Army awards BAE $656M for Bradley Fighting Vehicle

The Army has inked a $656.2 million contract with BAE Systems Land & Armaments for two variants of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, the Defense Department announced Tuesday.

The fixed-price contract, devised by Army Contracting Command, will fund production of the M2A4 and M7A4 variants of the vehicle. BAE has until Nov. 30, 2027 to complete the order.

The York, Pennsylvania-based vendor won contracts in September and December of last year to build M2A4 and M7A4 versions using “legacy source variants” stripped from Bradley vehicles that fought in the Persian Gulf War.

The Army has supplied Ukraine with more than 300 Bradley vehicles since Russia’s invasion in 2022, according to a Defense Department fact sheet released Nov. 20.

The service plans to eventually replace the Bradley with the XM30, previously called the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle.