Posted on 05/07/2021 7:37:43 AM PDT by Enlightened1
The U.S. State Department said this week it recently fined U.S. defense contractor Honeywell $13 million after the company was found to have “harmed national security” by sharing sensitive information about U.S. military aircraft with China and other countries.
The U.S. State Department said on May 3 it had reached a settlement with Honeywell on 34 charges related to 71 drawings it shared with China, Taiwan, Ireland, Canada, and Mexico from 2011-2015. Honeywell’s sharing of the documents violated the U.S. Arms Export Control Act and the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations.
“The U.S. Government reviewed copies of the 71 drawings and determined that exports to and retransfers in the PRC [People’s Republic of China] of drawings for certain parts and components for the engine platforms for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, B-1B Lancer Long-Range Strategic Bomber, and the F-22 Fighter Aircraft harmed U.S. national security,” the charging document read.
The 71 drawings included “technical data that contained engineering prints showing dimensions, geometries, and layouts for manufacturing castings and finished parts for multiple aircraft, gas turbine engines, and military electronics,” the U.S. State Department said in a statement on Monday.
“Honeywell allegedly used a file-sharing platform to inappropriately transmit engineering prints … for manufacturing castings and finished parts for multiple aircraft, military electronics and gas turbine engines,” Defense News reported on May 4. The materials allegedly shared by Honeywell included details of the following U.S. military equipment, according to the news site:
[T]he F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the B-1B Lancer long-range strategic bomber, the F-22 fighter, the C-130 transport aircraft, the A-7H Corsair aircraft, the A-10 Warthog aircraft, the Apache Longbow helicopter, the M1A1 Abrams tank, the tactical Tomahawk missile; the F/A-18 Hornet...
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That’s a ridiculous slap on the hand.
Did the Clintons pay a fine? Just wondering.
I’m sure they got more than $13 million for their betrayal.
Did Joe and Hunter get their cut?
China will gladly pay the fine.
Cost of doing business.
People should be getting led away to firing squads...
Or Loral??
” U.S. Fines Honeywell $13 Million for Sharing Military Specs with China”
So when do the trials for treason start?
China already has all of this stuff anyway. What Honeywell competitor files did China give to Honeywell?
How many Chinese work at Honeywell ?
Once upon a time people were hung for this type of behavior. Sometimes you just wish for the good old days.
Someone(s) should be swinging from a rope. What the hell is Lockheed doing with jet engine part drawings. This leads to the Chinese to identifying material science on selected jet engine hardware.
Wasn’t the old “fine” for this sort of activity a firing squad?
$13 million is a rounding error for Honeywell; it should have been $50 BILLION and prison for all the execs for treason with the stinking ChiComms.
I was thinking the same thing.
Looks like some state department officials also got a piece of the action.
Chicken feed. Should have been very much worse. Loss of contracts , etc.
$13M is less than couch cushion change.
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