(UPDATE: Link has been fixed.) The Army has filed a statement on Robotic FX's behalf in the iRobot-Robotic FX lawsuit (via simpsonsez). The filing says that if an injunction is issued, soldiers "will certainly be placed in life-threatening situations when a safer alternative exists." OUCH! The filing says that an injunction would not be in the public interest and backs up Robotic FX's contention that the best place for contending the contract is in Federal Claims Court. The filing notes that iRobot has yet to make such a claim contesting the contract.
Here is the Army Declaration further buttressing the above points.
The one grace is that they noted that both iRobot and Robotic FX met the contract specs while Robotic FX won the bidding. They don't explicitly say from what I can tell that the Robotic FX product is superior to the iRobot product, although they seem to imply it. Simpsonsez thinks that this is a weak filing: "If I'm iRobot, I argue to the judge that since both met the test and we can fill the Army's needs just as swiftly as FX, the public interest is not harmed by the injunction."
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