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Army Industrial Base Study Leads to Changes in PIM Acquisition Strategy

Mai Hanoon

Monday, October 28th, 2013

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A new Army study of its armored vehicle industrial base focuses on the “minimum sustaining rate” as a way to both protect vendors and keep costs down for the military, and the study’s results have already begun altering the way the Army will procure components, with leaders deciding to buy engines for the BAE Systems-built Paladin Integrated Management (PIM) vehicle ahead of schedule. Speaking at a press briefing at the Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting and exposition on…

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