DoD buys vehicle parts management system
Filed under: Contract Awards, DLA, Department of Defense, IT, Lockheed Martin, logistics
Lockheed Martin was awarded yesterday a potential 10 year contract worth over $5 B to set up and manage a system to provide auto parts to the various services. The system will be able to provide, track and ship necessary vehicle parts all over the world to the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines. The system will utilize a proprietary software system that Lockheed Martin developed and is currently being used to support aircraft. Despite the size of the award the contract will employ only about thirty personnel.
See the Philadelphia Business Journal for more details.
Marines buy more MRAP vehicles
Filed under: Contract Awards, Mississippi, Navistar, U.S. Marine Corps, production program
The USMC awarded Navistar a contract to purchase more of their new, lighter vehicles. The contract is worth about $750 M and will buy 800 or so vehicles. The trend in recent MRAP buys has been to get smaller and less bulky vehicles for service in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Marines especially have cut back on MRAP buys and moved away from the original vehicles.
Navistar makes the MRAP in Mississippi and the press release can be found at The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch.com site here.
Congressional micromanageing of the Defense Budget screws up Force Protection
Filed under: Congress, Federal Budget Process, Force Protection, Restructuring, production program
This article in The Charleston Post-Gazette discusses how Force Protection Inc. went through a boom period, and now seems to be heading towards a downturn. This is all due to Congress suddenly deciding that the Army and Marines need more MRAPs. Read more
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