 The fines resulted from ITT's outsourcing program, in which they transferred night vision goggles and classified information about countermeasures against laser weapons, including light interference filters to engineers in Singapore, the People's Republic of China, and the United Kingdom.They were fined $100 million US dollars, although they were also given the option of spending half of that sum on research and development of new night vision technology.The United States government will assume rights to the resulting created intellectual property.