NetCracker Technology Corp. has agreed to pay $11.4 million, and Computer Sciences Corp. has agreed to pay $1.35 million to resolve a case, brought by the government under the False Claims Act, that they used individuals without security clearance on a DoD project.
In 2008, Computer Sciences Corporation was awarded a contract from the Department of Defense to create communications software for the DoD’s Defense Information Security Agency (DISA.) The company then subcontracted part of the work to Netcracker Technology, who used Russian services in order to lower costs.
This was brought to light in 2013, when former NetCracker employee John Kingsley said that the company had hired Russian programmers living in and around Moscow, who lacked the contractually required security clearance to work on DISA. Because of this, both NetCracker and Computer Sciences Corporation had breached the DoD contract
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