82nd Airborne Division units get Infantry Squad Vehicle in program milestone
Budget documents lay out some of the Army's purchasing plan for the vehicles, recently the subject of a harsh Pentagon tester report.
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Budget documents lay out some of the Army's purchasing plan for the vehicles, recently the subject of a harsh Pentagon tester report.
The second increment of the Army's Small Multipurpose Equipment Transport will likely include requirements for a platform that would provide a weapons system, a communications retransmission asset, extra batteries or a launch platform for small drones.
Latest version of the AStRA competition will focus on networking tools and power sources.
"The ISV is not designed to defeat or counter specific threats nor is it intended to operate as a combat fighting platform," Steve Herrick, the senior program office official, told Breaking Defense.
BAE systems and Oshkosh Defense, with its partner ST Engineering, will now compete for the contract, with an award expected near the end of June.