Eight contracts suspected of being "unduly influenced" by a disgraced US Air Force contracting official have been added to an ongoing investigation by the Department of Defense's Office of Inspector General (IG). Darleen Druyun, the former USAF acquisition official jailed in November, is now suspected of tainting 15 contract awards during her 10-year tenure at the Pentagon.
Contracts now included in the IG probe include four more deals awarded to Boeing and one awarded to Lockheed Martin on the C-5 Avionics Modernization Programme. The Boeing deals involve work on KC-135 maintenance, sensors for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System and two contracts to acquire the 737-based C-40.
STEPHEN TRIMBLE / WASHINGTON DC
Source: Flight International
