JLTV, le remplacant des Humvee

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The final Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) produced for the program’s Engineering, Manufacturing and Development (EMD) phase has rolled off the assembly line, joining a fleet of previously completed vehicles that will be delivered for government testing and evaluation this summer.

The Lockheed Martin team produced a total of 22 JLTV test vehicles, which were manufactured at BAE Systems’ Sealy, Texas, manufacturing facility, a world leader in the production of military and severe-duty wheeled vehicles. Delivery to the U.S. Army and Marine Corps for long-term testing and evaluation is scheduled for August 22.

“Lockheed Martin is committed to providing our soldiers and Marines with a vehicle of unequalled capability and dependability, and one that is affordable both to buy and to operate,” said Scott Greene, vice president of ground vehicles for Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. “We are excited to get these vehicles into the hands of the customer. Early break-in testing is under way, and we are confident that our JLTV design will serve our servicemen and women well.”

Following successes in the program’s Technology Development phase, the U.S. Army and Marine Corps awarded Lockheed Martin a $65 million contract in August 2012 to continue developing JLTV through the EMD phase. Initial tests demonstrated that the Lockheed Martin design provided blast protection equivalent to much larger mine-resistant vehicles in service today. The Lockheed Martin Joint Light Tactical Vehicle balances the “iron triangle” of protection, performance and payload while maintaining affordability. Compared to general-purpose vehicles currently in service, the Lockheed Martin JLTV will provide greatly improved crew protection and mobility, lower logistical support costs, superior fuel efficiency and state-of-the-art connectivity with other platforms and systems. The team’s current JLTV design maintains the proven force protection, transportability and reliability of the earlier Technology Development model, while significantly reducing weight and cost. For more than three decades, Lockheed Martin has applied its systems-integration expertise to a wide range of successful ground vehicles for U.S. and allied forces worldwide. The company’s products include the combat-proven Multiple Launch Rocket System M270-series and HIMARS mobile launchers, Havoc 8x8, Common Vehicle, Light Armored Vehicle-Command and Control, Warrior Capability Sustainment Programme, Joint Light Tactical Vehicle and pioneering unmanned platforms such as the Squad Mission Support System.</p> <p> Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control is a 2012 recipient of the U.S. DepartYment of Commerce’s Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for performance excellence. The Malcolm Baldrige Award represents the highest honor that can be awarded to American companies for their achievements in leadership, strategic planning, customer relations, measurement, analysis, workforce excellence, operations and results.

Following successes in the program’s Technology Development phase, the U.S. Army and Marine Corps awarded Lockheed Martin a $65 million contract in August 2012 to continue developing JLTV through the EMD phase. Initial tests demonstrated that the Lockheed Martin design provided blast protection equivalent to much larger mine-resistant vehicles in service today.

The Lockheed Martin Joint Light Tactical Vehicle balances the “iron triangle” of protection, performance and payload while maintaining affordability. Compared to general-purpose vehicles currently in service, the Lockheed Martin JLTV will provide greatly improved crew protection and mobility, lower logistical support costs, superior fuel efficiency and state-of-the-art connectivity with other platforms and systems. The team’s current JLTV design maintains the proven force protection, transportability and reliability of the earlier Technology Development model, while significantly reducing weight and cost.

For more than three decades, Lockheed Martin has applied its systems-integration expertise to a wide range of successful ground vehicles for U.S. and allied forces worldwide. The company’s products include the combat-proven Multiple Launch Rocket System M270-series and HIMARS mobile launchers, Havoc 8x8, Common Vehicle, Light Armored Vehicle-Command and Control, Warrior Capability Sustainment Programme, Joint Light Tactical Vehicle and pioneering unmanned platforms such as the Squad Mission Support System.

Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control is a 2012 recipient of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for performance excellence. The Malcolm Baldrige Award represents the highest honor that can be awarded to American companies for their achievements in leadership, strategic planning, customer relations, measurement, analysis, workforce excellence, operations and results.

