Congress injects millions of dollars to advance next-gen combat vehicle technology
By: Jen Judson   22 hours ago
WASHINGTON — While essentially killing the U.S. Army’s plan to competitively acquire a replacement for the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle, Congress in its fiscal 2020 defense spending package is injecting more than $100 million to fund the advancement of next-generation combat vehicle technology and is allocated another couple hundred million dollars for technology that will benefit related efforts.
The second top modernization priority is the Army’s next-generation combat vehicle, and the service’s first major move toward modernizing its combat vehicle fleet was to replace the Bradley. But that hasn’t gone according to plan after the Army received only one bid from General Dynamics Land Systems in its optionally manned fighting vehicle, or OMFV, competition to replace the Bradley in October.
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