Marines Forging Ahead with Amphibious Combat Vehicles
9/6/2019
By Connie Lee
The Marine Corps is pursuing a new family of amphibious combat vehicles with multiple variants that can carry troops from sea to shore.
The ACV program is intended to replace the 40-year-old amphibious assault vehicle. The previous $3 billion replacement effort, deemed the expeditionary fighting vehicle, was canceled in 2011 because of the system’s poor reliability and cost growth, according to the Congressional Research Service.
In 2015, BAE Systems and SAIC were awarded contracts to build 16 prototypes each for two-year testing. Engineering and manufacturing assessments kicked off in 2017. BAE and its partner Iveco Defence Vehicles — an Italian military vehicle manufacturer — won a downselect in June 2018 and was awarded a $198 million contract for a personnel variant. The contract included producing 30 systems for low-rate initial production.
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2019/9/6/marines-forging-ahead-with-amphibious-combat-vehicles
