General Dynamics Corporation v. The United States

OPINION *

SKELTON, Judge.

The plaintiff, a San Diego, California, based corporation, entered into a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract No. AF04(645)-4 with the United States, on or about January 14, 1955, for the research, development, manufacturing, and testing of the Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, which later became known as the ICBM’s. The project was engaged in as a crash program so that the first missile could be fired in the spring of 1957. The undertaking was of such magnitude that by 1961 over one billion dollars had been incurred in costs and a fee of nearly sixty-seven million…