Aerospace, Defense & National Security

Experience Highlights

• Airbus, as lead counsel, in the disclosures and settlement with the U.S. Department of State's investigations into filings pursuant to the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and assistance with the company's implementation of the Consent Agreement with the Department of State.

• Professional services firm in advising on proposed legislation banning the U.S. Department of Defense and other federal agencies from contracting with consulting firms who are simultaneously providing consulting services to the Chinese government or its affiliates.

• Kongsberg Gruppen in its sale of Hydroid to Huntington Ingalls for an undisclosed amount.

• Fluor Corporation in persuading DOJ to decline intervention in 2018 after sprawling, multi-year protracted investigation, in a qui tam action brought by multiple relators relating to management of hundreds of millions of dollars-worth of materials on a contingency contract performed in Afghanistan.

• L3Harris Technologies in securing a judgment before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals in favor of L3Harris for a deficit arising from a pension segment closure under Cost Account Standard 413. 

• ​​​​​In-Q-Tel, the company established by the CIA to acquire high-technology solutions for the U.S. intelligence community, in providing government contracts, national security and transactional advice.

• Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in protesting a $230 million National Reconnaissance Office bid award, resulting in implementation of correctives that included new proposals, discussions, evaluations, and ultimately an award to SAIC.

• DC Capital Partners in its sale of radio frequency solutions provider QRC Technologies LLC to digital solutions provider Parsons Corporation.

• ​​​​​​American aerospace manufacturer in a $2.2 billion Air Force national security space launch development bid protest.

• ​​​​​​European airframe manufacturer in a multidistrict litigation arising out of an accident over the mid-Atlantic Ocean where all US claims against the client were dismissed on forum non conveniens grounds.

• Helicopter maintenance, repair and overhaul company in a trade secret and trademark infringement suit where the case settled on favorable terms following the district court's decision denying the plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction against our client.