AM General LLC yesterday said it is backing two separate proposals for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program.
AM General yesterday said has submitted an independent JLTV solution for the EMD phase, separate from the proposal from General Tactical Vehicles, a joint venture it entered in 2007 with General Dynamics [GD].
AM General’s new Blast-Resistant Vehicle–Off Road (BRV-O) is based on more than a decade of the company’s own investments in research, development and testing for the next-generation light tactical military vehicle.
The BRV-O meets or exceeds 100 percent of the government’s program evaluation criteria including protection, performance, payload, transportability, reliability and affordability, the company said in a statement.
BRV-O features a crew capsule and modular armor already proven effective in government-supervised blast testing. This AM General design can be readily adapted to future changes in U.S. military missions, enemy threats and new protection technologies as they emerge.
The new mobile and versatile BRV-O also has a lightweight, fuel efficient, high performance engine; a self-leveling suspension system; a C4ISR backbone with open-standard networked architecture and clustered super-computing power, and other advanced components.
The company said that equipment and other mature subsystems have been tested, refined and validated. This makes BRV-O cost effective and production ready, with the high degree of reliability needed by the Army and Marines.
AM General’s effort with GTV resulted in one of the JLTV Technology Demonstration phase contracts.
Both proposals for JLTV EMD backed by AM General have the added value of the company’s 50-plus years of experience, the company said.