FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                   CIV
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1994                                  (202) 616-2765
                                                         TDD (202) 514-1888

         RESTON, VIRGINIA, FIRM SETTLES FEDERAL CLAIM FOR $250,000

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A Reston, Virginia, company will pay the
United States $250,000 to settle claims it failed to do required
work on electrical substations and other buildings at the Army's
Fort Belvoir, Virginia, installation, the Department of Justice
announced today.
     Assistant Attorney General Frank Hunger, in charge of the
Civil Division, said the settlement stemmed from two qui tam
lawsuits filed against the company, DynCorp, by two former
employees, Gilbert E. Windsor Jr. and Hollis McBroom.
     Hunger said DynCorp failed to perform preventive maintenance
on the substations and also failed to perform the required number
of hours of preventive maintenance on certain other buildings.  
     Under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act,
private citizens can bring a suit on behalf of the government and
share in any awards if the government takes over the suit and its
prosecution is successful.  Windsor and McBroom are free to
continue litigating certain other claims they raised in their
suits.  DynCorp denied the allegations.
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