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MILITARY TRUCK MAKERS * USA
* DC - Ford Free to Offer Proposal for Blast-Proof Trucks, Army says
(Photo: Ford's logo. Ford Motor Company to challenge defense contractors with their own blast-proof Humvee JLTV)
Washington,DC,USA -Bloomberg, by Roxana Tiron/Brendan McGarry and Nick Taborek/Larry Liebert and Ann Hughey -February 17, 2012: -- Ford Motor Co. can submit an unsolicited proposal for $54 billion in work replacing U.S. military Humvees with blast-proof, all-terrain vehicles, the U.S. Army Secretary said... The automaker said on Feb. 6 that it won’t compete because it can’t meet the program’s deadlines... Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford had initially proposed bearing about $400 million in costs to build production-ready prototypes without the government funding normally awarded during development, according to a presentation circulated in Congress in November. The company said its vehicle would provide better protection to troops at a lower price and weight than competitors... Army Secretary, John McHugh, said that while doing so would be a “very tenuous decision,” the Army would consider an unsolicited proposal outside the current competition... The Army opened on Jan. 26 the second round of competition to develop light, blast-resistant trucks that would replace part of the Humvee fleet. General Dynamics Corp., Lockheed Martin Corp. and BAE Systems Plc won first-stage contracts in 2008 for technology development...
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