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Navy/USMC

Marine Corps ACV Decision Expected Early Next Week

Tuesday, November 17th, 2015

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Marine Corps ACV Decision Expected Early Next Week

Former Deputy Defense Secretary Bill Lynn said industry should worry less about competition in platforms and focus on competition in areas including vehicles, like the amphibious assault vehicle (AAV) shown here. Photo: Navy.

The Marine Corps plans to cull the field of five companies competing to build the its next amphibious vehicle to just two early next week.A spokesman for the Marine Corps land systems program office on Tuesday told Defense Daily that the decision on which two companies would move on to the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the amphibious combat vehicle (ACV) program would be made early in the week of Nov. 23.A defense acquisition board must first meet and…

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