Remington Rand Inc. v. United States

Plaintiff sues for $126,187.96 which allegedly represents its cost in certain development work on the image orthicon pickup tube, a supersensitive electronic device designed for television cameras in connection with guided missile weapons. Recovery is said to be grounded on either an implied contract within our general jurisdiction1 or section 17 of the Contract Settlement Act of 1944.2

This litigation grew out of a contract between plaintiff and the Army’s Aircraft Radio Laboratory (hereinafter ARL) dated June 13, 1944, and executed July 11, 1944. Under this contract plaintiff agreed to…