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SAIC-Led Team Outlines ‘Unique’ Offering For Army GCV

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Friday, June 11th, 2010

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The SAIC [SAI]-led team of Boeing [BA], Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), and Rheinmetall Defence (RMD) said their offering for the Army's Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) vehicle will be unlike anything the Army has seen. The "Team Full Spectrum" vehicle offering, intended to replace the Bradley Fighting Vehicle and M113, is highly survivable and state of the art, said Dan Zanini, SAIC senior vice president, in a teleconference. The vehicle, which will leverage the current state-of-the-art KMW-RMD developed Puma, also will incorporate…

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