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Jan 7, 2015

MILITARY TRUCKS * USA: Humvee Replacement

* DC - Army opens competition to build JLTV

Washington,DC,USA -Dod Buzz, by Brendan McGarry -December 15th, 2014: -- The U.S. Army has officially begun the next round of competition to build a replacement to the iconic Humvee... The service released a request for proposals, from companies that want to manufacture production models of the so-called Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, or JLTV... Under previous contracts signed in 2012, defense contracting giant Lockheed Martin Corp., truck-maker Oshkosh Corp. and Humvee-maker AM General LLC have each delivered 22 prototypes to the Army for testing. Now, the companies are competing against each other to build 17,000 of the vehicles under a much bigger low-rate initial production contract... Overall, the Army aims to purchase about 49,000 JLTVs, while the Marine Corps plans to acquire about 5,500 of the armored trucks... The service next summer, possibly in July, plans to pick a winner to begin building the vehicles, which are designed to be lightweight like Humvees, but more survivable, like the blast-resistant trucks known as Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, or MRAPs, built for the U.S.-led ground wars in Iraq and Afghanistan... The Pentagon has estimated the effort to develop and build the JLTVs at almost $23 billion, or about $400,000 per vehicle, according to a 2013 report from the Congressional Research Service...

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