The Government Accountability Office today upheld the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles protest filed by BAE Systems and Navistar, challenging the award of the "rebuy" contract to Oshkosh.
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Marjorie Censer was Inside Defense's editor until July 2021. She previously worked at the Washington Post and its local business publication Capital Business, covering defense industry reshaping, the increased scrutiny of contractors following the Edward Snowden case and the challenges of canceling military programs. From 2007 to 2010, she was managing editor of Inside the Army. She also previously worked as defense editor at POLITICO and as a staff writer at the Carroll County Times and the Princeton Packet. A Fairfax native, she graduated from Princeton University.
The Government Accountability Office today upheld the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles protest filed by BAE Systems and Navistar, challenging the award of the "rebuy" contract to Oshkosh.
Oshkosh announced today it has received another order from the Army and Marine Corps for 400 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicles, bringing the total number of vehicles ordered to the Joint Requirements Oversight Council-approved figure of 6,644.
Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Chiarelli today corrected a statement he made at a July hearing before House Armed Services subcommittees about supplemental funding limitations for equipment recapitalization.
Once the military reaches a production rate of 500 ready-to-ship Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicles per month, it will likely begin to use surface transportation, the top Defense Department transportation official said today.
Calling the program "no longer viable," the Pentagon acquisition chief last week formally canceled the Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon, one of the manned ground vehicles included in the Future Combat Systems effort.
Senator Kit Bond (R-MO), in a letter sent today, is calling on the Obama administration to adopt the Missouri National Guard's model to stabilize Afghanistan.
Texas lawmakers sat down with the Army today to discuss the award of the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles "rebuy" contract, which was granted to Oshkosh earlier this year.
Strykers work very well in Iraq but are not as effective in Afghanistan, House Appropriations defense subcommittee chairman John Murtha (D-PA) told reporters during a briefing today on Capitol Hill.
The Defense Department is shifting $2.7 billion from the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle fund to pay for government-furnished equipment, sustainment in Iraq and Afghanistan and remote weapon stations for MRAPs and MRAP All-Terrain Vehicles, according to a new reprogramming document.
President Obama has nominated retired Lt. Gen. Malcolm O'Neill, a former top Pentagon missile defense official, to serve as the Army's assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology and its top acquisition official, a move that would end the service's nearly two-year run with an acting acquisition chief.
The new task force established by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to counter improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan will be a six-month "intensive integrative effort," the Pentagon acquisition executive said today.
Oshkosh announced last week it has already completed the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicles required in November.
President Obama last week nominated Maria Sally Matiella to succeed Nelson Ford as the Army's assistant secretary for financial management.
The Government Accountability Office last week held a two-day closed hearing in Washington on the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles "rebuy" award to Oshkosh, according to protestor BAE Systems.
Following comments by Pentagon acquisition executive Ashton Carter earlier this month, BAE Systems representatives today argued strongly that the company's protest of the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles "rebuy" contract is not a frivolous one.
Though the Army should have been conducting a "best value" competition to select the winner of the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles "rebuy" competition, it failed to accurately assess the risks associated with the proposals and instead started a bidding war, according to BAE Systems' second supplemental protest of the award to Oshkosh earlier this year.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates -- who criticized the Army earlier this year for failing to integrate Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles into its Future Combat Systems plans -- indicated yesterday he expects MRAP All-Terrain Vehicles will also be a part of the military's future fleet.
The Army is preparing to overhaul its battle command framework in an effort to provide a common architecture for which industry can build specialized applications, a senior official said today.
Oshkosh announced today that the Pentagon has placed an order for another 1,000 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicles, bringing the total ordered just 400 shy of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council-approved total of 6,644.
With a higher price and lower technical ratings, Telephonics "had no reasonable chance of being selected" for the Vehicle Intercommunication System Expanded contract, the Government Accountability Office writes in its denial of Telephonics' protest of the award.