assistance in this matter. The case was investigated by the IRS-CI Miami Field Office.

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Freight Forwarder Panalpina Pays U.S. $375,000 to Settle False Claims and Kickbacks Allegations

WASHINGTON � Swiss-based freight forwarder Panalpina Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $375,000 to settle allegations that the company paid kickbacks to employees of Kellogg Brown & Root Inc. (KBR). The kickbacks, which related to shipping orders issued in connection with KBR�s contract with the U.S. Army to provide logistical support to the U.S. military in Iraq and elsewhere, are alleged to violate the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Act.

The settlement resolves allegations that Panalpina provided kickbacks in the form of meals, drinks, tickets to sports events and golf outings to employees in KBR�s transportation department in order to gain favorable treatment on subcontracts under the U.S. military�s Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP III). Under the LOGCAP III contract, KBR was to provide logistical support for U.S. military operations abroad.

Under the terms of the settlement agreement, Panalpina will pay the United States $375,000 to resolve its potential liability under the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Act and common law theories. The United States previously settled claims with Eagle Global Logistics (EGL) (now CEVA) related to the same lawsuit for a total of $5,050,000. The government is continuing to pursue claims against KBR based on its employees taking kickbacks from Panalpina and EGL.

"Kickbacks paid for military subcontracts undermine the integrity of the government contracting process," said Tony West, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division of the Department of Justice. "We will not tolerate wartime profiteering at the expense of taxpayer dollars."

The allegations against Panalpina were originally raised in the course of a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas by David Vavra and Jerry Hyatt, two individuals active in the air cargo business. Under the qui tam, or whistleblower, provisions of the False Claims Act, private citizens can file suit on behalf of the United States and share in any recovery. Vavra and Hyatt will receive $78,750 as their share of this settlement.

This case is being prosecuted as part of a National Procurement Fraud Initiative. In October 2006, the Deputy Attorney General announced the formation of a National Procurement Fraud Task Force designed to promote the early detection, identification, prevention and prosecution of procurement fraud associated with the increase in government contracting activity for national security and other government programs. The Procurement Fraud Task Force is chaired by the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division and includes the Civil Division, U.S. Attorneys� Offices, the FBI, the U.S. Inspectors General community and a number of other federal law enforcement agencies. The Defense Criminal Investigative Service and FBI participated in the investigation of this matter. This case, as well as others brought by members of the task force, demonstrates the Department of Justice�s commitment to ensuring the integrity of the government procurement process.

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Northwest Airlines LLC Agrees to Plead Guilty for Fixing Prices on Air Cargo Shipments

WASHINGTON � Northwest Airlines LLC has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $38 million criminal fine for its role, through Northwest Airlines Cargo, in a conspiracy to fix prices in the air transportation industry, the Department of Justice announced today.

According to a one-count felony charge filed today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Northwest Airlines Cargo, which is no longer in operation, engaged in a conspiracy to fix the cargo rates charged to customers in the United States and elsewhere for international air cargo shipments from at least July 2004 until at least February 2006. Under the plea agreement, which is subject to court approval, Northwest Airlines LLC has agreed to cooperate with the department�s ongoing antitrust investigation.

Air cargo carriers transport a variety of cargo shipments, such as heavy equipment, perishable commodities and consumer goods, on scheduled international flights. During the time period covered by the felony charge, Northwest Airlines Cargo earned more than $80 million from its air cargo services between the United States and Japan.

According to the charge, Northwest Airlines Cargo carried out the conspiracy by agreeing during meetings, conversations and communications on certain components of cargo rates for shipments on routes between the United States and Japan and by levying cargo rates in accordance with the agreements reached. As a part of the conspiracy, Northwest Airlines Cargo monitored and enforced adherence to the agreed-upon rates.

Northwest Airlines LLC is charged with price fixing in violation of the Sherman Act, which carries a maximum fine of $100 million for corporations. The maximum fine may be increased to twice the gain derived from the crime or twice the loss suffered by the victims of the crime, if either of those amounts is greater than the statutory maximum fine.

Including today�s charge, as a result of this investigation, a total of 16 airlines have pleaded guilty or have agreed to plead guilty in the Justice Department�s ongoing investigation into price fixing in the air transportation industry. To date, more than $1.6 billion in criminal fines have been imposed and four executives have been sentenced to serve prison time. Charges are pending against a fifth executive.

The airlines that have pleaded guilty as a result of the department�s ongoing investigation into the air transportation industry are: British Airways Plc, Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd., Qantas Airways Limited, Japan Airlines International Co. Ltd., Martinair Holland N.V., Cathay Pacific Airways Limited, SAS Cargo Group A/S, Soci�t� Air France, Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (KLM Royal Dutch Airlines), EL AL Israel Airlines Ltd., LAN Cargo S.A., Aerolinhas Brasileiras S.A., Cargolux Airlines International S.A., Nippon Cargo Airlines Co. Ltd. and Asiana Airlines Inc. Airline executives who have pleaded guilty as a result of the investigation are Bruce McCaffrey of Qantas, Keith Packer of British Airways, Franciscus Johannes de Jong of Martinair and Timothy Pfeil of SAS. On Aug. 12, 2009, Jan Lillieborg, a citizen and resident of Sweden and former vice president of global sales for SAS Cargo, was indicted for participating in a conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition by allocating customers and coordinating surcharge increases for international air shipments to and from the United States.

Today�s charge is the result of a joint investigation into the air transportation industry being conducted by the Antitrust Division�s National Criminal Enforcement Section, the FBI�s Washington Field Office, the Department of Transportation�s Office of Inspector General and the U.S. Postal Service�s Office of Inspector General. Anyone with information concerning price fixing or other anticompetitive conduct in the air transportation industry is urged to call the Antitrust Division�s National Criminal Enforcement Section at 202-307-6694 or visit www.justice.gov/atr/contact/newcase.htm or call the FBI�s Washington Field Office, Northern Virginia Resident Agency at 202-278-2000.

GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Northrop Grumman Hosts 17 Local Middle School Teachers to Promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

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SOURCE: Northrop Grumman

31July2010 10:45amPDT

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Engineering a piece of paper to fall to the ground at different speeds, hearing from industry experts on pursuing engineering degrees at major universities and learning how to integrate science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) concepts into classroom instruction are what 17 local math and science teachers learned recently during Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) Teachers and Engineers for Academic Achievement (TEAACH) Internship program.

During the two-day event, teachers were exposed to best practice demonstrations including a tour of the company's infrared countermeasures production and test areas as well as rapid prototype production,in addition to hands-on science-related classroom activities. The group also heard from engineering experts from Northrop Grumman, a defense electronics firm with a major business presence in Rolling Meadows.� They provided formal presentations on STEM topics in addition to a keynote address by Jana Sebestik, instructor of mathematics at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

"The TEAACH program allows our engineers to share their enthusiasm about engineering and provide teachers the tools to promote and integrate science and math concepts in their classrooms," said Jeff Palombo, sector vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman's Land and Self Protection Systems Division. "We are committed to supporting diverse and sustainable programs that create innovative educational opportunities while providing local teachers the tools to stimulate students' interest in STEM technologies and careers."

The TEAACH program targets middle-school math and science teachers primarily because the United States is experiencing a shortage of college graduates in these disciplines, a development that bodes ill for the nation's industries that depend on talented engineers, scientists and mathematicians. Because studies have indicated most children make the decision to pursue math and science education and careers during middle-school, Northrop Grumman developed the TEAACH program to engage teachers, key influencers in the lives of students, during these crucial years.

To learn more about Northrop Grumman's TEAACH Program, please visit http://ping.fm/XzwBi.