The Military Vehicle Superproject Contract: Who Will Get It? - KUAR
Last week, Arkansas Economic Development Commission executive director Mike Preston revealed that the U. S. Department of Defense has told him the award of the highly-coveted Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) will be announced on one of the next... When the Pentagon announces the winner of the $30 billion JLTV contract, it will have been almost 10 years since the idea of a 21st Century Jeep to replace the bulky, unarmored Humvee emerged in the midst of the Iraq War. Since the concept of a next-generation, technology-savvy armored vehicle that is “fleet-on-its-feet” was birthed sometime in 2005, the so-called JLTV program has run into the type of bureaucracy that has plagued the Pentagon’s acquisition and... Officially, the JLTV program became public when the Joint Chief of Staff’s Joint Requirement Oversight Council (JROC) announced the program in November 2006. But shortly thereafter, the program began hitting snags that ranged from delays caused by... According to a military-style, acronym-heavy narrative provided to U. S. lawmakers by the Congressional Research Service in March 2015, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics first directed the JLTV project to... Source: ualrpublicradio.org
