The Army is looking for potential domestic and international vendors that could provide a commercial off the shelf (COTS) or modified COTS (MOTS) light reconnaissance vehicle (LRV) to possibly enhance Infantry Brigade Combat teams.
A Platform Performance Demonstration (PPD) effort would take about one week at Ft. Bragg, N.C., in mid-October.
The light armored LRV should be internally and externally transportable by a CH-47 Chinook helicopter to support the Global Response Force—forced entry mission.
Interested partners should look at light vehicles lethal enough to defeat and engage hardened enemy bunkers, light armored vehicles, and dismounted personnel in machine gun and sniper positions.
Potential vendors should consider such things as commonality and modularity of proposed solutions among the Infantry Brigade Combat Team while ensuring the solution is CH-47 transportable.
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The Army TARDEC-RDECOM team has drafted the Request for Information (RFI) in an effort to gather needed information from potential interested companies to support the LRV Initiative to improve their IBCT Light Vehicle Force.
The RFI is intended to obtain information regarding the candidate vehicles, including technology, production capabilities, transportability, mobility, vehicle operational range, crew capacity, lethality, protection, and rough order of magnitude cost information.
The Light Reconnaissance Vehicle (LRV) will consist of a readily available COTS/MOTS/GOTS light armor wheeled or track quote mark vehicle able to support the IBCT and be transported by CH-47.
The LRV Lethality includes/not limited to the ability of being able to detect, destroy, and survive multiple threats seen in the battlefield while sustaining minimal damage to the soldier.
Capabilities the Army wants the LRV to have include: an operational range greater than the Humvee M1025, the ability to conduct silent watch, have C4ISR, kinetic energy/blast protection, and the ability to move and shoot day or night in all weather and visibility conditions and operate in complex terrain while defeating second tier armor threats.
The Army intends for its subject matter expert team of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and engineers to review submissions to gain knowledge of technology and market availability.
Those contractors unable to furnish a physical vehicle demonstrator may present substitute material such as poster boards, models or information, the RFI states.
Vendors desiring to respond to this request should provide a white paper that describes vehicle/projects/technologies in detail that have been used, at a minimum, the specific information of interest. Other information of potential interest that vendors could include current and investigational applications of product, future commercial developments, references that document recovery and efficiency of the system or product, and photographs of complete system and components.
Vendors must supply their information as requested by Sept. 15.
The RFI and specific information can be found on fbo.gov: