In the near term the Marine Corps will set aside the bulk of its science and technology funding for autonomy, specifically looking at how to integrate that capability onto trucks, according to an official.
Tactical Wheeled Vehicles
April 03, 2017 |
Daily News
January 16, 2017 |
Daily News
A new budget blueprint drawn up by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) would fund a massive military buildup by seeking an additional $430 billion in defense spending above what the Obama administration had planned for the next five years, Inside Defense has learned.
January 05, 2017 |
Inside the Air Force
The Air Force is looking at armored ground vehicles to replace its Humvees that defend missile-launch sites, according to a request for information posted last month and subsequent news reports.
November 23, 2016 |
Daily News
The Government Accountability Office has issued a report urging the Defense Department to enhance its reporting to Congress on major acquisition programs -- a recommendation the Pentagon has rejected as impractical and unnecessary.
November 22, 2016 |
Daily News
The decision by House and Senate leaders to delay action on a full-year fiscal year 2017 spending bill until the spring could restrain Pentagon plans to increase funding across a wide range of modernization programs, including the entire strategic weapon system recapitalization portfolio and marquee projects critical to each military service.
November 09, 2016 |
Inside the Pentagon
U.S. Special Command is seeking industry's input for powering a light tactical all-terrain vehicle that weighs less than 2,500 pounds.
November 03, 2016 |
Daily News
While the Army is using Oshkosh Defense's Joint Light Tactical Vehicle as an interim solution to meet Light Reconnaissance Vehicle requirements, the service is taking steps to define a permanent solution for the future.
October 18, 2016 |
Daily News
The next-generation Light Armored Vehicle being contemplated by requirements developers needs to have an open-architecture design and could be based on the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, according to the head of Marine Corps requirements.
October 18, 2016 |
Daily News
The next-generation Light Armored Vehicle currently being contemplated by requirements developers needs to have an open-architecture design and could be based off the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, according to the head of Marine Corps requirements.
September 30, 2016 |
Inside the Navy
Oshkosh Defense has the capacity to build Joint Light Tactical Vehicles for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps while concurrently producing vehicles for a foreign government such as the United Kingdom.
September 27, 2016 |
Daily News
Oshkosh Defense received a Joint Light Tactical Vehicle contract modification in the same week the company is scheduled to complete the vehicle's first delivery.
September 27, 2016 |
Daily News
The Army must prioritize "close combat overmatch" and ground vehicles in its modernization efforts, according to the director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center, housed within Training and Doctrine Command.
August 26, 2016 |
Inside the Army
The Army last week released a presolicitation notice regarding a contract for upgrades to the family of medium tactical vehicles, although quantities and funding levels remain pending.
August 12, 2016 |
Inside the Navy
Congress has approved a $9.5 million reprogramming action allowing the Marine Corps to buy 144 Polaris MRZRS as part of a new-start "utility task vehicle" program.
July 29, 2016 |
Inside the Army
The Army is keeping to its schedule for the Ground Mobility Vehicle, which the service touts as a key investment in the push to rebuild readiness and address emerging threats.
July 22, 2016 |
Inside the Army
The Army is working to address delamination of transparent armor in its Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle fleet, Inside the Army has learned.
July 22, 2016 |
Inside the Navy
The Marine Corps hopes to modify its performance specification for transparent armor over the next three to four months as the service's first wave of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles are in reset at depots across the country.
July 15, 2016 |
Inside the Navy
The Marine Corps is awaiting analysis on safety risks identified from its urgent acquisition of the Automatic Fire Extinguishing System for the Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement, according to the service.
July 08, 2016 |
Daily News
The Army wants to accelerate the start of a new program to develop a combat tow truck that can haul more than 80 tons -- to replace the current Heavy Equipment Transporter System that can pull 70 tons -- by using fiscal year 2016 funds to kick-start an engineering study that previously was planned to begin in FY-17.
July 06, 2016 |
Daily News
The Marine Corps is seeking a solution from industry on faulty transparent armor ballistic glass across the tactical wheeled vehicle fleet, Inside Defense has learned.