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. --- AM General's Light Tactical Vehicle Assembly Line (LTVAL) is full of activity as the company's Blast Resistant Vehicle - Off road (BRV-O) steadily moves through the production line and on to Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) government testing.

The company's experienced workforce, many of whom work on this active line, has produced approximately 300,000 of the company's iconic High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) for all branches of the U.S. military, as well as the armed services of more than 50 other countries.

The new BRV-O represents more than a decade of AM General investment in research, development and testing for this next-generation vehicle for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps. In August 2012, the company's independent proposal for JLTV was selected for a $64.5 million Engineering, Manufacturing and Development (EMD) phase contract.

As one of three competitors, AM General is building 22 BRV-Os for delivery in August and subsequent government testing in the EMD phase. These will include a 4-seat variant Combat Tactical Vehicle that supports three different mission package configurations and a 2-seat variant Combat Support Vehicle that supports a utility mission package configuration for different mission roles across the full spectrum of military operations.

"We are setting the pace on integrating components, meeting timelines and other requirements and working closely with our military customer representatives daily," said AM General Vice President of Business Development and Program Management Chris Vanslager. "Light tactical vehicles are in our DNA, and it shows in the focus, excitement and pride all along the assembly line. Low risk, high quality and affordability is what our customer demands and we at AM General have more than five decades of experience and a more than 1.5 million light tactical vehicle heritage to back it up."

He noted that AM General's highly skilled workers know light military trucks from decades of experience. They actively contribute to production engineering, continuous product improvements, and what is among the highest build-quality indices in the industry. A measure of the high quality level of the product engineering and manufacturing was recently displayed when the weight of the first eight BRV-O vehicles validated the design weight.

AM General's Military Assembly Plant is dedicated to light tactical vehicles and is capable of producing different vehicles, models, configurations and paint schemes at the same time. It often has done so in manufacturing HMMWVs for U.S. and foreign military customers while earning a record of delivering reliable and versatile vehicles on time and on budget.

As the BRV-O JLTVs leave the LTVAL at the Military Assembly Plant, they will receive additional "mission packages" some provided by AM General and others as Government Furnished Equipment (GFE), to convert each base vehicle into a specific mission package configuration such as the Heavy Guns Carrier. Then each vehicle undergoes AM General break-in and shake-down testing before delivery to the military.

Over its long history, AM General has produced more than 1.5 million light tactical vehicles in defense of this country's freedom – far more than any other American company. BRV-O features a crew capsule of modular armor design currently undergoing government blast testing. The BRV-O design can be readily adapted to future changes in U.S. military missions, enemy threats and new protection technologies as they emerge. BRV-O also features AM General's lightweight, fuel efficient and high performance engine and transmission powertrain; a self-leveling suspension system; a C4ISR backbone with open-standard networked architecture and clustered super-computing power; and other advanced components.

AM General designs, engineers, manufactures, supplies and supports specialized vehicles for military and commercial customers worldwide. AM General has more than five decades of experience meeting the changing needs of the defense and automotive industries, supported by its employees at major facilities in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, and a strong supplier base that stretches across 43 states.

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Oshkosh Demos JLTV Prototypes for US DoD and Congressional Leadership

Oshkosh vehicles exhibit next-generation performance on military severe off-road track designed to represent battlefield terrain

Oshkosh Defense, a division of Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE:OSK), successfully demonstrated its Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) prototypes at an event hosted by the U.S. JLTV Joint Program Office in Quantico, VA. During the demonstration, the Oshkosh JLTV prototypes completed the military’s severe off-road track (SORT) without fail, allowing military and congressional leaders to observe and experience a new generation of light vehicle mobility and protection.

“Experience has taught us that the very nature of warfare has changed – and the JLTV program is addressing the fact that our troops need a light, protected vehicle that can perform on any number of future battlefields with unpredictable conditions and threats,” said John Bryant, senior vice president of Defense Programs for Oshkosh Defense. “The military SORT simulated difficult conditions and allowed Oshkosh to demonstrate our vehicle’s exceptional power and agility while maneuvering steep inclines, hairpin turns and rugged terrain.”

