Lockheed submits proposal for military vehicles
OWEGO — Lockheed Martin Systems Integration — Owego said Monday it submitted its proposal for the technology development phase of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program to build next-generation JLTVs for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps.
The program could ultimately be worth billions of dollars and has been a large focus of the company’s entry into tactical wheeled vehicles, Lockheed said.
The services are expected to award a 27-month-long technology development contract to two or three JLTV competitors this summer. The technology development phase will be followed by a systems design and development phase in 2010 and later by a production contract.
The services plan to order as many as 50,000 vehicles during the initial production phase.
Lockheed said its vehicle offering relies more on situational awareness to avoid and communicate threats versus additional armor for survival.
“Today’s brute force approach to survivability is based on adding more armor,” said Louis DeSantis, vice president and general manager of Ground Vehicle Systems at Lockheed in Owego. “Our holistic approach to JLTV survivability sees armor as a last resort.”
Lockheed said its vehicle also features excellent mobility, weapons and countermeasures to neutralize threats, and a new armor composition combined with a hull and structural design for protection if an attack cannot be avoided.
The Lockheed-led JLTV team includes BAE Systems Mobility & Protection Systems, Alcoa Defense and JWF — Defense Systems.
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