Noshir Gowadia
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Noshir Sheriarji Gowadia is a former design engineer at Northrop Corporation. He was involved in the creation of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and has been accused of selling classified military information about the B-2 Spirit to foreign governments, including the People's Republic of China, Israel, Germany, and Switzerland.
Gowadia was born in India, but immigrated to the United States and is now a naturalized U.S. citizen. He joined Northrop in November 1968, and continued to work there until April 1986. As a design engineer, Gowadia was reportedly "one of the principal designers" of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, who "conceived and conceptually designed the B-2 Bombers entire propulsion system" and billed himself as "the father of the technology that protects the B-2 stealth bomber from heat-seeking missiles." [1] In 1999, he founded N.S. Gowadia, Inc., his own consulting company.
In October 2005, he was interviewed twice by the authorities, and his home in Hawaii was searched. Later the same month, he was arrested, and charged with giving secret defence information to unauthorized parties. According to prosecutors, the information mostly related to the B-2 project, and at least eight foreign countries were shown documents relating to the B-2's stealth technology. In an affidavit, Gowadia admitted to transmitting classified information, and stated that he did so "to establish the technological credibility with the potential customers for future business".
On October 26 he was charged with one count of "willfully communicating delivering or transmitting national defense information to a person not entitled to receive it, which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation" in the United States District Court in Maui, Hawaii. November 2006, Gowadia was also charged with helping to design stealth technology for Chinese missiles, and with money laundering. His trial is scheduled for July 2007.
