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July 3rd, 2009
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The Justice Department has joined a whistleblower fraud suit against contracting giant Science Applications International Corp. and two former top officials at the Naval Oceanographic Major Shared Resource Center in Mississippi.

The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi in May, stems from SAIC’s win of a $3.2 billion contract for high-end information technology support in 2004. SAIC teamed with subcontractors Lockheed Martin Space Operations and Applied Enterprise Solutions (AES) to win the work.
With the economy slumping and people looking for ways to save money, many tightened their belts last year by reducing charity donations.
The National Federation of Federal Employees is mourning the loss of President Richard Brown, who died Tuesday. He was 47.

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