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GM Defense: Army To Start Buying New ISV-U Early Next Year, Will Make Up Majority Of Fleet

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, November 4th, 2025

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GM Defense: Army To Start Buying New ISV-U Early Next Year, Will Make Up Majority Of Fleet

GM Defense's Infantry Squad Vehicle-Utility at the 2025 Association of the U.S. Army conference in Washington, D.C. Photo: Matthew Beinart.

The Army is set to start buying GM Defense’s [GM] new five-seat, cargo-carrying Infantry Squad Vehicle variant early next year, a company official has said. Pete Johnson, GM Defense’s vice president of business development for integrated vehicles, told Defense Daily the Army is planning to eventually have a greater number of the new ISV-Utility vehicles in its fleet than the base nine-seat troop carrier version, a move he said was informed by Transforming in Contact (TiC) feedback. “They’ve approved this…

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