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Friday, Pemco amended its protest to specifically include questions about a possible conflict of interest involving Concurrent Technologies, the parent company of Commonwealth Research Institute, and Boeing, Reuters reported. The Air Force declined to comment on the cause or circumstances of Riechers’ death. Pemco and Boeing declined to comment on the matter. Pemco spokeswoman Doris Sewell also declined to comment on the GAO protest, saying details can be made public only by the agency.

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Commonwealth and its parent company, Concurrent Technologies Corp., have received hundreds of millions of dollars in grants and contracts from the Pentagon in recent years, The Post reported. The company, registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a nonprofit charity, also has received more than $100 million in earmarks from lawmakers.

http://www.al.com/news/press-register/index.ssf?/base/news/1192526223114750.xml&coll=3 "For two months, Riechers held the title of senior technical adviser and received about $13,400 a month at Commonwealth Research Institute, or CRI, a nonprofit firm in Johnstown, Pa., according to his resume. But during that time he actually worked for Sue C. Payton, assistant Air Force secretary for acquisition, on projects that had nothing to do with CRI, he said. http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003658688

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An Air Force internal communication announcing Riechers’ death said that the cause of death appeared to be suicide. The sheriff’s office is investigating the cause of death and could not confirm the appearance of a suicide.

But the Air Force released an official statement Oct. 15, saying Riechers had “passed away this weekend,” and that “details of this incident are under investigation by the Loudoun County [Va.] Sheriff’s Office.

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