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Army Says New Generator To Offer Major Fuel Savings

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

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The Army in November plans to deploy to Afghanistan its next-generation tactical generators, a move expected to save 300,000 gallons of fuel each month, service officials said. Production will begin immediately on the Advanced Medium Mobile Power Sources (AMMPS), produced by Cummins Inc.’s [CMI] Cummins Power Generation unit, now that the program received approval in a July 20 full-rate production decision by Brig. Gen. N. Lee Price, program executive officer Command, Control and Communications-Tactical (PEO C3T). Along with the production…

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