His supervisory responsibilities include cases involving military procurement fraud, overseas bribery and other fraud cases where national security issues arise.

CID investigations frequently include crimes against persons, procurement fraud, and cyber crime.

It is not known whether the contract is directly connected to the investigation of procurement fraud.

Indeed, the serious cases of procurement fraud have cast Government procurement in a harsh and unflattering light.

I support vigorous prosecution of procurement fraud and justifying new acquisitions based on branch need, not political need.

Other Justice Department officials say bankruptcy fraud and whistle-blower lawsuits involving government fraud, like procurement fraud, have also been on the rise.

Twenty-five of the 100 largest Pentagon contractors have been found guilty of procurement fraud in the last seven years, some more than once.

At any given time, more than half of the Pentagon's top 100 weapons suppliers are under investigation for procurement fraud.

Not all these cases involved procurement fraud, but many did; suspensions and debarments of contractors have grown tenfold since 1981 and now run at about 900 a year.

They are the latest in a four-year-old investigation of military procurement fraud.