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Army

JLTV Reduction To Happen Over FYDP, Officials Planning Program Assessment For 2020

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, March 28th, 2019

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JLTV Reduction To Happen Over FYDP, Officials Planning Program Assessment For 2020

Oshkosh JLTV at the Bushmaster Users Conference in Arizona in Jan. sporting a Kongsberg remote weapon station and 30 mm cannon. (Oshkosh photo)

Army officials this week clarified that a reduction to the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program will result in slowing down the planned buy over the next five years while keeping the current acquisition objective, a number that could potentially change as leadership conducts an assessment of its tactical vehicle fleet through 2020. Under Secretary Ryan McCarthy and Gen. Mike Murray, head of Army Futures Command, told reporters at the AUSA Global Force Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama, the previously announced…

Congress

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Congress

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Congress

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