There was no 'Best Efforts' or 'Try Your Best' or 'Participation Trophy' in the contract. Repeated time-extension approvals would not have been necessary. No excuses, they failed to perform on the contract.
"The Navy asked for a unique cutting edge solution"
and fcel told them they could provide that...
" the reality is they understood that it was not a simple request"
so what?...the reality is, if you want something and someone tells you they can do it, you expect it to get done....NO EXCUSES...
"and with something that is cutting edge it is common to "fail to perform" until you get it right."
since when does the military EXPECT failure???...since when do they want failure?...since when do they excuse failure??...
do you think the military hired fcel believing they were going to fail?...that they were going to be ok with failure?....years and years of failure....the military is ok with this??...