Posted on 05/06/2021 11:48:13 AM PDT by gattaca
The defense contractor Honeywell was recently fined $13 million by the State Department for allegedly violating international arms trafficking laws after it was found that the company exported sensitive technical drawings of American military technologies to China and other countries in 2018.
Honeywell is alleged to have exported technical details of the F-35, F-22, B-1B, C-130, A-7H and A-10 aircraft, as well as the Tomahawk Cruise Missile and the M1A1 Abrams Tank to multiple countries including China, according to The Drive.
According to the report, state officials believe that the transfer of information harmed American national security.
Despite this alleged damage, a news release from the State Department announced that the department and Honeywell had reached a settlement that will see Honeywell pay damages of $13 million, of which the first $5 million will be suspended provided that the company spends the money on strengthening its compliance program.
The release states that the transferred information “contained engineering prints showing dimensions, geometries, and layouts for manufacturing castings and finished parts for multiple aircraft, gas turbine engines, and military electronics to and/or within Canada, Ireland, Mexico, the People’s Republic of China, and Taiwan.”
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Time to nuke china
bttt
A $13 Million fine for a company with an average yearly revenue of $34 billion?
Where’s the deterent here?
Who at Honeywell did this?
Well, a honey of a deal that is!
“Honeywell” did this? What people at Honeywell? I wonder if anything could be gleaned from their names. Wait, I’m not sure I want to know exactly how stupid the people in charge really are.
Gotta keep arms parity to keep them contracts rolling in. Also gotta overestimate the enemy’s capability for the same reason. The US reaction to the MIG-15 Foxbat in the 70s was a prime example of a psyops campaign by the DoD.
Yes, and time to nuke Honeywell too.
In sane times people would hang for this.
immediate confiscation.
They hit them with their purse!
This “punishemnt” is actually a reward.
Its offensive to call this a punishment.
Mig 25 Foxbat
These are voluntary disclosures of ITAR violations for typically licensed transfers. This happens when the markings are incorrect, or it wasn’t clear if the data was actually ITAR, and was adjudicated to be controlled after the fact, etc.
It’s usually indicative of poor internal controls and people unfamiliar with the actual requirements of a license, not subversives trying to aid and abet enemy regimes.
I’m sorry. Isn’t that what this president did/does?
I presume the ChiComs paid a lot more than $13MM for the classified information ...
Execs involved should be hung for treaeon.
A $13 Million fine for a company with an average yearly revenue of $34 billion?
Where’s the deterent here?
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There is none. This fine as a % of Honeywell profits amounts to about $95 to someone earning the not insubstantial salary of $250,000.
The traitors at Honewell (even if it includes CEO Darius Adamczyk) should have been arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced for giving aid and comfort to the enemy of the United States..
Now those in the State Department who reached a settlement with Honeywell (even if it includes Secretary Antony Blinken) should also be arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced for giving aid and comfort to the enemy of the United States.
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