HILLSBORO, Ore., March 30, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC), a leading diversified scientific instruments company, announced that it has filed suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to collect approximately $2.4 million of receivables owed to FEI by Cambridge Global Systems of Chantilly, VA. Cambridge Global Systems, a subsidiary of Cambridge Systems, Inc., purchased three systems from FEI on behalf of a U.S. Federal agency and a prime contractor through a set-aside program. FEI has delivered the systems to its end-user customers. The government agency and its contractors have paid Cambridge Global Systems, but Cambridge has not paid FEI.