Titan Corporation is a United States-based company headquartered in San Diego, California. The company is a provider of information and communications systems solutions and services to the Department of Defense, intelligence agencies, and other federal government customers. As of 2004, the company has approximately 12,000 employees and annualized sales of approximately $2 billion. San Diego County in the Southwest corner of California. ... State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ...

The company employees as a public military contractor whom some of the nearly 4,000 translators may have implications in the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in 2004. {{{mWf}}} Caution: This article contains several potentially morbid photographs that depict nude, abused, and deceased persons. ... Map of Iraq highlighting Abu Ghraib The Abu Ghraib prison or Abu Ghurayb prison is in Abu Ghraib, an Iraqi city 32 km west of Baghdad. ...

In May 2004, a civilian contractor and Titan employee Adel Nakhla, an Egyptian-born American citizen, was "terminated" from the job, after he admitted he held down inmates that were "nude, handcuffed to each other and placed in sexual positions." (as described by the Taguba Report) Adel L. Nakhla is an Egyptian-American civilian translator employed by the private military contractor Titan Corporation. ... ...

The company was in the process of being acquired by the Lockheed Martin Corporation but the attempted merger fell through on June 26, 2004: Lockheed/BAE/Northrop F-35 Lockheed Trident missile C-130 Hercules; in production since the 1950s, now as the C-130J Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is an aerospace manufacturer formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. ...

Lockheed Martin Corporation announced that it has terminated the merger agreement with The Titan Corporation because Titan did not satisfy all the closing conditions on or before June 25, 2004. Under the terms of the amended merger agreement, either party could terminate the merger agreement if Titan either (i) had not obtained written confirmation from the Department of Justice that the investigation of alleged Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations was resolved as to Titan and the Department did not intend to pursue any claims against Titan; or (ii) Titan had not entered into a plea agreement on or prior to June 25, 2004, provided that the terminating party had not contributed to the failure to consummate the merger through a breach of its obligations in any material respect. Titan did not satisfy either requirement.

On March 2nd 2005, the company admitted to illegally providing $2 million to the re-election campaign of President Mathieu Kérékou of Benin, and agreed to pay $28 million in penalties. March 2 is the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... (Ahmed) Mathieu Kérékou (born September 2, 1933) is the president of Benin. ...

External link

• Company history (http://www.titan.com/about/)
• BBC news article on the fine (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4310331.stm)