A close watcher of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program could be forgiven for discounting Oshkosh [OSK] as the eventual winner of the $30 billion contract to replace Army and Marine Corps Humvees.The company, then partnered with Northrop Grumman [NOC], in 2008 was denied entry to the program’s technology demonstration (TD) phase.Losing out on the TD phase might have been exactly what enabled the veteran truck manufacturer to come back and win the initial $6 billion contract to build…
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