By Emelie Rutherford Oshkosh Corp. [OSK] is on track to build all of the new, lighter mine-resistant vehicles the Pentagon wants by next April, and expects last Friday's vehicle order to be followed by another award in the near future, a company executive said yesterday. The Pentagon ordered 1,700 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicles (M-ATVs) from Oshkosh on July 31, raising to 3,944 the number of the new Afghanistan-bound trucks it has bought from the company since it won…
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