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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 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 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.  |
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 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 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 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 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.  |
National Defense October 2012 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Middle East MRAP Sales Give Hope to Truck Manufacturers Oshkosh Corp. inked a multi-million dollar deal to sell 750 of its off-road version of the MRAP to the United Arab Emirates.  |
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 August 2010 Stew Magnuson |
New Truck To Show The Way for Acquisition Reforms The Weapons System Acquisition Reform Act passed in 2009 requires that prototypes be produced for major weapons acquisition programs prior to Milestone B, which is the point where independent review boards must give a thumbs up or thumbs down  |
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 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.  |
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 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.  |
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 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 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.  |
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 2014 Dan Parsons |
Repurposed MRAPs Find New Life in Police Agencies The Pentagon wants to be rid of most of the hulking trucks, so much so that it is giving away thousands.  |
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.  |
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 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Marine Humvee Upgrade Seen as Inevitable The Marine Corps is deciding how to rejuvenate its war-weary Humvee fleet. Compromised performance -- caused by a decade of combat zone wear and tear and being overloaded by armor -- is prompting this action.  |
National Defense September 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Truck Program a Test Case for Cutting Costs, And Profits A relatively small Army procurement -- the $3 billion family of medium tactical trucks -- is being watched closely by industry executives and investors as a harbinger of what might be in store for manufacturers of military equipment.  |
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 May 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Improvements to Discontinued Army Humvees May Last Another 20 Years Humvees are rarely used these days because of their vulnerability to roadside bombs. Army and Marine Corp officials plan to upgrade the humvee fleet to put it back in service.  |
National Defense February 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Sequestration Threatens Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Acquisition With round two of sequestration looming over the Pentagon, major weapon programs could be on the chopping block.  |
National Defense July 2008 Breanne Wagner |
Marines Likely to Curtail Ground-Vehicle Wish List The Marine Corps is struggling to keep its ground-vehicle modernization plans afloat.  |
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 February 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Tough War Lessons Force Military Vehicle Programs To Consider Fuel Efficiency Moving fuel to and around battle zones that have no "front lines" has an extraordinarily high price in terms of money and lives.  |
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.  |
Defense Update Issue 1, 2008 |
ARMY, USMC Set the JLTV in Motion Army requests proposal for the development of a new family of vehicles utilizing the most advanced, but mature, technologies.  |
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 January 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Marine Corps Plays Part In a Shrinking Military Vehicle Industrial Base Whether it's munitions, space, combat vehicles or submarines, maintaining the industrial base for sectors unique to the military has been a growing concern.  |
The Motley Fool November 21, 2007 Rich Smith |
This Ain't Your Mama's Humvee The biggest names in armored warfare are gearing up to vie for the Pentagon's Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program, which could be worth between $10 billion to $70 billion to the winner.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 Ben Ames |
Army's Next-Generation Humvee Will Use Networked Vetronics In a departure from using trucks that are simple workhorses, Army leaders have required that each vehicle be packed with electronics.  |
National Defense June 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Visionaries Foresee Radically Different Military Vehicles The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Adaptive Vehicle Make program seeks to reinvent the way vehicles are designed and built. It is looking to revamp and speed up the entire acquisition process, from the drawing board to the assembly line.  |
National Defense February 2013 Stew Magnuson |
The MRAP: Reuse, Recycle, Reduce The Army in November awarded BAE Systems a $37.6 million contract to provide the spare parts and kits needed to convert 250 Mine Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicles into trucks for bomb disposal teams.  |
National Defense April 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Surge in Vehicle Orders Calls for Unconventional Buying Methods Amid escalating pressure to deliver better protection for troops in Iraq, the Army and the Marine Corps have committed to buying nearly 6,800 mine-resistant armored vehicles. But buying this quantity requires some creative purchasing.  |
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 June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Future Light Truck in Peril? The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) is eventually supposed to replace Army and Marine Corps humvees. But recent comments by Marine Corps officials suggest that it may not be able to deliver on its promise of survivability and low weight.  |
National Defense April 2014 Dan Parsons |
Lawsuit Stalls Special Operations Ground Mobility Vehicle Program A new truck for special operators could have been bought in a swift, purposeful 18-month acquisition process. Instead, it is stuck in limbo pending a lawsuit from a losing manufacturer.  |
National Defense February 2012 Sandra I. Erwin |
Stronger-Than-Steel Light Combat Trucks Still a Pipedream The JLTV program, intended for both the Army and the Marine Corps, is becoming a test case for how far military and industry engineers can push the boundaries of armor technology as they seek a truck to replace the Humvee later this decade.  |
National Defense April 2008 Alan L. Gropman |
Combat Vehicle Sector Could be Headed for Turbulent Times The defense industry has thrived despite erratic government funding and regulatory vagaries. But it must now prepare for a possible downturn during the next several years.  |
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 2013 Dan Parsons |
Vendors Pour Funding Into Armored Vehicle Development Vehicle manufacturers are gearing up for several parallel armored vehicle programs and, without any guarantee of a contract, are pouring money into working prototypes so that when the time comes, they can offer an "off-the-shelf" design.  |
National Defense August 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
A New Mission for Military Trucks: Power Generation The new MRAP models come with double the power -- a 400-amp alternator, compared to 200 amps previously. Most of the older trucks have been upgraded to the larger alternator.  |
National Defense October 2012 Dan Parsons |
Frugality, Careful Timing Drive Marines' Modernization Plan For a decade, the Marine Corps has poured money into bomb-resistant trucks and other vehicles specifically designed for use in Iraq and Afghanistan while neglecting its amphibious fleet.  |
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 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.  |