L-3 Communications Corporation, Vertex Aerospace LLC and L-3 Communications Integrated Systems LP  (“L-3”) have agreed to pay $4.63 million to settle allegations that the companies overcharged the military for the time spent by independent contractors at pre-deployment processing sites.  According to DOJ:

L-3 performed rotary aviation maintenance and support services for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt and Kuwait under contracts with the U.S. Air Force.  The United States alleges that from 2006 through November 2011, L-3 knowingly overcharged the government for time their independent contractors spent at the CRCs by billing for each individual not based on the actual time that individual spent at the CRC, but based instead on the earliest arrival or latest departure time of any other individual who also processed through the center that same day.

The suit was initiated by a whistleblower who had formerly served as an independent contractor at L-3.  The whistleblower will receive $798,675 for bringing the alleged fraud to light.

Read the full DOJ press release, “Defense Contractor Agrees to Pay $4.63 Million to Settle Overcharging Allegations”