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U.S. Marine Corps Awards General Dynamics $44 Million Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle Contract STERLING HEIGHTS, Michigan. – The U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command in Quantico, Virginia., has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), a $44.4 million contract to complete the systems development and demonstration (SDD) phase of the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) program. General Dynamics will provide all required materials, services, personnel and facilities to complete EFV design and development, perform studies and analyses, manufacture and test all SDD prototypes, prepare for production, initiate logistics support and successfully complete the SDD phase. Work will be performed by General Dynamics Amphibious Systems, an operating unit of General Dynamics Land Systems, in Camp Pendleton, Calif.; Aberdeen, Md.; Sterling Heights, Mich.; and Woodbridge, Va. Work is expected to be completed by September 2009. The EFV is an amphibious assault vehicle with a breakthrough design that provides the Marines with a transformational leap in technology and capability resulting in dramatically improved land and sea performance. The Marines are currently executing a multi-phased land, sea and force-on-force Operational Assessment (OA) of the EFV. Last month, the EFV successfully completed the gunnery phase of the assessment at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Off-shore ocean operations testing will be conducted in June and July near Camp Pendleton, Calif., to be followed by land and force-on-force combat maneuvers at Twenty-Nine Palms, Calif., July through September. Once deployed, the EFV will help the Marines sustain inland combat operations by maximizing tactical surprise; minimizing vulnerability on land; providing improved firepower, lethality, and survivability; and providing command, control, communication, computer and intelligence (C4I) on-the-move capability. On land, the EFV will maneuver and fight as an integrated part of the joint services ground combat force. The vehicle is capable of speeds up to 45 mph allowing it to complement the Abrams main battle tank during offensive maneuvers to inland objectives. The EFV’s land mobility and communications capabilities provides Marines the ability to exploit enemy force vulnerabilities. Off shore, the EFV allows Marines to implement their Operational Maneuver from the Sea doctrine. The EFV can launch forces from 20 to 25 nautical miles at sea, carrying its crew of three and 17 combat-ready Marines to shore at speeds in excess of 20 knots, three times faster than the current AAVP7-A1. This provides a significant increase in operational flexibility and agility. The Marine Corps awarded General Dynamics the EFV contract in 1996. The vehicle entered the SDD phase in 2001. Production of 1,013 vehicles is planned to begin in fiscal year 2007 and continue until 2020. Source: General Dynamics More Stryker wheeled combat vehicles for US Army STERLING HEIGHTS: The U.S. Army has placed its 2006 fiscal year order for 306 Stryker wheeled combat vehicles from General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics. The order is valued at $463.9 million and is an extension of a November 2000 contract to provide more than 2,100 armored vehicles. To date, approximately 1,500 Strykers have been delivered. Work will be performed in Anniston, Ala.; Lima, Ohio; and London, Ontario, Canada, by existing General Dynamics employees. Vehicle deliveries are slated for April 2007 through March 2008. Stryker, a family of eight-wheel-drive combat vehicles that can travel at speeds up to 62 mph on highways with a range of 312 miles, is the Army's highest-priority production combat vehicle program and the centerpiece of the ongoing Army Transformation. Stryker's current combined fleet operational readiness rate is in excess of 96 percent with more than 6 million miles accumulated through two completed Operation Iraqi Freedom rotations. Stryker vehicle variants have more than 70 percent common components within the 300- plus Strykers comprising a brigade combat team, increasing cost-effectiveness of the fleet by easing the unit's training and logistics burden. Stryker operates with the latest C4ISR equipment and an integrated armor package protecting soldiers against improvised explosive devices, rocket propelled grenades and a variety of infantry weapons. The Mobile Gun Systems and Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicles, the newest Stryker configurations, were delivered in late 2005. Other Stryker vehicle configurations include: the anti-tank guided missile and medical evacuation vehicles; and carriers for mortars, engineer squads, command groups and fire- support teams. Significantly lighter and more transportable than existing tanks and armored vehicles, Stryker fulfills an immediate requirement to equip a strategically deployable (C-17/C-5) and operationally deployable (C-130) brigade capable of rapid movement anywhere on the globe in a combat-ready configuration. Stryker Brigade Combat Teams have operated with "historically high" mission availability rates in Iraq since October 2003, demonstrating the value of a force that can move rapidly as a cohesive and networked combined- arms combat team. Source: General Dynamics |
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