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National Defense April 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
The Next Humvee: Army, Marines Weigh Options The Army and Marine Corps may decide as early as May 2007 to begin searching for a new vehicle that would replace the ubiquitous Humvee.  |
National Defense February 2007 Harold Kennedy |
Army, Marines to Acquire 50,000 New Trucks to Replace Humvees A fistful of defense companies will be vying to win a contract to develop a replacement for the humvee -- the Army and Marine Corps' light, all-terrain truck.  |
National Defense April 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Struggles to Maintain Ground Vehicle Fleet Facing a $12 billion tab to repair and replace vehicles and equipment damaged in combat operations, the Army expects to both reassess funding priorities and take a hard look at its logistics and maintenance practices.  |
National Defense November 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Truck Buyers Face 'Fix or Purchase' Dilemma The Army's aging fleet of 160,000 Humvees needs to be modernized, officials say. The plan is twofold: Refurbish a portion of the Humvee fleet and replace the rest with brand-new trucks.  |
National Defense August 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Seeking $34 Billion For New, Upgraded Truck Senior Army officials have okayed a $34 billion plan to refurbish the service's truck fleet. Between now and 2018, the Army would acquire 70,000 new vehicles and upgrade more than 200,000 from the existing inventory.  |
National Defense January 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Wants Trucks That `Survive' Combat Repeated attacks on truck convoys in Iraq have prompted the Army to revisit its requirements for future logistics vehicles.  |
National Defense April 2011 Eric Beidel |
Challenges Remain as JLTV Competition Heats Up More than any other program, the Army and Marine Corps' effort to create a Joint Light Tactical Vehicle epitomizes the challenges the military faces with its trucks.  |
The Motley Fool October 12, 2006 Rich Smith |
General Dynamics Outflanked? Investors, beware of the horn tooters when it comes to who's competing for an armored-vehicle contract.  |
National Defense February 2006 Stew Magnuson |
Rivals Gear Up to Build New Tactical Trucks There should be plenty of work to go around as the Army and Marines consider what, if anything, they will do to replace the high mobility, multi-purpose wheeled vehicle, better known as the Humvee.  |
National Defense February 2010 Erwin, Magnuson & Jean |
Army, Marines Mull Over Options to Modernize Truck Fleets The Defense Department has been on a truck-buying spree for the past several years, and the demand will remain high for some time. But truck manufacturers don't expect the good times to last too much longer  |
National Defense February 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Allots Additional Funds To Fix, Modernize Truck Fleet With a boost of at least $2 billion in the Army's budget for tactical trucks, officials are grappling with how best to strike the right balance between immediate and future needs.  |
National Defense July 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell |
Army Meets Tough Procurement Challenge Head-On Shortages of armored vehicles, particularly, commanded considerable attention because they highlighted the challenges of predicting equipment requirements and ensuring the readiness of the industrial base. The response to the steep increase in demand for armored vehicles in fact has been a remarkable success story.  |
National Defense July 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Predicts Long Life for Humvees Humvees will vastly outnumber MRAPs for the foreseeable future, at least if the Army has any say in it.  |
National Defense April 2009 Stew Magnuson |
Military Services Ponder Future of Their War-Worn Trucks Six years after the invasion of Iraq changed the way the military looked at tactical wheeled vehicles, the Army and Marine Corps are still trying to find the right balance between protection and performance.  |
National Defense February 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Marines Ponder Options for Future Trucks The Corps expects to increase purchases of light and medium armored trucks in the months ahead, while it continues to study long-term options for modernizing the fleet.  |
National Defense April 2008 Grace V. Jean |
Move over MRAP: New Light Tactical Vehicles are Coming Joint light tactical vehicles are being designed to maneuver through the narrow alleyways and small streets in Iraq.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 |
Army chooses ASTI for land-vehicle electronic monitoring U.S. Army officials needed systems-integration technology to enable rapid insertion of new electronics capabilities into land vehicles. They chose the Electronic Systems Integration (ESI) technology from American Systems Technologies Inc.  |
