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About POGO's Federal Contractor Misconduct Database (FCMD)

The government awards contracts to companies with histories of misconduct such as contract fraud and environmental, ethics, and labor violations. In the absence of a centralized federal database listing instances of misconduct, the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is providing such data. We believe that it will lead to improved contracting decisions and public access to information about how the government spends hundreds of billions of taxpayer money each year on goods and services. Report an instance of misconduct »

General Atomics

General Atomics provides research, development and consulting services to the nuclear industry, including nuclear energy production, defense and related applications. Founded in 1955 as a division of General Dynamics, General Atomics and its affiliated companies also manufacture, operate, and service state-of-the-art unmanned aerial vehicles, and provide information technologies, nuclear instrumentation, aircraft launch and recovery systems, superconducting magnets, systems for hazardous material destruction, magnetic levitation systems, and many other products and services for government and industry.

Federal Contract $: $2067.5m

Total Number of Instances: 1

Total Misconduct dollar amount: $ 8.7m

Instances of Misconduct

1. Banks v. General Atomics (Breach of Contract)

Former General Atomics employee Paul Banks alleged that General Atomics failed to honor a promise of partial ownership in a new “Photonics” unit the company formed in 2000. In November 2011, a California state court jury found in Banks' favor on his breach of contract and false promise claims and awarded him $8.9 million in compensatory and $5.8 million in punitive damages. In July 2012, the court entered a final judgment reducing the compensatory damage award to $2.9 million.... more»