Legal Opinion
McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. United States
United States Court of Federal Claims
Decided December 13, 1996No. 91-1204CPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
HODGES, Judge.
In 1988 plaintiffs McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics contracted with the Navy to develop the A-12, a carrier-based attack aircraft, to replace the Navy’s aging A-6. During the course of performance, the contractors experienced numerous problems, particularly with confining aircraft weight growth to the range specified under the A-12 full scale engineering and development contract. By late 1990, they were behind schedule and costs exceeded their estimates. The contractors requested equitable adjustments *272totaling $1.401 billion to compensate for impossibility…
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