Revision Military, a company that makes protective eyewear in Essex Junction, has agreed to pay $426,000 to settle claims that it used foreign components in equipment that was supposed to have been made exclusively with U.S. materials.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Revision violated the False Claims Act in its manufacturing work between 2016 and the end of 2020 by using items such as pouches, carrying cases and straps from suppliers in other countries. It sold these items to the Defense Logistics Agency, which supplies equipment to the U.S. military, through a program that requires domestic textiles, the federal prosecutor's office said in a prepared statement.
"Revision has acknowledged these impermissible sales and that employees with oversight of product sourcing, operations and/or sales during this period were aware of the use of non-compliant components in products," the statement says.
“In selling products that it knew to be non-compliant, Revision violated the trust placed in government contractors in furtherance of its own bottom line,” U.S. Attorney Nikolas P. Kerest said in the statement.
Revision was founded in 2001 in Vermont and was sold in 2019 to the private equity firm ASGARD in New York and Merit Capital Partners in Chicago. The conduct that triggered the claims occurred before the new owners took over, according to Kerest's office.
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