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SAIC Courts Marine Corps ACV Program With Souped Up Singaporean Vehicle

SAIC Courts Marine Corps ACV Program With Souped Up Singaporean Vehicle
TERREX 2 completes swim test in Charleston, South Carolina. During the past decade, SAIC has upgraded more than 40,000 vehicles for the DoD in its 360,000 sq. ft. production facility in Charleston.

When the Marine Corps put a call for an off-the-shelf wheeled Marine personnel carrier (MPC), industry hopefuls began looking within their own portfolios and to other manufacturers to find a suitable platform. Science Applications International Corp. [SAIC] settled on the Terrex vehicle developed by Singaporean company ST Kinetics, which was designed from scratch to perform as an armored personnel carrier capable of fording rivers and operating in shallow littorals. The team offered the original version of Terrex during the MPC…

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