Citing vehicle needs in Afghanistan, the Pentagon acquisition chief has approved purchasing more than 2,800 additional Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles -- about half of which will be MRAP All-Terrain Vehicles from Oshkosh, according to the Pentagon acquisition executive. The other half will be original MRAP vehicles, with the vast majority of the order going to Navistar, DOD acquisition czar Ashton Carter writes in a Jan. 29 memo obtained by Inside the Army. In the memo, Carter notes that U.S...
