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Sky Research wins contract for $370,000 Firm still under investigation for allegedly bribing official
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Date: December 10, 2012 12:20PM
Sky Research wins contract for $370,000
Firm still under investigation for allegedly bribing official
By Sam Wheeler
Ashland Daily Tidings
Posted: 2:00 AM December 05, 2012
An Ashland-based research and development firm that has been under investigation since 2010 for allegedly misusing federal funds and bribing a government official was awarded a $370,000 federal contract in September.
In March, federal agents seized thousands of payroll, tax and personal finance documents, as well as digital data and other items from Sky Research Inc. and its owners, Sky and Anne Sky. Investigators are still sifting through the evidence, according to motions granted Nov. 9 in U.S. District Court in Eugene by Judge Thomas Coffin.
The company specializes in aerial mapping, geophysical surveys and remote sensing, and also develops equipment for detecting unexploded material. Those products are put to use in decommissioned military ranges and other areas that harbor the threat of live munitions.
The new contract, awarded Sept. 18 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office in Alexandria, Va., is for the development of aerial metallic-detection equipment.
http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121205/NEWS02/212050306/-1/NEWS13
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Firm still under investigation for allegedly bribing official
By Sam Wheeler
Ashland Daily Tidings
Posted: 2:00 AM December 05, 2012
An Ashland-based research and development firm that has been under investigation since 2010 for allegedly misusing federal funds and bribing a government official was awarded a $370,000 federal contract in September.
In March, federal agents seized thousands of payroll, tax and personal finance documents, as well as digital data and other items from Sky Research Inc. and its owners, Sky and Anne Sky. Investigators are still sifting through the evidence, according to motions granted Nov. 9 in U.S. District Court in Eugene by Judge Thomas Coffin.
The company specializes in aerial mapping, geophysical surveys and remote sensing, and also develops equipment for detecting unexploded material. Those products are put to use in decommissioned military ranges and other areas that harbor the threat of live munitions.
The new contract, awarded Sept. 18 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office in Alexandria, Va., is for the development of aerial metallic-detection equipment.
http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121205/NEWS02/212050306/-1/NEWS13
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