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BAE Systems Working With DoD To Preserve Key GCV Industrial Base Skills

Wednesday, November 20th, 2013

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The Defense Department and its various services are working with BAE Systems’ United States wing on ways to preserve key skills from Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) production in case they are needed again in the future. “There is now recognition that there are selected skills, capabilities and design engineering…that involve armored steel and titanium that are not reconsitutable in any way,” BAE Systems Inc. CEO Linda Hudson said yesterday at the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington. BAE Systems Inc.…

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