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Inside the Army - 07/28/2008
Officials earlier this month concluded testing meant to gauge characteristics of soldiers who might be intrinsically good at detecting hidden improvised explosive devices, and to surmise if this is a trainable or recognizable trait.
Inside the Army - 07/28/2008
Commanders in Afghanistan want new versions of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles that are lighter and more mobile, driving the Army this month to ask its stable of current MRAP builders to propose engineering changes to make their respective fleets shorter and narrower with improved maneuverability.
DefenseAlert - 07/17/2008
July 17, 2008 -- The Defense Department announced today contract awards for 773 more Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles and suggested the entire order would be sent to Afghanistan.
DefenseAlert - 07/16/2008
July 16, 2008 -- The undetermined operation and sustainment costs of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles are likely to pose budgetary challenges for the Army, which will have to account for MRAPs as it works to fund key programs like Future Combat Systems and the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
DefenseAlert - 07/11/2008
July 11, 2008 -- The Defense Department’s growing fleet of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles is exceeding objective operational readiness rates, with nearly 92 percent of the armored trucks available for action, according to sources familiar with internal Pentagon readiness reports.
Inside the Army - 07/07/2008
Though the multiple variants of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles could present a maintenance challenge, an Army Materiel Command official says the service is prepared for repairing and resetting the blast-proof trucks once they are ready to be overhauled.
Inside the Army - 07/07/2008
Readying for what could be its last round of orders of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, the Defense Department has already accepted more than 10,000 of the blast-proof trucks.
Inside the Army - 06/30/2008
The Pentagon is sending additional Mine Resistant Ambush Protected trucks to Afghanistan to meet heightened demand just as the Army completes plans to award contracts for what could be its last batch of the armored-truck purchases.
Inside the Pentagon - 06/26/2008
The U.S. Army has begun offering courses teaching deployed forces how to equip Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles in Iraq and Afghanistan with Blue Force Tracking (BFT) systems intended to limit friendly fire incidents, improve tracking of enemies and boost situational awareness, a service official said this week.
Inside the Navy - 06/23/2008
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA -- The four-star general in charge of Joint Forces Command urged industry to do more to focus their efforts on defeating improvised explosive devices (IED), the No. 1 killer of troops in Iraq.
Inside the Army - 06/09/2008
With the approval of additional purchases in hand, the product manager for a modular mine roller system designed to protect soldiers and vehicles from improvised explosive devices is seeking inclusion in the Army's six-year spending plan and the creation of a program of record.
Inside the Army - 06/09/2008
The Defense Department must eliminate improvised explosive devices to stop agile and sophisticated enemies who use IED casualties as a strategic weapon to wear down the United States, a top anti-IED official said last week.
DefenseAlert - 06/03/2008
June 3, 2008 -- A new variant of the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle, called the MRAP II, may not finish testing in time to be included next month in a round of contract awards for the next set of vehicles, according to the Pentagon's acquisition executive.
DefenseAlert - 05/20/2008
May 20, 2008 -- A key congressional defense committee believes industry is not maximizing its production capacity in order to support the Pentagon's top acquisition program -- the life-saving Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle. The panel also asserts the Defense Department must buy more of the armored trucks to support pre-deployment training.
Inside the Navy - 05/19/2008
Pentagon officials are vowing to expand research into technologies enabling the discreet tracking of high-value military targets worldwide, according to a recently published Defense Department plan.
Inside the Army - 05/19/2008
The Senate Armed Services Committee has declined to include funding for the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization in the fiscal year 2009 base budget, instead proposing that the money be moved to supplemental spending accounts for Iraq and Afghanistan.
DefenseAlert - 05/15/2008
May 15, 2008 -- The Senate Appropriations Committee today approved $168.9 billion in emergency supplemental spending to pay for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, a bill that includes $3.6 billion to buy 15 additional C-17 Globemaster cargo aircraft and $1.7 billion in Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle funding, among other programs.
DefenseAlert - 05/13/2008
May 13, 2008 -- Pentagon officials are vowing to expand research into technologies enabling the discreet tracking of high-value military targets worldwide, according to a recently published Defense Department plan.
Inside the Army - 05/12/2008
FT. KNOX, KY -- The Army has purchased 60 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles from the Navy and is formulating a strategy for the use of those vehicles in domestic training prior to deployment, officials here said last week.
DefenseAlert - 05/07/2008
May 7, 2008 -- The House Armed Services airland subcommittee made few changes to funding requested for Navy programs under the president's proposed fiscal year 2009 budget in its mark-up of the defense authorization bill today, adding money for a second Joint Strike Fighter engine and Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles but changing little else. |
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- Joint Forces Staff College Paper on JIEDDO
- House, Senate 7/19/2007 Floor Debate on the Iraq War
- Biden Amendment on MRAP Spending
- MRAP Reprogramming Requests
- House Lawmaker's Statement on MRAP
- Levin's Letters to Biden, Gates on MRAP
- DOD IG Report on Procurement Policy for Armored Vehicles
- DOD Briefing on IEDs, Iraq
- DOD Briefing on Iraq, IEDs
- Gates, Pace Briefing on IEDs and MRAPs
- DOD Directive on CREW Technology
- GAO Report on Active Protection Systems
- NNSA Statement on U.S.-China Nuclear Weapons Agreement
- NNSA Statement on the Dismantlement of Nuclear Weapons
- House Lawmakers' Letter on Army Body Armor Protection
- Army Memo on MRAP Acquisition
- Gates Memo on MRAP Program Task Force
- Army RFP for MMPV
- Gates Memo on DX Priority Rating for MRAP
- Marine Corps Statement on Additional MRAP Vehicle Order