U.S. Navy Engineer Caught Trying To Steal And Sell The Secrets For America's Newest Aircraft Carrier

The Gerald R. Ford is the first of a new class of aircraft carriers under construction for the US Navy. (Chris Oxley/Newport News Shipbuilding)

A Navy Engineer Was Caught Trying To Steal Plans For The US's Newest Aircraft Carrier -- Business Insider

The Defence Department has indicted a civilian Navy engineer for attempting to send schematics for the US’s newest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to an undercover FBI agent who he believed was working for Egyptian intelligence.



Mostafa Ahmed Awwad was a civilian engineer in the Nuclear Engineering and Planning Department at the Navy’s shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia. The 34-year-old Awwad worked at the department since February in 2014. One night in September, an Arabic-speaker called Awwad and set up a meeting the next day, where the caller explained that he was an Egyptian intelligence agent.



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