As a participant in the JLTV Engineering, Manufacturing and Development (EMD) phase, Oshkosh has completed manufacturing of its 22 JLTV prototypes – which were built on an active manufacturing line by a highly-skilled Oshkosh workforce using Lean processes and a proven quality management system. The Oshkosh JLTV prototypes, which will be delivered to the government in August, include both the 4-door multi-purpose variant and the 2-door utility variant.

“The entire Oshkosh team – from engineering to supply chain to manufacturing – is absolutely committed to the JLTV program. It was amazing to see the first JLTV prototype make its way down a warm assembly line, start right up and drive off the line – as if we’ve been making them for years,” said Bryant. “Our truck’s performance at the JLTV demonstration reflects a deep commitment to our troops and a true understanding of the critical role this vehicle will play in protecting them.”

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C'est une proposition pour JLTV-A ou ils ont réussi a casé 6 place dans leur tombereau!

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En dépit du séquestre budgétaire en cours, le programme JLTV continue :

Despite Budget Crunch, JLTV Purchase Plans Remain Unchanged

(Source: US Army; issued October 25, 2013)

WASHINGTON --- Despite budget cuts, furloughs, sequestration, continuing resolutions, ongoing changes in force structure, and a government shutdown, both the Army and Marine Corps are committed to buying the same amount of Joint Light Tactical Vehicles they initially set out to purchase.

The JLTV is designed to replace the Humvee, and to bring additional capability to both the Army and the Marine Corps. It is lighter and more mobile than the mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle, but it also provides more survivability than the Humvee.

The Army expects to buy 49,000 of the vehicles, while the Marine Corps expects to buy 5,500.

Col. John Cavedo, manager of the Joint Program Office for the JLTV, said even as the Army changes in size due to end-strength reductions, and the force structure changes as a result, the Army will still want the same number of vehicles.

"Reductions to match the force structure would come at a reduced number of 30-year-old Humvees," he said, indicating that the Army expects to buy all 49,000 JLTVs, and will simply eliminate Humvees more quickly than expected.

Marine Corps Lt. Col. Mike Burks, deputy manager of the Joint Program Office for the JLTV said the same.

"Let me be clear on the front of Marine Corps commitment to JLTV: We are in," he said. "Right now, in the current conversation, in the context of the size the Marine Corps is looking at, 5,500 JLTVs is good enough to meet deployed commanders critical mission needs in the Marine Corps' most dangerous combat mission profiles."

There are currently three defense contractors in competition to be named manufacturer of the JLTV for the Army and Marine Corps. Those competitors are Oshkosh Defense, Lockheed Martin, and AM General. AM General manufactured the Humvee.

In August, each of the three manufacturers delivered 22 of their vehicle prototypes to the Army and Marine Corps for testing. A total of 66 vehicles in all were delivered. Today, those vehicles are spread out across multiple sites for testing.

Kevin Fahey, Program Executive Officer, Combat Support and Combat Service Support, said the JLTV program is, despite some budget issues, largely on schedule.

"Everybody has been on schedule or ahead of schedule," he said. "The perturbations we've had have all been driven by budget and continuing resolution authority. The hardest part of what we are going through is not knowing."

Fahey said that the recent government shutdowns had an unusual impact on the JLTV program. While the program had prior-year funding available to continue testing on the vehicle, the funding doesn't cover the operating costs for the sites where the testing actually occurs.

"The proving ground was basically shut down," he said. As a result, testing had to stop on the vehicles.

When the government came back on line, the testing program was not able to start back up as quickly. "Starting back up has been a very difficult proposition," Fahey said.

The stoppage of testing during the shutdown, plus the slow restart, has delayed JLTV testing somewhat, he said, but at this point it is not significant.

"We are behind our current ideal plan, but that doesn't mean we are behind our macro schedule," he said, adding that the program office is looking daily at how it can make up for that schedule slip over the course of the next nine months. "We are pretty confident we can do that."

