For years L3 had a consistent "bread and butter" follow-on contract award with WPAFB however a few years ago L3 lost this award to Sierra Nevada Corp (SNC). How/why did this happen? Simple: SNC employed a full-time employee down the street from WPAFB who just "by chance" was also an Air Force Reservist whose role with the USAF was as a Contracting Officer. This USAF Reservist used proprietary cost and pricing data supplied from competitors proposals submitted to the USAF and "cross-pollinated" by including competitive information during his role at SNC. These violations of the Procurement Integrity Act (PIA) and numerous conflicts of interest are presently occurring out of Eglin AFB whereby the USAF Reservist is both a Contracting Officer and full-time Raytheon employee.
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Playbook known.
This nonsense and fraud will end soon.