Army needs more funds to speed up humvee safety retrofits, says acquisition chief 

By Nickolai Sukharev / January 5, 2024 at 3:26 PM
More cash from Congress would allow the Army to accelerate by six years an effort to retrofit humvees with safety kits that prevent rollovers, the service's acquisition chief told Inside Defense . “The quantity of procurable kits . . . is directly tied to annual fiscal year funding levels,” Doug Bush wrote in an email. “As of December 2023, the total number of retrofit locations has increased from 11 to 16 sites, including four Outside the Continental U.S. locations,” Bush...

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