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Aug 26, 2015

MILITARY TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * USA: Oshkosh wins $30 Billion Army contract battle to replace Humvee

* Wisconsin - The truck-maker has won the coveted megacontract to replace most of the Army’s iconic vehicles

-- Oshkosh won the Pentagon’s $30 billion sweepstakes to replace the U.S. Army’s Humvee with up to 55,000 new Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, or JLTVs, over the next 25 years, service officials said... The Army awarded a $6.7 billion contract Tuesday to Oshkosh for an initial batch of 17,000 vehicles for the Army and Marine Corps. Production will begin in the first quarter of fiscal 2016, according to an Army release, with a later decision on the full scale of production to come in 2018, the year the vehicles are expected to be ready for battle... 
Oshkosh, WIS, USA - Defense One Today, by Marcus Weisgerber, & Patrick Tucker - August 25, 2015

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