United Aeronautical Corporation et al v. United States Air Force et al

  1. October 26, 2021

    Air Force Gets Firefighting IP Fight Thrown Out Of Calif. Court

    A California federal judge has dismissed a suit by a pair of military contractors claiming the U.S. Air Force misappropriated trade secrets covering designs of an aerial firefighting tank system they bought from a bankrupt contractor, finding that the dispute belongs in the Court of Federal Claims.

  2. March 02, 2020

    Air Force Stole Firefighting Tank Design, Contractors Say

    Two military contractors have accused the U.S. Air Force in California federal court of unlawfully using their proprietary data to create its own model of airborne firefighting storage tanks and of hurting their efforts to sell their own design to international customers.