BAE Systems has received a new $211.5 million full-rate production order from the Marine Corps to deliver 40 more personnel variant Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACV).

Garrett Lacaillade, BAE Systems’ vice president of amphibious vehicles, told

Defense Daily deliveries of ACVs under the latest order are expected to begin in April 2025.

U.S. Marines with Amphibious Vehicle Test Branch, Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity, drive a new Amphibious Combat Vehicle ashore during low-light surf transit testing at AVTB Beach on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Dec. 18, 2019. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Andrew Cortez)

BAE Systems has delivered more than 200 personnel variant ACVs to the Marine Corps to date, according to Lacaillade.

The Marine Corps is pursuing a family of vehicles approach for ACV, which includes the base personnel vehicle along with a command and control platform (ACV-C), a recovery variant (ACV-R) and a turreted variant called the ACV-30.

In March, BAE Systems received a $256.8 million production order split between a $145.3 million contract option for more than 25 base personnel ACVs and $111.5 million for more than 15 ACV-Cs (Defense Daily, March 6). 

The Marine Corps in March 2022 awarded BAE Systems a $34.9 million deal for design and development of the ACV-R followed by an $88 million deal last August to build several ACV-30s for testing (Defense Daily, Aug. 16 2022).

The Marine Corps is also currently pursuing a competitive Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle prototyping effort to help find a replacement for its legacy Light Armored Vehicles, and is currently evaluating a version of BAE Systems’ ACV integrated with a suite of C4/UAS capabilities as well two competitive offerings from General Dynamics Land Systems [GD] and Textron Systems [TXT] as it charts a path forward for the effort (Defense Daily, April 3).