Legal Opinion
United States v. United Technologies Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 18, 2010No. 08-4256, 08-4257PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
Fighter jet engines propel planes faster than the speed of sound, a sight that may be as exhilarating to watch as it must be to experience. Not so the procurement process for awarding contracts to make jet engines.
In the early 1980s, the Air Force set up a bidding process to make fighter jet engines. Attempting to win as many engine contracts as possible, United Technologies manipulated its cost estimates to convince the Air Force to award the company a large share of the work. After the Air Force discovered that United Technologies had played with its numbers,…
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