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Army

General Dynamics, BAE Systems Win Study Contracts For Future Fighting Vehicle

Defense Daily Staff

Tuesday, August 19th, 2014

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General Dynamics, BAE Systems Win Study Contracts For Future Fighting Vehicle

Notional Ground Combat Vehicle Source: BAE Systems

General Dynamics [GD] and BAE Systems were each awarded $7.9 million study contracts for a Future Fighting Vehicle (FFV). Each cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, awarded Aug. 13, is for technical, cost, and risk assessments against select requirements for technology integration refinement that leverage the Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) technology development phase assets for potential incorporation for a (FFV) system, according to the Defense Department contract announcements. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel accepted an Army recommendation to terminate the GCV in the fiscal…

Congress

Key Defense Committee Members Face Tight Midterm Races, Including HASC GOP’ers In Virginia

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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

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]