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Supacat, Navistar Defense, Sign MoU On Future Support

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, June 20th, 2013

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Supacat, Navistar Defense, Sign MoU On Future Support

Supacat and Navistar Defense [NAV] yesterday said they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form a team to deliver collaborative future support to the U.K. Ministry of Defense’s protected mobility fleet. At the MoD Defense Vehicle Dynamics (DVD) 2013 vehicle show, the companies said partnering allows the two support service suppliers to integrate their existing Urgent Operational Requirement (UOR) based support structures to improve combined capabilities on offers as vehicles are brought back from Afghanistan into the Army 2020…

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