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3, 2007: AM General and General Dynamics Land Systems today
announced they will form a joint venture to compete for the
U.S. Army and Marine Corps Joint
Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program. The new joint venture
company called General Tactical Vehicles will design, develop
and produce a highly mobile, highly survivable and innovative
wheeled utility vehicle for the armed services to meet all the
requirements of the JLTV program. Lockheed
Martin, Armor Holdings have already Teamed to bid on the JLTV
program in October 06.
General Tactical Vehicles will locate in the Detroit metropolitan
area to leverage the best of American automotive technology
and military research and development to deliver the JLTV. The
joint venture is the first-ever collaborative project for the
two American defense companies, both of whom were awarded JLTV
"Best Technical Approach" trade studies by the Office
of Naval Research in 2006. Earlier in 2006 General Dynamics
Land Systems and Oshkosh Truck to build Joint Light Tactical
Vehicle (JLTV) mock-ups and conceptual designs, modeling and
simulation to provide tradeoff analysis for the evaluation of
future development of such vehicles.
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