Lucent Technologies World Services Inc., a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent, was awarded a $250 million U.S. Army contract to build the system for Baghdad and 15 other cities in 2004.
The project’s former manager, Geoffrey Willson, said in a lawsuit in federal court in Seattle that Lucent lied to the U.S. government when it claimed to have completed testing of the system’s radio transmission sites and of the network as a whole.
The Justice Department announced Friday that Lucent agreed to settle the lawsuit, which Willson brought on behalf of the U.S. government. As the whistleblower, Willson keeps $758,000 of the $4.2 million payout.
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