The Department of Justice (DOJ) joined a whistleblower lawsuit filed by two former Georgia Tech compliance officers who alleged that the institute violated the False Claims Act by knowingly failing to meet cybersecurity requirements in a Department of Defense (DoD) contract.
The DOJ’s complaint, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, alleged that Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and Georgia Tech Research Corp. (GTRC) failed to fully implement cybersecurity controls required by DoD regulations for its contracts.
