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Federal Contractor Misconduct Database (FCMD)
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histories of misconduct, including
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August 2010 Virginia Government Computer Outage
Northrop Grumman, under contract with the Commonwealth of Virginia to manage the state’s information technology infrastructure, paid almost $5 million in financial compensation and operational improvements for an August 2010 computer outage that paralyzed state executive agency computers for days. Northrop Grumman will provide monthly invoice credits totaling $1.908 million, spend $2.09 million on improvements to the computer system, and will implement remedial actions valued at approximately $750,000. The company also paid $250,000 for the cost of an independent third-party audit, which blamed the outage and resulting damages on technical failure and human error on the part of Northrop. See related Northrop Grumman instance, “Virginia IT Contract Audit Report.”
- Misconduct Type
- Poor Contract Performance
- Enforcement Agency
- State/Local
- Contracting Party
- State/Local
- Court Type
- N/A
- Disposition
- Fine
- Date of Fine Announcement
- 5/19/2011