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BAE Systems Wins $278.2 Million Deal To Build Army’s New Cold Weather All-Terrain Vehicle

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, August 22nd, 2022

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BAE Systems Wins $278.2 Million Deal To Build Army’s New Cold Weather All-Terrain Vehicle

Beowulf. Photo: BAE Systems.

BAE Systems on Monday won the Army’s competition to build the service’s new Cold-Weather All-Terrain Vehicle (CATV), beating out Oshkosh Defense [OSK] for the $278.2 million production contract. The CATV program is intended to replace the Army’s legacy Small Unit Support Vehicles, also built by BAE Systems and in service since the 1980s, and is a key piece of the Army’s new Arctic strategy, which calls for procuring a new platform to offer improved mobility in cold-weather, mountainous conditions. Work…

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