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Boeing Company

Improper Billing on the Chinook Helicopter Program

Date: 01/20/2012 (Date of Settlement Announcement)

Misconduct Type: Government Contract Fraud

Enforcement Agency: Defense – Army

Contracting Party: Defense - Army

Court Type: Civil

Amount: $4,392,780

Disposition: Settlement

Synopsis: The Boeing Company agreed to pay the United States nearly $4.4 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that Boeing improperly billed the Department of Defense for work on the Chinook helicopter program. The government alleged that several Boeing managers at its Ridley Park, Pennsylvania facility instructed the mechanics assigned to the Chinook program to perform other, non-billable work while separately billing for their time, resulting in the government being charged for work for which it had already paid. Boeing also agreed to “remanufacture” several hundred older Chinook helicopters by overhauling their airframes to accommodate upgrades of the helicopter’s avionics and engines.