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The Army wants to delay the start of its armored multi-purpose vehicle program by one year and raise its development costs by several hundred million dollars,according to Defense News.You can call this a face saving move. This program is as dead as disco.
The Army wants to buy 2,097 AMPVs over 13 years costing roughly $1.8 million apiece. The new draft request for proposals released Tuesday does not include an average unit manufacturing cost, unlike the March draft. The Army will now plan to award a five-year contract in May 2014 to one contractor that will manufacture 29 vehicles for government testing. This will be followed by a three-year low-rate initial production contract starting in 2020.
