The United States sued Mission Support Alliance LLC (MSA), Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMC), Lockheed Martin Services Inc. (LMSI), and Jorge Francisco Armijo for alleged false claims and kickbacks in connection with a subcontract to support the cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Site. (During the time period in question, MSA was owned by Lockheed Martin Integrated Technology, Jacobs Engineering Group, and Centerra Group (formerly Wackenhut Services), and Armijo served as president of MSA.) The lawsuit concerns a support services subcontract MSA awarded to LMSI in 2009. The government alleges the defendants knowingly made false statements to the Department of Energy regarding the amount of profit included in the billing rates for LMSI under the subcontract, causing the government to pay the defendants tens of millions of dollars in inflated claims and unallowable profit. The government also alleges LMC made payments of more than $1 million to Armijo and other MSA executives in order to obtain improper favorable treatment from MSA with respect to the award of the subcontract, in violation of the Anti-Kickback Act.