Thursday, April 18, 2024
Thursday, April 18, 2024
This Tuesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on the Army's Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program and more.
Oshkosh Defense and the government have collaborated since 2015 to find additional cost savings for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program:
Army clarifies JLTV cost savings
Each Joint Light Tactical Vehicle costs roughly 17% less, on average, than original government projections, according to Michael Sprang, program manager for the Army's joint program office for joint light tactical vehicles.
The Defense Department's $69 billion OCO account could be transferred to DOD's base budget when the Biden administration submits its fiscal year 2022 budget request later this week:
Pentagon's controversial overseas war chest faces uncertain fate in Biden's new budget
The Pentagon's Overseas Contingency Operations account, derided by critics for years as a "slush fund," has become the subject of renewed scrutiny on Capitol Hill and could be headed toward a reckoning this week when the White House proposes President Biden's first defense budget.
After canceling its previous Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar contract with Raytheon in early 2020, the service adopted a new acquisition strategy to rapidly prototype and field an off-the-shelf capability:
Air Force awards Lockheed 3DELRR integration contract
The Air Force today awarded Lockheed Martin an $8.5 million integration contract for its Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar program, which includes options to produce up to 35 radar systems.
Army humvees will be retrofitted with anti-lock brakes and electronic stability controls to vehicles that were produced before the service began including the technology on new and recapitalized vehicles:
Army awards contract to retrofit humvees with safety tech
Ricardo Defense recently won an $89 million contract for kits to retrofit safety technology onto humvees, which are expected to lower the risk of vehicle rollovers, according to a March 16 Army announcement.
The Navy is seeking industry feedback on plans for integrating Conventional Prompt Strike, originally developed for the submarine fleet only, onto the DDG-1000 class of destroyers:
Navy takes key step toward potentially integrating long-range hypersonic weapon on surface combatant
The Navy is asking industry for ideas on integrating a long-range hypersonic strike weapon on a destroyer, eyeing a three-pack load, in a key step toward potentially adapting the Conventional Prompt Strike for DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class ships and potentially the DDG-X, the planned follow-on large surface combatant.