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Navy/USMC

BAE Systems Discussing Requirements, Design Reviews For ACV Variants With Marine Corps

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, February 13th, 2019

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BAE Systems Discussing Requirements, Design Reviews For ACV Variants With Marine Corps

BAE Systems' ACV. David Schacher Photography LLC

BAE Systems is ramping up discussions with the Marine Corps on requirements for the three recently announced variants of the new Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV), with an initial design review for a command and control version to be finalized later in 2019. Jonathan Swift, BAE Systems’ director of amphibious combat vehicles, told Defense Daily Wednesday, the Marine Corps in the last several weeks confirmed ACV has met requirements for the program’s 1.2 phase and will now move forward with a…

Congress

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Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

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Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

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