Oshkosh Defense delivered its first Joint Light Tactical Vehicle prototype to the Army and Marine Corps last week, according to a company announcement.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Tony Bertuca is chief editor of Inside the Pentagon, the flagship publication of InsideDefense, where he focuses on defense budget and acquisition policy. He previously worked for the Sun-Times News Group in his hometown of Chicago, IL, and at the New Hampshire Union Leader in Manchester, NH. Tony has also served as managing editor of Inside the Army. He has a master's degree in journalism from Boston University.
Oshkosh Defense delivered its first Joint Light Tactical Vehicle prototype to the Army and Marine Corps last week, according to a company announcement.
General Dynamics Information Systems announced today that it has successfully completed a comprehensive risk-reduction program for the Navy's Knifefish Surface Mine Countermeasures Unmanned Undersea Vehicle.
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Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno said today that budget pressures are forcing the service to consider delaying the purchase of a new Ground Combat Vehicle -- along with imagining scenarios in which it may not be bought at all.
Early findings from the Army's "deep dive" assessment of the combat vehicle industrial base suggest there is significant manufacturing redundancy that could be consolidated, according to a report obtained by InsideDefense.com.
The Army's Rapid Equipping Force is touting the development of a new device that will quickly increase the fuel efficiency of the some of the service's biggest gas guzzlers, though the product is unlikely to reach Afghanistan before American forces exit the country, according to Army officials.
One of the Army's top acquisition officials said today that the service is now working with Congress to review options to preserve the combat vehicle industrial base as "devastating" budget troubles continue to envelope the Pentagon.
The Senate Appropriations Committee has denied more than $360 million in Defense Department requests to use Army vehicle funding to pay war-related bills in Afghanistan, according to a congressional letter.
In a long-expected shift that will impact military installations across the nation -- and is likely to affect a variety of acquisition programs -- the Army announced today that it will cut 12 of its 45 active brigade combat teams.
Congressional defense committees are still debating a variety of issues related to the Pentagon's fleet of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, despite the fact no further purchases are expected from the Army or Marine Corps and both services plan to divest huge numbers of the vehicles.
The Defense Acquisition Board is slated to consider approving the launch of the Army's Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle program on July 1, though the service is proceeding carefully and closely monitoring cost projections, according to officials with knowledge of the schedule.
The House Appropriations defense subcommittee has denied or curtailed a host of Defense Department requests to transfer funding from Army vehicle programs to pay warfighting bills accumulated in Afghanistan, according to congressional documents.
The Army, citing fiscal limitations, will not be awarding a new contract for the Individual Carbine and is ending the competition, according to a statement released today.
The House Armed Services Committee's fiscal year 2014 defense authorization bill would limit funding for the Stryker combat vehicle until the Army addresses issues with $900 million in unused spare parts.
While the Army has repeatedly said it does not want to spend any more money on Abrams tanks, more than 120 members of the House have sent a letter to Army Secretary John McHugh asking that the service pump additional funding into upgrading the tanks for the National Guard, but not in fiscal year 2014.
Army Test and Evaluation Command is set to furlough 4,400 civilian employees, throwing a wrench into the schedules and budgets of a host of programs, according to an ATEC statement.
As U.S. Special Operations Command mulls an impending contract award for a new fleet of Ground Mobility Vehicles, an Ohio-based company has announced a blanket purchase agreement with the Defense Department to begin transforming standard pickup trucks into tactical vehicles for SOCOM.
The Army has pegged several major acquisition programs for budget transfers to help pay warfighting bills accumulated in Afghanistan in fiscal year 2013, with the Apache helicopter, the Warfighter Information Network Tactical system and armored trucks being among the biggest bill-payers, according to a draft Pentagon reprogramming request obtained by InsideDefense.com.
Army Secretary John McHugh said today that the service expects to receive the lion's share of the Defense Department's upcoming multibillion-budget reprogramming request headed to Congress, but cautioned that the service would still face a significant deficit.