A Tennessee company has pleaded guilty to sending defense materials for unmanned aerial vehicles to China. The firm, Atmospheric Glow Technologies (AGT), pleaded guilty to 10 counts of illegally exporting plasma and aerodynamic technology to an individual in China. In 2004, AGT and the University of Tennessee began work on the drone program for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. Under the contract, due to the sensitive nature of the program, the parties allegedly agreed that no foreign nationals would work on the project that involved plasma actuator technology to increase the performance of a plane’s aerodynamics.