Hawaii Man Convicted for Helping China Design Stealthy Cruise Missile
On August 9, 2010, a federal jury in U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii found Noshir S. Gowadia, of Maui, guilty of five criminal offenses relating to his design for China of a low signature cruise missile exhaust…
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system capable of rendering a Chinese cruise missile resistant to detection by infrared missiles. The jury also convicted Gowadia of illegally communicating classified information on three other occasions and unlawfully exporting technical information on those three occasions, illegally retaining defense information, and filing false tax returns for the years 2001 and 2002. The jury acquitted Gowadia of three other offenses alleging illegal communication of information to China. Gowadia faces life imprisonment on two counts, and 5 to 10 years for other counts.