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Army

Army Announces AMPV Award Worth Up to $1.2 Billion for BAE Systems

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Monday, December 29th, 2014

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Army Announces AMPV Award Worth Up to $1.2 Billion for BAE Systems

AMPV. Photo: BAE Systems.

BAE Systems was awarded a contract up to $1.2 billion for engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) and low-rate initial production (LRIP) for the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) program.The initial award for the EMD phase, announced last week, is worth approximately $383 million and covers 29 vehicles across each of the five variants: general purpose, mission command, mortar carrier, medical evaluation, and medical treatment vehicles. Fiscal year 2014 and 2015 research, development, test and evaluation funds are included in this award.Work…

Congress

House Authorizers Retain Battleship Funding, But Want Nuclear-Power Report

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) Thursday markup of the FY 2027 defense authorization bill rejected an amendment to cut funding for the new Trump-class battleship (BBG(X)), but did agree […]

Congress

HASC Rejects $150 Billion Topline Cut, Iran Cost Transparency Proposals At NDAA Markup

The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) on Thursday rejected a Democrat-led proposal to cut the $1.15 trillion fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by $150 billion, as the […]

HASC Wants Pentagon List Of Critical F-35 Technical Data Rights And Estimate Of Cost To Buy Them For Repairs

The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) wants the Pentagon to inform the committee of critical technical data rights for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter and how much it would […]

Space

NRO Nominee: “We Have To Look Differently At Our Requirements”

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has said that it has launched more than 200 proliferated low Earth orbit satellites in the last two years to supplement the costly high-end systems […]