Australia will participate in JLTV
Filed under: Australia, Contract Awards, development program, logistics, production program
The Australian Defence Minister announced that the country would participate in the development phase of the JLTV. As we posted yesterday three development contracts are due to be announced soon by the US Army. JLTV will be used to replace Land Rover vehicles in the Australian inventory. The benefit to them of course is that there 4200 unit buy will be a drop in the bucket compared to the thousands the US military will purchase guaranteeing them a good price. Mr. Fitzgibbon also announced upgrades to a variety of current vehicles and the purchase of more Bushmaster armored vehicles.
See the Heraldsun.com.au for more.
JLTV decision may be imminent
Filed under: Contract Awards, Department of Defense, U.S. Army, development program, logistics, production program
The JLTV will be the next generation utility vehicle for the US armed forces. It will supplant the ubiquitous HUMVEE and will incorporate the lessons of the last seven years fighting. The Army had planned to announce that three teams won development contracts which over the next two plus years would lead to a prototype last week. Now the decision has been delayed for at least a few more days. The ultimate contract would be worth tens of billions of dollars as their would be thousands of the vehicles produced. Most of the major US defense contractors are part of one team or another with a variety of smaller companies as this is one of the largest procurement programs in sight.
See this story at WJACTV.com and another at Rueters for more on the program. Defensenews.com is reporting, here, that delays are due to concern about protests.
Marines buy MRAPs
According to this article the US Navy awarded five separate contracts to Navistar International. These contracts will be used to buy MRAP vehicles for the USMC. The MRAP market has increased dramatically in the last three years with BAE, Navistar and Force Protection being the main suppliers. The US military invested heavily in these vehicles to defeat the threat from IED in Iraq which had become the prime threat to their troops. Unfortunately the future combat forces of the Army and USMC will rely on other vehicles, perhaps the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) or the humble HUMVEE which will leave the US with a large inventory of MRAP vehicles not suited to other tactical missions.
Boeing expands JLTV team
Boeing added SAIC and Ford to the team they have established to bid on the development contract for the JLTV. See an article here. The JLTV will replace the HUMVEE and other light tactical vehicles. Read more
JLTV program to restart
Filed under: Department of Defense, Restructuring, development program
Based on the information in this article from DefenseNews.com the DoD is going to restart the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program. The previous program started in 2006 choked under the weight of the vehicles proposed. With the force protection requirements the weights shot up so fast that the Humvee replacements were weighing in at just under 20 tons.
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