Opinion ID: 709078
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Phase III Tests

Text: 47 Butler claims that MDHC rigged a test in the Phase III Test Plan, which describes a one-way test for the radios rather than the two-way test required by the specification. MDHC did perform two-way tests, however, so there was no failure to perform a required test. Butler's statement that an Army flight test witness was manipulated by an MDHC employee into reporting favorable test results is not strictly consistent with the witness's testimony that he took [the MDHC employee's] word for it and is in any event irrelevant, as the Phase III Test Report disclosed mixed results for the test. 48 Butler also turns to the copilot gunner's radio, claiming that the Phase III Test Report falsely stated that it passed all tests and was ready for production. He apparently objects to the way in which the tests were documented, but this does not indicate that the test reports were in any way false. 49 Butler then claims that the Phase III Test Report contained a rigged test for the Automatic Direction Finder (ADF). His argument that the ADF could not possibly have complied does not identify an alleged false claim; his complaint about the Phase III Test Plan's criteria is a rehash of his general complaint about the Test Plan; and his description of the problems that the Army found in its later production testing provides no evidence of falsity in the Phase III Test Report. 50 Butler's arguments regarding the Doppler Navigation System similarly fail to provide any evidence on which a jury could find a false claim. He identifies as false MDHC's statement that the Doppler did not have to be tested during the Phase II navigation subsystem tests. The Doppler, however, was excluded from the Phase II tests as the Test Plans reflect. Differences between MDHC and the Army about how the Doppler was to be tested were openly aired and eventually resolved. Butler complains that the Doppler never passed the Phase III tests, but overlooks that the very test results he cites indicate that the Doppler failed.