{"id":7456,"date":"2010-10-05T00:25:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T06:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7456"},"modified":"2010-10-04T00:05:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T06:05:22","slug":"supreme-court-to-review-a-12-contract-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/05\/supreme-court-to-review-a-12-contract-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court to Review A-12 Contract Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/2010\/09\/ap-supreme-court-a-12-case-092810\/\">Associated Press report<\/a>, two contractors in the A-12 program, Boeing and General Dynamics, are fighting to avoid a government-demanded repayment of $1.35 billion (plus interest) from the failed aircraft acquisition.\u00a0 The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the contractors&#8217; complaint that the government invoked a state secrets defense that has prevented them from adequately defending their position in the decades-long running contract dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Most people under the age of 40 probably don&#8217;t know what the A-12 <em>Avenger<\/em> even <em>is<\/em>.\u00a0 The over-budget, behind-schedule program to replace frontline Navy aircraft was finally cancelled in 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an Associated Press report, two contractors in the A-12 program, Boeing and General Dynamics, are fighting to avoid a government-demanded repayment of $1.35 billion (plus interest) from the failed aircraft acquisition.\u00a0 The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the contractors&#8217; complaint that the government invoked a state secrets defense that has prevented them from adequately defending their position [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1043,13,842,1044,2,36],"class_list":["post-7456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-a-12-avenger","tag-aircraft","tag-boeing","tag-general-dynamics","tag-military","tag-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}