
Germany’s Rheinmetall is looking to keep discussing options with the Army on participating in the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle after missing the deadline to submit a bid sample for the vehicle it had proposed with Raytheon [RTN], a company official said on Monday. Stephen Hedger, head of Rheinmetall’s U.S. business, acknowledged reports that the two companies were unable to deliver a Lynx Fighting Vehicle bid sample for OMFV, and said the competition will require multiple vendors in the prototyping phase…