Right now the JLTV is funded by a continuing resolution that ends in early 2014, the second quarter of the fiscal year. Fahey said the program is on track now, but definitely by the third quarter of the fiscal year, a confirmed budget decision will need to be in place.

"The JLTV is one of those programs where if we don't get a budget approved it will impact the program," he said.

Cavedo said that for now, he's operating as though funding will arrive when the CR ends, and he thinks the JLTV program will continue to stay on track.

"We are planning for success here, and we are going to keep the train on track for as long as we possibly can keep it on there," he said. "Some really hard decisions are going to have to be made in the second quarter, mid-second quarter of this (fiscal) year. And from where I sit, I certainly hope that for JLTV, the hard decision is to keep it on the tracks. But that may not be what the Army decides."

Fahey, Cavedo and Burkes spoke Oct. 22 during a press conference at the 2013 Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C.

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Un point sur les candidats à AUSA-2013 :

AM General ready to produce its Joint Light Tactical Vehicle JLTV BRV-O for US Army and Marines.

The U.S. Defense Company AM General which has manufactured more military light tactical vehicles than any other in the United States is poised to produce the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV), the next-generation Light Tactical Vehicle (LTV) for Soldiers, Marines and other American service members performing their missions around the world.

AM General JLTV BRV-O at AUSA 2013, defense exhibition in Washington D.C.,United States.

AM General delivered 22 of its Blast Resistant Vehicle Off-Road™ (BRV-O™) JLTVs for the Engineering, Manufacturing and Development (EMD) phase of the program, to the United States Government in August ahead of schedule. The company manufactured the vehicles on the same Light Tactical Vehicle Assembly Line that has turned out approximately 300,000 High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs) for all branches of the U.S. military and more than 50 international customers.

“We are unique in the JLTV program with our fully tooled production line; long experience in high- quality, lean manufacturing; successful track record of on-time and at-cost delivery; highly skilled workforce, and network of 1,700 suppliers across 43 states,” said AM General Vice President Business Development and Program Management Chris Vanslager. “Low-risk, high-quality and affordability is what our customer requires, and we at AM General, have more than five decades of experience and the heritage of manufacturing light tactical vehicles to deliver those requirements to the men and women of the armed services.”

The company’s LTV Assembly Line has the flexibility and tooling to economically and efficiently produce the BRV-O as well as HMMWV simultaneously, in multiple variants and volumes, to meet the needs of military customers. Besides its dedicated Military Assembly Plant in Mishawaka, Ind., AM General’s manufacturing capability is supported by its Engineering and Product Development Center in Livonia, Mich., its engine manufacturing plant in Franklin, Ohio, its logistics support operations stretching from Indiana and around the globe, and its extensive LTV testing and training facilities in the South Bend, Ind. area.

“We alone bring to the table everything needed for successful, affordable and flexible manufacturing and life-cycle support to meet the needs of U.S. and international armed forces for decades into the future,” said Vanslager.

AM General has more than 50 years of experience building more than 1.5 million tactical wheeled vehicles, in the process earning recognition from the U.S. Army, Defense Logistics Agency, and other customer organizations for outstanding production, service parts and training contributions.

Tuesday, October 22, 2013 09:53 PM

Lockheed Martin presents the latest version of JLTV Joint Light Tactical Vehicle at AUSA 2013.

At AUSA 2013, Lockheed Martin presents the latest version of the JLTV (Joint Light Tactical Vehicle) which was just delivered to the U.S. Army and Marine Corps on Aug. 14, 2013 for 14 months of test and evaluation. A production award is expected in late fiscal 2015 for approximately 50,000 JLTVs for the Army, with their Marine Corps partners purchasing another 5,500 vehicles.

The latest version of the Lockheed Martin JLTV (Joint Light Tactical Vehicle)

The primary goal of Lockheed Martin JLTV is to provide a Family of Vehicles (FOV), with companion trailers, that are capable of performing multiple mission roles designed to provide protected, sustained and networked mobility for personnel and payloads across the full range of military operations.

