ATK Launch Systems, who manufactures flares used by the military as illumination for nighttime combat missions, has agreed to pay $36.9 million to resolve allegations that the company sold the military flares which it knew were dangerously defective.  According to the complaint, as little as a one foot drop could potentially cause the flares to ignite, a fact which was revealed to the military only after the U.S. Navy declined to purchase the flares because they failed to pass its tests.  The company, however, had allegedly been aware of the problem long before the Navy conducted those tests and had declined to conduct its own testing or notify the military of the issue.

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