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The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) is a Non Governmental Organization to help facilitate conversations between the US Government, Military, Defense Contractors and students. AFCEA International is headquartered in [...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFCEA
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http://www.afcea.org/signal/signalscape/index.php/2008/06/professor-zhong-l-wang%E2%80%99s-nano-research-group/Professor Zhong L. Wang’s Nano Research Group (by: Henry Kenyon)
Nanostructures have a range of applications in electronics and materials research, but before they can be mass-produced, the processes to grow them consistently and accurately must be understood. A part of the Georgia Institute of ...
http://www.afcea.org/signal/signalscape/index.php/2008/06/rensselaer-polytechnic-institute/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (by: Henry Kenyon)
This academic institution is heavily involved in nanotechnology research and hosts the National Science Foundation’s Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center on its campus. The Institute is especially active with carbon nanotubes—tiny ...
http://www.afcea.org/signal/signalscape/index.php/2008/06/seizing-the-future/Seizing the Future (by: Helen Thompson)
This month, Lt. Gen. Harry Raduege Jr. examines transition plans—his favorite, in particular, which is the 500-day plan. He discusses his experience using such a plan at CENTCOM and at DISA, and the benefits of doing so over, say, ...
http://www.afcea.org/signal/signalscape/index.php/2008/06/nanoscale-science-research-group-nsrg/Nanoscale Science Research Group (NSRG) (by: Henry Kenyon)
Scientists need tools to study, measure and manipulate nanoscale objects. NSRG, a collection of research groups associated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is poised to develop these tools. The NSRG’s work explores ...
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Do I void the contract if I ask the contractor to go ahead with something known to be unfeasible ?
I would have though so.
But this site http://www.afcea.org/
signal/articles/anm..says
"The first Collins submarine was commissioned inl 1996 with known combat system processing and interface problems. The legacy Oberon CSS MK2 distributed architecture could not handle the heavy contact load that today’s missions require. Two years later, a fast-track interim software fix was begun with some combat system functions deleted. The following year, program management and defense acquisition was completely reorganized. In 2000, a request for proposals was put out to replace the SFCS MK 1, and some U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) processor units from the BSY-1 on Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarines were installed as an interim rig until a new design would be available.
In June, Cirrus and DRS won a fast-track bid, and two finalists for a new combat display system were Raytheon and STN Atlas Elektronik. As of early this year, the six Collins submarines still lacked full mission requirement integrated combat systems eight years after the problems were first noted."
Of course, this is a hypothetical case.
Real life might be different.
"in the real world, a single glimpse
is different"
うつつにひとめ
見しごとはあらず
utsutsu ni hitome
mishigoto wa arazu
(Ono-no-komachi of 9th century, with no record of birth and death, leaves us splendid poems mainly describing dreams and flow of time. Followings are the most famous her poems
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ny3k-kbys/co...
It is fraudulent to include in a contract a condition that you know cannot be satisfied, and to accept something of value under that contract.
For example, I could agree to give you $10 for one of your socks; but two days before we sign the contract, moths eat all your socks.
You sign the contract anyway and I send you the $10. You've committed fraud, because you know you cannot perform your end of the deal, but you took my money.
A contract is a quid pro quo -- "this for that." Both parties must receive something of value for a contract to be valid, and both parties must have reasonable expectation that they, and the other party, can satisfy the terms of the contract.
For example, if I offer you 100 trillion dollars for one of your socks, you know I can't pay that (since total world wealth is only about 30 trillion dollars). Since you have no reasonable expectation that I can complete the terms of the contract, even if we both sign it and you send me the sock, the contract is void.
The passage you note doesn't suggest that a condition cannot be satisfied; it suggests there's a known issue that both parties reasonably believe can be resolved, or perhaps even that both parties agree can be ignored given the other benefits of the contract.
It may well be that both parties expect the problem to be resolved and proceed with the rest of the contract, acknowledging that the problem must be solved as part of the contract.
In the case you note, both the Navy and the contractor clearly believe they could resolve the problem. They made efforts to resolve the problems. They discovered the problem couldn't be fixed, so the contract was abandoned.
That's not fraudulent; it's a gamble that didn't work. Neither party went in to the contract under false intentions; both wanted to fix a known problem, both reasonably expected it could be fixed, and both were getting value outside of the problem area.
They just guessed wrong. There was no intent to defraud, not was one party hiding a materially important fact from the other. Thus, there's no fraud.
Do I void the contract if I agree to a variation in a schedule ?
I would have though so.
But this site http://www.afcea.org/signal/articles/anm..says
"The first Collins submarine was commissioned inl 1996 with known combat system processing and interface problems. The legacy Oberon CSS MK2 distributed architecture could not handle the heavy contact load that today’s missions require. Two years later, a fast-track interim software fix was begun with some combat system functions deleted. The following year, program management and defense acquisition was completely reorganized. In 2000, a request for proposals was put out to replace the SFCS MK 1, and some U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) processor units from the BSY-1 on Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarines were installed as an interim rig until a new design would be available.
In June, Cirrus and DRS won a fast-track bid, and two finalists for a new combat display system were Raytheon and STN Atlas Elektronik. As of early this year, the six Collins submarines still lacked full mission requirement integrated combat systems eight years after the problems were first noted."
Of course, this is a hypothetical case.
Real life might be different.
"in the real world, a single glimpse
is different"
うつつにひとめ
見しごとはあらず
utsutsu ni hitome
mishigoto wa arazu
(Ono-no-komachi of 9th century, with no record of birth and death, leaves us splendid poems mainly describing dreams and flow of time. Followings are the most famous her poems
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ny3k-kbys/co...
Generally speaking, a contract's terms can be amended by mutual agreement, either written or oral. (You'd want it in writing, but an oral agreement would hold up in court, too, if both parties agreed it was made or the court found it was made).
Some contracts specifically prevent amendment of their terms. In that case, if your contract isn't separable, you could well void it by agreeing to extend a deadline.
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