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Winner-Take-All Order For All-Terrain MRAP Expected As Soon As Today

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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

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By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon is expected to order as soon as today thousands of a new off-road variety of the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle (MRAP) for troops in Afghanistan. Congressional, military, and industry sources said they expect just one of five teams that received contracts in April for test vehicles to receive a final production-delivery- order award for the MRAP All-Terrain Vehicle (M-ATV); this jibes with comments in both solicitation documents and from Marine Corps officials that the…

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