{"id":22728,"date":"2022-02-14T21:53:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T21:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2022\/02\/14\/metallurgist-gets-25-years-for-faking-steel-test-results-for-navy-subs\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:21:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:21:25","slug":"metallurgist-gets-25-years-for-faking-steel-test-results-for-navy-subs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/industry\/2022\/02\/14\/metallurgist-gets-25-years-for-faking-steel-test-results-for-navy-subs\/","title":{"rendered":"Metallurgist gets 2.5 years for faking steel-test results for Navy subs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SEATTLE \u2014 A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2021\/11\/08\/metallurgist-admits-faking-steel-test-results-for-navy-subs\/\" target=\"_blank\">metallurgist in Washington state<\/a> was sentenced to 2 1\/2 years in prison and a $50,000 fine Monday after she spent decades faking the results of strength tests on steel that was being used to make U.S. Navy submarines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elaine Marie Thomas, 67, of Auburn, Washington, was the director of metallurgy at a foundry in Tacoma that supplied steel castings used by Navy contractors Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding to make submarine hulls.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2022\/01\/06\/navy-says-it-ensured-sub-safety-after-faked-strength-tests-surfaced-but-wont-detail-how\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Saipan-Approach.jpeg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Navy says it ensured sub safety after fake strength tests surfaced, but won\u2019t detail how<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Navy&#039;s actions came after a Washington state metallurgist admitted to falsifying sub steel strength test results for decades.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From 1985 through 2017, Thomas falsified the results of strength and toughness tests for about half the steel the foundry produced for the Navy. The tests were intended to show that the steel would not fail in a collision or in certain \u201cwartime scenarios,\u201d the Justice Department said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thomas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-wdwa\/pr\/former-metallurgist-lab-director-pleads-guilty-major-fraud-usa\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty to fraud last November<\/a>. U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle sentenced her in Tacoma, calling her actions a \u201ccrime of pride and ego, that in some way she knew better than those who set the standards,\u201d according to a news release from Seattle U.S. Attorney Nick Brown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sentence was less than half the nearly six years sought by prosecutors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur Sailors and Marines depend upon high quality products and services from our contractors to safely and effectively meet the worldwide mission of the Department of the Navy,\u201d Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said. \u201cWe will continue to insist that our contractors must meet these high standards.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was no allegation that any submarine hulls failed. But authorities said the Navy has spent nearly $14 million, including 50,000 hours of engineering work, to assess the parts and risk to the 30 submarines affected. The Navy says it will incur further costs as it continues monitoring the subs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thomas\u2019 conduct came to light in 2017, when a metallurgist being groomed to replace her noticed suspicious test results and alerted their company, Kansas City-based Bradken Inc., which acquired the foundry in 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bradken fired Thomas and initially disclosed its findings to the Navy, but the company then wrongfully suggested that the discrepancies were not the result of fraud. That hindered the Navy\u2019s investigation into the scope of the problem as well as its efforts to remediate the risks to its sailors, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June 2020, the company agreed to pay $10.9 million in a deferred-prosecution agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When confronted with the doctored results, Thomas told investigators, \u201cYeah, that looks bad,\u201d the Justice Department said. She suggested that in some cases she changed the tests to passing grades because she thought it was \u201cstupid\u201d that the Navy required the tests to be conducted at negative-100 degrees Fahrenheit (negative-73.3 degrees Celsius).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a letter to the court, Thomas said she was mortified at what she had done. Her attorney, John Carpenter, noted in a sentencing memorandum that she did not gain financially by faking the test results. 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