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Lockheed Martin HAVOC Vehicle Successfully Concludes Technology Demonstration

Tuesday, September 24th, 2013

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] said it successfully completed a technology demonstration for its 8x8 armored, modular HAVOC vehicle that is competing on the Marine Personnel Carrier vehicle program. In August 2012, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems and Iveco Defense Vehicles and ST Kinetics/SAIC each received $3.5 million technology demonstration contracts. “We just concluded the technology demonstration on July 12,” Ric Magness, director of Ground Vehicles for Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, told Defense Daily. At the Marines’ Camp Pendleton, Calif., the…

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