The Obama administration is moving to end an epic legal battle between the Justice Department and two major defense contractors, seeking congressional authorization to allow the Navy to receive "in-kind" payments in lieu of cash from Boeing and General Dynamics to settle a $1.3 billion dispute over the 1991 termination of the A-12 aircraft program. President Obama last week asked Congress, as part of a fiscal year 2014 budget amendment largely dealing with the $79.4 billion war-spending request, to include...