General Dynamics Bags $2.2b Contract For Light Armored Vehicles
Published:24-November-2009
By Staff Reporter
To deliver a 300 horsepower 8x8 vehicle with a gross vehicle weight of up to 32,000 lbs
The US Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command, in support of the US Army Security Assistance Command (USASAC), has awarded a $2.2 billion contract to General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada for 724 Light Armored Vehicles (LAV) for a Foreign Military Sale (FMS).
The vehicle deliveries are expected to begin in April 2011. General Dynamics Land Systems, the Canadian company's parent corporation, is a business unit of General Dynamics. Reportedly, the contract was signed through the Canadian Commercial Corporation, a Crown Agency of the Canadian Government.
Sridhar Sridharan, senior vice-president of General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada, said: "We are pleased to be working once again with TACOM and USASAC in support of their Foreign Military Sales program. This contract now allows us to immediately start work on variant design and production readiness. We look forward to reaching the manufacturing portion of this contract which will help us bring stability to our production workforce."
The company said that vehicles provided under this contract will be the LAV II version, a 300 horsepower 8x8 vehicle with a gross vehicle weight of up to 32,000 lbs (14,500 kg) and would be produced in 10 different variants.
