On May 1, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Raytheon Company (Raytheon), RTX Corporation, and Nightwing Group LLC, and Nightwing Intelligence Solutions LLC (collectively, Nightwing), have agreed to pay $8.4 million to resolve whistleblower allegations that Raytheon violated the False Claims Act by failing to comply with cybersecurity requirements in contracts or subcontracts with the Department of Defense (DoD).

The case stems from a qui tam lawsuit filed by Branson Kenneth Fowler, Sr., a former Director of Engineering with Raytheon, who is set to receive $1,512,000 of the settlement.

In 2024, Nightwing acquired Raytheon’s Cybersecurity, Intelligence, and Services business. The alleged misconduct covered in the settlement occurred while that business was still under Raytheon.

According to the DOJ, “Raytheon and its then-subsidiary Raytheon Cyber Solutions, Inc. (RCSI), failed to implement required cybersecurity controls on an internal development system that was used to perform unclassified work on certain DoD contracts.”

“Raytheon and RCSI failed to develop and implement a system security plan for the system, as required by DoD cybersecurity regulations, and failed to ensure that the system complied with other cybersecurity requirements contained in the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) 252.204-7012 and Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.204-21,” the government further alleges.

“Cyber threats have grown in size and reach in...

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