Designed as a more capable and survivable replacement for many of the current Army and Marine Corps HMMWV “Humvees,” the Lockheed Martin JLTV is systems engineered to return crucial protection, mobility and transportability to Soldiers and Marines. In refining its JLTV EMD design, the Lockheed Martin team optimized a vehicle already proven in testing during the program’s previous Technology Development phase. The result is a lighter, more blast-resistant and more agile JLTV that maintains the proven force protection, mobility, transportability and reliability of the earlier model, while significantly reducing weight and cost.

BAE Systems is responsible for providing the JLTV's armored cabs and the vehicle’s innovative geometrically enhanced protection system, a design that enables levels of blast protection never before achieved in this vehicle class.

Designed-in reliability and supportability are hallmarks of the Lockheed Martin JLTV, with the result being reduced life-cycle costs. The vehicles showed exceptional reliability and superior fuel efficiency in more than 180,000 miles of testing.

The JLTV program creates a family of vehicles consisting of the general purpose (4-door) and utility (2 door) variants, which can be enhanced with mission kits. The variants share a high degree of commonality which reduces operations and support costs, and enhances training.

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• quelqu'un a t'il  des vues intérieures? notamment pour connaitre les positions des pax en version 6 places.

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Il ne doit y en avoir beaucoup.

Audit du programme :

Pentagon Inspector General to Audit JLTV

By Brendan McGarry Monday, October 28th, 2013 5:08 pm

The U.S. Defense Department’s inspector general over the next year will audit the program developing a replacement to the iconic Humvee.

The so-called Joint Light Tactical Vehicle was among nearly a dozen weapons acquisition programs and other projects identified in the inspector general’s “audit plan” for fiscal 2014, which began Oct. 1.

The objective is to determine whether the Army and Marine Corps office in Warren, Mich., overseeing the effort “is effectively managing and developing the Joint Light Tactical Vehicles for the low-rate initial production phase of the acquisition process,” according to the document released this month.

The services want to buy a total of almost 55,000 of the vehicles to replace about a third of the fleet of Humvees, a light-duty utility truck that entered military service in 1985 and whose vulnerability to roadside blasts was exposed during the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Program managers last week said they still plan to purchase the total number of vehicles, including about 49,000 for the Army and about 5,500 for the Marine Corps, despite the prospect of ongoing budget cuts.

The forthcoming audit, however, may give more ammunition to critics of the program.

The Pentagon has already estimated the effort to develop and build the vehicles at almost $23 billion, or about $400,000 per truck, according to a June report from the Congressional Research Service. Leaders have maintained each vehicle will cost about $250,000.

“As budgets come under increasing scrutiny with the current fiscal constraints, the Department will be challenged to evaluate the usefulness of all programs,” the audit plan states.

“We will focus on the Department’s efforts to improve acquisition by focusing oversight on procurement quantities, effectiveness in preparing the program for the next major milestone decision, adequacy of testing and evaluation, and the meeting of user needs,” it states.

Lockheed Martin Corp., based in Bethesda, Md.; Oshkosh Corp., based in Oshkosh, Wis.; and AM General LLC, based in South Bend, Ind., won contracts to develop JLTV prototypes.

Lockheed, the world’s largest defense contractor, recently began running radio advertisements for the program in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan region.

Other acquisition efforts targeted for audits include the Army’s Joint Tactical Radio System’s Handheld, Manpack and Small Form Fit, the Army’s OH-58F Kiowa Warrior Cockpit and Sensor Upgrade, the Air Force’s Global Positioning System Ground Control Segment, the Air Force’s MQ-9 Reaper drone, the Navy’s Global Positioning System-based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Service and the Navy’s Ohio-Class Replacement Submarine, according to the report.

