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Companies Submit Proposals For USSOCOM GMV 1.1 Vehicle

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, June 18th, 2012

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Incumbent AM General, General Dynamics [GD], a Navistar [NAV]-Indigen Armor-SAIC [SAI] team, Oshkosh [OSK], and Northrop Grumman [NOC] partnered with BAE Systems and Pratt and Miller Engineering, all said last week they submitted proposals for the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) Ground Mobility Vehicle (GMV 1.1) program. The contract award is expected by January 2013 with production expected to begin in 2013 and end in mid-2020. The special operations command wants a more advanced vehicle than the current SOF-specific GMV versions based…

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