Washington ( CNN ) -- Victims and families of those killed in the Fort Hood massacre are asking compensation totaling $ 750 million from the government for failing to stop the attack . Eighty-three administrative claims were filed last week , saying the Army , the FBI , and the Justice and Defense departments are guilty of gross and willful negligence for not recognizing that the man charged in the shootings , Maj. Nidal Hasan , was a threat . `` Although they had clear knowledge and warnings that Hasan posed a grave danger to the lives and safety of soldiers and civilians with whom he came into contact , they did nothing to eliminate the known risk posed by him , '' the `` basis of claim '' document alleges . `` On the contrary , bowing to 'political correctness , ' the DOD , DOA ( Department of the Army ) , DOJ , and FBI , in wanton disregard of the safety of military and civilian personnel , intentionally ignored the threat he presented , '' says the document , which was attached to each of the 83 claims . Hasan is charged with killing 13 people and wounding dozens more in the killing spree at a medical building at Fort Hood , Texas , on November 5 , 2009 , where soldiers were screened before deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan . His court martial , in which prosecutors are seeking the death penalty , is set to begin March 5 . Hasan has not entered a plea . The lawyer handling the compensation claim , Neal Sher , said the next step depends on the government . `` The Army is taking the lead , '' Sher told CNN . `` They have six months either to deny the claim or satisfactorily resolve it . '' After that , the case could move into federal court . Since immediately following the attacks there have been widespread questions about how Hasan was evaluated , promoted and transferred to Fort Hood with plans to deploy to Afghanistan despite questions about his ideology and stability . A congressional report labeled him `` a smoking gun , '' and ripped into the government for not sounding an alarm . `` Although neither the Department of Defense nor the FBI had specific information concerning the time , place , or nature of the attack , they collectively had sufficient information to have detected Hasan 's radicalization to violent Islamist extremism but failed both to understand and to act on it , '' said the report from Sens . Joe Lieberman , I-Connecticut , and Susan Collins , R-Maine . `` Our investigation found specific and systemic failures in the government 's handling of the Hasan case and raises additional concerns about what may be broader systemic issues , '' it said . The government refuses to confirm reports that U.S. intelligence agencies had monitored Hasan 's e-mail contacts with American-born radical Anwar al-Awlaki , who in September was killed by an American drone attack in Yemen . `` It is a tragic irony that our government sought out and killed al-Awlaki , while Hasan was promoted in the Army and put in a position to carry out his murderous terror attack , '' attorney Sher had said in an earlier statement . `` It is a sad commentary on our avowed war on terror that the government deliberately refused to take even minimal steps to neutralize the clear threat posed by Hasan , who made no secret of , and actually boasted about , his anti-American and jihadist views . '' Victims and witnesses identified Hasan as the shooter during a preliminary hearing at Fort Hood last year . They described the mayhem inside the building , floors slick with blood as the gunman fired more than 150 rounds and methodically reloaded his handgun . Hasan was shot and partially paralyzed in a shootout with police . A Fort Hood spokesman acknowledged that the compensation claims had been filed . `` We are aware of the cases but are not able to speak to the specifics , '' spokesman Tyler Broadway said in an e-mail . `` The cases will be taken seriously and will follow due process . ''
83 claims have been filed by those wounded and the families of those killed at Fort Hood . They name the Army , the FBI and the Justice and Defense departments . The Army has six months to act on the claim before it goes to court , an attorney says . A court-martial for the suspect , Maj. Nidal Hasan, is scheduled for next month in Texas.