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NORFOLK, Va. – A Navy civilian engineer has been indicted on charges he tried to steal schematics of an aircraft carrier under construction and have them sent to Egypt.
Federal prosecutors said Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, 35, of Yorktown, Virginia, was arrested Friday on two counts of attempted exportation of defense articles and technical data.
Prosecutors said Awwad tried to steal technical data in the designs of the USS Gerald R. Ford in late October. Awwad provided computer drawings downloaded from the Navy to an undercover FBI agent posing as an Egyptian intelligence officer.
The Ford is the lead ship in a new class of carriers. It is scheduled for delivery to the Navy in 2016.
According to an FBI affidavit, Awwad began working for Navy last February in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard’s nuclear engineering and planning department.