Navistar gets logistic vehicle contracts

September 20, 2008 by Dagpotter · Comment
Filed under: Contract Awards, Navistar, U.S. Army, logistics, production program 

Navistar was awarded two contracts by the Army to provide tactical support vehicles. These include one contract for tankers to carry fuel, oil and water. The vehicles are for use in Iraq and Afghanistan. Navistar has won several contracts to provide these kind of vehicles. One would have to assume that over the past seven years the Army has used a lot of these vehicles beyond what the originally intended. They will require either replacement or recapitalization, where they are rebuilt and retrofitted to be like a new one.

See the press release at MarketWatch.com.

Marines buy more MRAP vehicles

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.

More USMC MRAP contracts

According to this article Navistar International was awarded a contract by the US Navy to provide maintenance support for USMC MRAP vehicles. This contract is to provide parts and most likely Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) for the many vehicles that are being used in Iraq and Afghanistan. The contract value is over $700 M. It again illustrates that modern systems are not only expensive to procure but to maintain which opens up a whole new venue to defense contractors.

Navistar wins contract to build trucks for US Allies

The US Army awarded Navistar a contract for 7,000 odd trucks for the Afghan and Iraqi governments. The value of the contract is over $1B. See the press release here. This is on top of a previous award for vehicles and support for the US Army. Navistar is also bidding as part of one of the teams for the JLTV.