WASHINGTON — The top manufacturer of the military's night-vision goggles will pay $100 million
for illegally sharing the classified technology with companies in Singapore, China and Britain, the U.S. Justice Department
said Tuesday.
ITT (ITT) of White Plains, N.Y., the 12th-largest supplier of defense systems to the U.S. military, will also plead guilty today in
U.S. District Court in Roanoke, Va., to two felony charges for outsourcing production of the goggles to unauthorized foreign
companies and lying to the State Department about it, court documents say.
"ITT has put in jeopardy our military nighttime tactical advantages and America's national security,"
U.S. Attorney John Brownlee said in a statement.
The plea agreement requires ITT to pay $20 million to the State Department, $2 million in fines and $28
million to the government to cover the cost of the investigation. ITT, working with the military's night-vision lab at Fort
Belvoir in Virginia, must spend an additional $50 million to develop a new generation of night-vision technology, the plea
agreement said.
The government will retain the rights to all technology the company develops. ITT must also pay for independent
monitors approved by the government to oversee its military technology operations.
