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FBI Sting Nets Indictment Of Navy Employee Attempting To Pass Drawings Of Ford Carrier To Egypt

FBI Sting Nets Indictment Of Navy Employee Attempting To Pass Drawings Of Ford Carrier To Egypt
The flight deck of the future USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78). Photo: Defense Daily

A federal grand jury on Friday indicted a Navy employee for attempting to unlawfully handover drawings of the Navy’s first ship of a new class of aircraft carriers, charges that arose from an FBI sting operation in which the suspect was told the documents would be going to the Egyptian government. Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, 35, of Yorktown, Va., faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted on two counts of attempting to export defense articles and technical data about…

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