National Defense October 2012 Eric Beidel |
No Stranger to Scrutiny, New Truck Program Forges Ahead The Army and Marine Corps announced contract awards for the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the marquee truck program, which is supposed to give troops greater off-road mobility than a Humvee.  |
National Defense February 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
Uncertain Path Ahead For Military Truck Fleet The services have struggled over the past several years to predict the quantities and types of vehicles they will need.  |
National Defense October 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Award Shakes Up Industry Oshkosh Defense emerged in late August as the winner of the highly coveted joint light tactical vehicle contract. Experts said the award would be a major boon for the Wisconsin-based manufacturer, but noted the future may not be as rosy for losing competitor AM General.  |
National Defense July 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Pushes Truck Technology Forward The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle is one of the most hotly competed contracts currently up for grabs in the U.S. defense market.  |
National Defense February 2012 Eric Beidel |
New Requirements, Lower Cost Breathe New Life Into JLTV Though it appeared doomed just months ago, the Army and Marine Corps' plan to replace aging Humvees with a new off-road vehicle may have regained its footing at least for another year.  |
National Defense February 2013 Stew Magnuson |
Long Road Remains for JLTV Despite Technology's Maturity In November, the Army-Marine Corps' Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program will be seven years old. Time flies when a major military acquisition program is involved.  |
National Defense October 2006 Stew Magnuson |
Truck Manufacturers Show Their Wares The vehicle demonstration is designed to speed up the notoriously slow acquisition process by ensuring that the Army and Marines don't ask for features that contractors can't deliver or would take years to develop.  |
National Defense February 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Not Sold On Commercial Trucks The Army's Detroit-based research branch for years has tried to convince service leaders that they should purchase rugged commercial pickup trucks to supplement the aging fleet of Humvees.  |
National Defense February 2013 Dan Parsons |
Smaller Trucks Seen as Lucrative Business in U.S. and Abroad Riding a wave of special operations successes and the expectation that funding will flow toward elite forces in the future, vehicle manufacturers are staking millions of dollars on bids to supply those shadowy warriors with new trucks.  |
Defense Update Issue 3, 2006 |
The New Road Warriors Armored Trucks Light armored trucks can't manage the extra weight needed to defend against mines and other explosive devices. However, newer versions of explosive reactive armor (ERA) are being created for these lightweight platforms.  |
National Defense February 2011 Jean & Magnuson |
Industry Execs Ponder a Shrinking Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Market Military truck manufacturers are beginning to worry about the long-term future of the industry.  |
National Defense October 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Marines Seek `Combat Tactical Vehicle' to Replace Humvees The Marine Corps intends to replace its fleet of more than 20,000 Humvee trucks with larger, sturdier vehicles that are better suited to the rigors of combat.  |
National Defense April 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Grappling With Antiquated Buying Rules Army leaders continue to squabble over how best to satisfy soldiers' immediate equipment needs and simultaneously develop futuristic weapons systems for the decades ahead.  |
National Defense April 2010 Austin Wright |
Non-Metal Structure Lightens Military Truck The Army is testing an all-composite military vehicle that weighs 900 pounds less than the humvee it was modeled after.  |
National Defense December 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Military's New `Light' Truck Defies Laws of Physics The latest Pentagon effort to acquire a replacement for the humvee, however, takes truck buying to a whole new level.  |
National Defense April 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Next-Generation Humvee Faces Delays, Budget Crunch The Army and Marine Corps are expected to delay an industry competition to design and build a new family of light trucks to replace aging humvees.  |
National Defense January 2004 Frank Colucci |
