Oshkosh Truck Corp. has been awarded a $121,242,434 firm-fixed price contract for a modification to the family of heavy tactical vehicles, load handling system, and wreckers, as well as the addition of 233 vehicles, and the cost of the federal retailers excise tax associated with the vehicles. Work will be performed in Oshkosh, Wis., and is expected to be completed by May 31, 2009.
AM General of South Bend, Ind., has gotten a $24,941,728 firm-fixed price contract for the addition of 255 high mobility multi-purpose wheeled vehicles to contract. Work will be performed in Mishawaka, Ind., and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2009.
BAE Systems, Tactical Vehicle Systems Limited Partnership, Sealy, Texas has received a $34,050,460 firm-fixed price and cost-reimbursement contract for the award of a ceiling price change order modification for the procurement of long-term armor strategy B kits for the family of medium tactical vehicles. Work will be is expected to be completed by Nov. 15, 2008.
TACOM in Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity for these three contracts.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
TACOM contracts
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
More "7-tons" to roll out
MRAP and JLTVs may grab the headlines but the Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement has been a staple since it started to replace Marine and Navy M900s in the late nineties.
Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh has been awarded $11,214,202 under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the purchase of 37 MTVR variants and 28 weapons mount kits for MTVR vehicles.
Work will be performed in Oshkosh, Wis., and work for this delivery order is expected to be completed by Dec. 2008. The Marine Corps System Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.
Monday, March 10, 2008
More HEMTT A4s For U.S. Army
Early in February we told you that Oshkosh had been awarded a contract for heavy tactical vehicles.
The U.S. Army has ordered an additional 1,084 heavy expanded mobility tactical trucks (HEMTT) in the A4 configuration. This contract modification raises the total of Oshkosh HEMTT A4s currently under contract to 1,745, for a total contract modification of more than $321 million.
Oshkosh will continue to manufacture improved HEMTT A2s until the A4 upgrades take effect in July. The most recent improvements to the HEMTT A2 are a fully air conditioned cab and cab structural changes that makes installation of add-on-armor in the field quicker and easier.
A4 production will begin in July 2008.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
New JLTV participant
“Plasan specializes in the design of armor protection systems,” said Dani Ziv, chief executive officer of Plasan. “We are pleased to be designing an armor solution exclusively with Oshkosh Corporation for the JLTV program.” “Oshkosh Corporation Defense Group has demonstrated that it has the technology and expertise to design and build some of the world’s toughest military trucks,” said John Stoddart, executive vice president, Oshkosh Corporation and president, Defense Group. “By teaming with Plasan, we will be able to deliver a JLTV concept that meets the survivability and mobility needs of soldiers and Marines.”
We wrote last month about the Northrop Grumman and Oshkosh joint bid on the JLTV (Joint Light Tactical Vehicle) program. They have now announced bringing Israeli manufacturer Plasan on board for armor expertise.
Sources: Press Release and as cited
Photo: Plasan
Sunday, February 10, 2008
JLTV update
An RFP has been issued for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV).
"JLTV will replace all the HMMWVs for the Marine Corps and will be the centerpiece of the light tactical wheeled vehicle fleet as part of the tactical mobility triad to maintain our expeditionary capability," Lt. Col. Ben Garza, JLTV program manager for the Marine Corps at Quantico, Va., said.
Heavy truck contract awarded
Oshkosh Truck Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., has been awarded a $272,682,027 firm-fixed price contract for the purchase of a Family of Heavy Tactical Vehicles. Work will be performed in Oshkosh, Wis., and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) Update
For over twenty years the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, HMMWV or "humvee", has been quite the success story. Thousands have been produced for the U.S. Armed Forces. More than a dozen variants were created from an ambulance to a TOW missile carrier. It even spawned the civilian Hummer.
The days of the HMMWV are, however, numbered. Like it's predecessor the Jeep, the HMMWV was designed for use behind the front lines. Times and the battlefront have changed. These vehicles were finding themselves confronted by heavy small arms fire, rocket propelled grenades (RPGs), IEDs and other threats they were never designed to face
In response the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program was launched. JLTV program is looking to procure an acceptable next-generation vehicle probably about half the size and price of an MRAP. Speed and mobility will be demanded in five variants: Reconnaissance; Utility; Combat/Tactical and C2. This means billions of dollars and this story will really begin to heat up with an expected RFP in February.
The most recent news on this front is an announced new partnership. Northrop Grumman has joined with Oshkosh Trucks to compete with Boeing/Textron, General Dynamics/Force Protection and Lockheed Martin/Armor Holdings (now part of BAE). Stay tuned.
