(Bloomberg) — A whistleblower said Raytheon Technologies Corp. paid him $1 million after he was punished for revealing that he was instructed to submit false test results to the US Air Force on the company’s troubled ground system for GPS satellites.

Former Raytheon engineer Bruce Casias said in an email that he received the million-dollar wire payment on Thursday. That was after the defense contractor let a mid-October deadline pass to mount a Supreme Court challenge to a 3-0 ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upholding a jury award in his favor.

Raytheon’s program to create new ground stations for Global Positioning System satellites remains years behind the original schedule and has soared in cost from $3.9 billion to an estimated $6.3 billion.

Casias, of Denver, presented evidence at trial to show Raytheon demoted him for reporting to management that a superior told him to falsify test results starting in November 2015 on the Raytheon network of worldwide ground stations and antennas called the Operational Control System, or OCX, the appeals court said in its July ruling.

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Raytheon spokesman Chris Johnson said the Waltham-based company had no comment on the case. Company officials say the ground station project is now on track.

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