• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Excelitas Qioptiq banner

BATTLESPACE Updates

   +44 (0)77689 54766
   

  • Home
  • Features
  • News Updates
  • Company Directory
  • About
  • Subscribe
  • Contact
  • Media Pack 2022

MILITARY VEHICLE NEWS

January 26, 2011 by

Web Page sponsored by MILLBROOK

Millbrook, based in Bedfordshire, UK, makes a significant contribution to the quality and performance of military vehicles worldwide. Its specialist expertise is focussed in two distinct areas: test programmes to help armed services and their suppliers ensure that their vehicles and systems work as the specification requires; and design and build work to upgrade new or existing vehicles, evaluate vehicle capability and investigate in-service failures. Complementing these is driver and service training and a hospitality business that allows customers to use selected areas of Millbrook’s remarkable facilities for demonstrations and exhibitions.

Tel: +44 (0) 1525 408408

www.millbrook.co.uk/military

——————————————————————
21 Jan 11. The same three industry teams that competed during the first round of the U.S. Army’s Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) program have submitted new bids, industry officials confirmed. Bids for the program are due Jan. 21. All three teams submitted bids last spring under the Army’s first request for proposals (RfP). In August, the Army withdrew that RfP and issued a revised request in November. A team led by General Dynamics Land Systems that includes Lockheed Martin and Raytheon is submitting a bid, a General Dynamics official confirmed Jan. 20. An SAIC-led team that includes Boeing, Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Rheinmetall
Defence is submitting a bid that builds on SAIC and Boeing experience with the Future Combat Systems Manned Ground Vehicle effort and the German Puma Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV).
“The Puma is the only production-ready IFV designed from the ground up since Sept. 11, 2001, and incorporates the lessons of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” SAIC said in a Jan. 21 statement.
Finally, BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman have paired up to offer a
hybrid-electric drive vehicle. When the new RfP was released, the BAE-Northrop team considered everything, “but when you looked at the requirements, it was clear that hybrid-electric drive still offers many advantages and facilitates the technology integration challenges,” said Mark Signorelli, vice president and general manager of Ground
Combat Vehicles at BAE Systems, in a December interview.
Advanced Defense Vehicle Systems, a small Michigan-based business whose GCV bid was rejected during the original proposal solicitation, reviewed the service’s plans and decided to withdraw from the second round of competition, company officials said Jan. 18. The Army plans to award up to three technology development contracts in
April. (Source: Defense News)

25 Jan 11. The U.S. Marine Corps’ latest-generation Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) prototypes have completed the required 500-hour reliability growth test at the Marine Corps’ Amphibious Vehicle Test Branch, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., demonstrating reliability that exceeds the testing threshold by 90 percent. The raw score performance of the vehicles in the reliability testing is 31.2 hours mean time between operational mission failure, nearly double the 16.4-hour performance required for test success. In addition, vehicle operational readiness rates steadily remained at 97 percent throughout testing. General Dynamics delivered seven new prototype vehicles to the Marine Corps in 2010. Reliability growth testing began in October 2010. The vehicles’ performance indicates the program is on track to successfully complete the System Development and Demonstration-2 phase.
All reported preliminary failures are low-consequence issues, a tribute to the rigor and commitment of the EFV team, and the most significant aspect of this testing. No systems redesign work is required as a result of test findings. These indicate significant endorsement of the “design for reliability” concept and processes, as well as the General Dynamics Land Systems team’s capabilities and discipline. The EFV progr

Primary Sidebar

Advertisers

  • qioptiq.com
  • Exensor
  • TCI
  • Visit the Oxley website
  • Visit the Viasat website
  • Blighter
  • SPECTRA
  • InVeris
  • Britbots logo
  • Faun Trackway
  • Systematic
  • CISION logo
  • ProTEK logo
  • businesswire logo
  • ProTEK logo
  • ssafa logo
  • DSEi
  • Atkins
  • IEE
  • EXFOR logo
  • KME logo
Hilux DVD2022 GlobalMilSat

Contact Us

BATTLESPACE Publications
Old Charlock
Abthorpe Road
Silverstone
Towcester NN12 8TW

+44 (0)77689 54766

BATTLESPACE Technologies

An international defence electronics news service providing our readers with up to date developments in the defence electronics industry.

Recent News

  • EXHIBITIONS AND CONFERENCES

    July 1, 2022
    Read more
  • VETERANS UPDATE

    July 1, 2022
    Read more
  • MANAGEMENT ON THE MOVE

    July 1, 2022
    Read more

Copyright BATTLESPACE Publications © 2002–2022.

This website uses cookies to improve your experience. If you continue to use the website, we'll assume you're ok with this.   Read More  Accept
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT