The US Army Has Big Plans for the M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank
By
Peter Suciu
The M1 Abrams Just Keeps Rolling On: The management at General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, has much to celebrate this holiday season, as it was announced last week that the defense contractor has been awarded a new contract worth nearly $100 million from the U.S. Army Contracting Command for the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank (MBT).
According to a statement from the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) contract portal, “General Dynamics Land Systems Inc., Sterling Heights, Michigan, was awarded a $93,519,000 fixed-price-incentive contract for M1A2 Abrams engineering, manufacturing, design and production. Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work will be performed in Lima, Ohio, with an estimated completion date of Sep. 30, 2025. Fiscal 2019 Foreign Military Sales funds in the amount of $93,519,000 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Detroit Arsenal, Michigan, is the contracting activity (W56HZV-22-C-0005).”
The defense contractor had previously been awarded a $4.6 billion fixed-price-incentive contract to produce M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams main battle tanks for the U.S. Army. Under the terms of that contract, which was announced last December, work locations and funding would be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of June 17, 2028. The first delivery order is valued at an estimated $406 million.
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