Earlier this month, the former owner of two New Jersey contracting firms, Hannah Robert, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for violating the Arms Export Control Act. According to documents filed in the case in U.S. District Court, between June 2010 and October 2012, Robert engaged in a conspiracy to export military technical data to India without U.S. State Department licenses. The technology in question involved technical drawings used to develop parts for torpedo systems used in nuclear submarines, military attack helicopters and F15 fighter aircraft. Robert transmitted the military drawings for these parts to India by posting the technical data to the password protected website of a New Jersey church where she was a volunteer web administrator.
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