On June 15, 2015, a civilian engineer in the U.S. Navy pled guilty to attempted espionage in relation to his attempt to circumvent a U.S. Navy computer system to provide schematics of a new nuclear aircraft carrier to the Egyptian government. The defendant began working for the Nuclear Engineering and Planning Department at the Norfolk Navy Shipyard in February 2014 and soon thereafter made efforts to contact Egyptian officials.
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