Electronic Data won a Navy contract worth $544 million over 12 years.
But the company has failed to win other large Navy contracts.
Smith quickly ran into trouble with the new Navy contracts.
If they got the Navy contract, that stock would increase in value tenfold.
It seems there was a computer-software company about to get a Navy contract.
He has denied that his decisions about Navy contracts were influenced by campaign contributions.
The Navy contract is scheduled to be completed in 2006.
The yard closed on 31 December 1976 after the Navy contracts ran out.
The firm has since won a combined $43.5 million in Navy contracts and congressional funding.
Kaman said it expects to receive a Navy contract soon for the order.