Military Vehicles Could Benefit From Hybrid Electric Engines Hybrid trucks that blend electric motors with internal combustion engines promise fuel efficiency, as well as plentiful, stealthy sources of electrical power for battlefield sensors, weapons, and command and control systems.  |
National Defense August 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Protection of Army Trucks Requires Tradeoffs Military truck makers are grappling with how build relatively uncomplicated vehicles that can sustain the rigors of combat and, when needed, effortlessly be plated with thousands of pounds of armor.  |
National Defense June 2012 Eric Beidel |
Military Provides Little Clarity For Future of Truck Fleets As wars end and budgets tighten, the Pentagon has begun trying to make sense of the spending spree that was the past decade.  |
The Motley Fool January 10, 2008 Rich Smith |
Who Wants to Be a 70-Billionaire? Defense companies Northrop Grumman and Oshkosh team up to bid for their share of the military transport vehicle contracts.  |
National Defense May 2004 Sandra Erwin |
Army Not Yet Sold On Hybrid Vehicles The Army's decision to stop funding the production of hybrid-electric Humvees is a clear sign that military vehicles will continue to be a tough sell in the world of fuel-efficient technologies.  |
National Defense April 2012 Eric Beidel |
Downturn in Military Truck Market Produces More Losers Than Winners The frustration and anxiety among suppliers in the tactical vehicle market is palpable. The armed services have begun to terminate, delay or cut back on anticipated truck programs.  |
National Defense July 2014 Dan Parsons |
Army Switches From Vehicle Procurement to Sustainment Mode Military commanders and the companies that built thousands of vehicles in support of two wars are preparing for reduced budgets and requirements after more than a decade of combat.  |
National Defense December 2014 Valerie Insinna |
Sequestration Could Hamper Joint Light Tactical Vehicle The Army and Marine Corps joint light tactical vehicle program is on schedule, but if sequestration returns in 2016, it will likely decrease the services' purchasing power.  |
National Defense September 2006 Harold Kennedy |
Marines Face Steep Cuts to Expeditionary Vehicle The Office of Naval Research plans to award contracts worth as much as $2.5 million for conceptual designs for a family of joint light tactical vehicles (JLTV) that would replace the thin-skinned, 20-year-old humvee.  |
National Defense October 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Humvee Recap Competition Heating Up If all goes well for Granite Tactical Vehicles in the next few months, this bucolic town, once better known as the inspiration for the fictional TV town of Mayberry, could become one of the Defense Department's newest suppliers of tactical trucks.  |
Defense Update Issue 3, 2005 |
Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HED) Powered Trucks Oshkosh Truck is among the leaders in Serial HED after implementing the design in its new Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT) A3 third-generation prototype.  |
National Defense February 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Military Services in the Market for 4,000 Blast-Proof Vehicles Expectations that U.S. troops will not leave Iraq for the foreseeable future have prompted the military services to request an additional 4,000 mine-resistant armored vehicles.  |
National Defense March 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Double V-Hulls, Chimneys Seen As Viable Alternatives to Armor To counter deadlier threats in Afghanistan and newer ones that may turn up, military commanders are scrambling to find technologies that will improve vehicle survivability.  |
National Defense January 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Army's Ground Combat Vehicle Stirs Confusion In Industry The Army plans to spend more than $1 billion over the next several years on the design of a new "infantry fighting vehicle." With new big-ticket military programs becoming increasingly scarce, this would normally qualify as great news for contractors.  |
National Defense April 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Truck Crews Get Crash Course in Survival To make up for the shortage of armor, the Army intends to protect truck convoys from roadside bombs, mines and small-arms attacks by deploying more firepower aboard vehicles, along with other defensive techniques.  |
National Defense April 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Shields of Steel The increase in attacks targeting U.S. troops in Iraq prompted the Army to equip trucks with protective armor.  |
National Defense August 2010 Stew Magnuson |
New Light Truck Program Has Tall Orders to Fill Army and Marine Corps officials debuted three prototypes made by three different manufacturers recently. And none of their solutions look anything like the humvees they hope to one day replace.  |