Pencils up: Bids are due for Army’s Bradley replacement and it’s only the beginning 2 hours ago U.S. Army 3rd Division 3-7 Bradley fighting vehicles take up a position along a road March 19, 2003, inside the demilitarized zone between Kuwait and Iraq. (Scott Nelson/Getty Images) WASHINGTON The deadline to submit a preliminary design for the Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) is April 16, but the cutoff marks not the time for industry officials to put pencils down, but rather the time to pick them up. Among the companies that have announced bid submissions or intentions to compete are prime defense contractors General Dynamics Land Systems, BAE Systems and a Rheinmetall North America-led team to include Raytheon, Textron and L3Harris.
L3Harris, American Rheinmetall Vehicles Team to Pursue U.S. Army’s New Fighting Vehicle
L3Harris Technologies and German integrated technology group Rheinmetall’s subsidiary American Rheinmetall Vehicles have signed a teaming agreement to jointly develop the U.S. Army’s new Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV), which will replace the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle.
The agreement combines L3Harris’ open system design and equipment manufacturing leadership with the maturity and modularity of American Rheinmetall Vehicles’ Lynx next-generation fighting vehicle for an OMFV offering that is low-risk and easily upgradable.
American Rheinmetall Vehicles, the prime contractor, selected L3Harris to provide vehicle mission systems, cybersecurity and its modular open systems approach (MOSA) for the Lynx. L3Harris’ MOSA can enable cross-platform and cross-domain commonality of parts and subsystems to a
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L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) and American Rheinmetall Vehicles have signed a teaming agreement to jointly develop the U.S. Army’s new Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV), which will replace the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle.
American Rheinmetall Vehicles, the prime contractor, selected L3Harris to provide vehicle mission systems, cybersecurity and its modular open systems approach (MOSA) for the Lynx.( Image Credit: American Rheinmetall Vehicles)
The agreement combines L3Harris’ open system design and equipment manufacturing leadership with the maturity and modularity of American Rheinmetall Vehicles’ Lynx next-generation fighting vehicle for an OMFV offering that is low-risk and easily upgradable.
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The Army is “waiting with bated breath” for proposals to finish rolling in for its Bradley fighting vehicle replacement program, an official said April 15.
Proposals for the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle, or OMFV, are due April 16 and the service is looking forward to seeing what concepts industry has come up with, said Maj. Gen. Ross Coffman, director of the Next-Generation Combat Vehicle Cross-Functional Team at Army Futures Command.
“Proposals are due from industry tomorrow and we are all waiting with bated breath to see what our fine industry partners can develop,” he said during a conference hosted by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International.