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Oshkosh Defense’s JLTV Solution Completes “Net-Ready” Testing

(Source: Oshkosh Defense; issued July 9, 2014)

OSHKOSH, Wis. --- Oshkosh Defense, a division of Oshkosh Corporation (OSK), reached a milestone in the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD's) Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program by completing Net-Ready testing with the Oshkosh Light Combat Tactical All-Terrain Vehicle (L-ATV).

“We are pleased that our JLTV has demonstrated its capability to transfer critical data from onboard systems to external networks during this testing and evaluation process,” said U.S. Marine Corps Colonel (Retired), John Bryant, senior vice president, Defense Programs for Oshkosh Defense. “This is another important milestone in what has been an exemplary procurement program by the DoD, which will provide the protection and mobility our service men and women need for future missions.”

A core element in developing the next-generation light vehicle is fully supporting the execution of operational activities and information exchanges identified in DoD Enterprise Architecture, while satisfying the JLTV’s technical requirements for the transition to Net-Centric military operations. Oshkosh recently completed this testing at the Electronic Proving Grounds at Fort Huachuca, Arizona – the United States Army's developmental test center for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber and Intelligence (C5I) capabilities.

Oshkosh Defense has successfully completed every milestone to date throughout the JLTV program’s Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase, including the design understanding review, manufacturing readiness review and on-time delivery of 22 prototype vehicles 12 months after the start of the EMD phase. As an Original Equipment Manufacturer, Oshkosh has an in-house team of C4ISR experts who designed the C4ISR solution for the fully integrated JLTV EMD prototype vehicles it has delivered for the program.

Oshkosh is providing vehicle training and support throughout the 14 months of robust military testing during the EMD phase. The JLTV is expected to fill a significant capability gap that exists between larger MRAP vehicles and the aging High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) fleet.

Leveraging a 97-year history of innovation, Oshkosh has developed a state-of-the-art vehicle that redefines protection, extreme off-road mobility and the very meaning of the term “mission-ready.”

Oshkosh Defense is a leading provider of tactical wheeled vehicles and life cycle sustainment services. For more than 90 years, Oshkosh has been mobilizing military and security forces around the globe by offering a full portfolio of heavy, medium, light and highly protected military vehicles to support our customers’ missions.

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AM General BRV-O JLTV completes engineering manufacturing and development offroad testing

• BRV-O team focuses on upcoming Limited User Testing and Proposal Submission

AM General today announced that its entrant into the U.S. Government's Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) competition, the Blast Resistant Vehicle - Offroad (BRV-O) has completed months of rugged off-road testing during the competition's Engineering, Manufacturing and Development (EMD) phase.

AM General has successfully completed every milestone to date throughout the JLTV program's EMD phase, including the design understanding review, manufacturing readiness assessment and ahead of schedule delivery of 22 BRV-Os to the U.S. Government for EMD testing.

"As the most experienced Light Tactical Vehicle company in the world, having designed, tested, built and fielded more than 1.5 million vehicles, we are very pleased with BRV-O's performance to date and EMD testing was very much in line with our projections," said AM General Vice President of Business Development and Program Management Chris Vanslager. "We look forward to getting this modern and innovative vehicle that provides unmatched situational awareness, protection, performance and payload at an affordable price into the hands of our customers as soon as possible. Light tactical vehicles are in our DNA and we are setting the pace on integrating components, meeting timelines and other requirements and working closely with our military customer representatives daily."

Oshkosh L-ATV Successfully Completes 200,000 Miles for JLTV EMD

Oshkosh Defense, an Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE: OSK) company, announced today it has successfully completed 200,000 miles and all requirements for Reliability, Availability, Maintainability (RAM) testing for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) contract. Concurrently, Oshkosh received the draft Request for Proposal (RFP) for the JLTV Production contract, which is a limited competition.

During the JLTV EMD contract, the Oshkosh Light Combat Tactical All-Terrain Vehicle (L-ATV) successfully completed every program milestone to date – the latest of which is RAM testing. The company began the EMD phase by delivering 22 fully integrated JLTV prototypes on time to the Government in August 2013. The EMD phase includes 14 months of robust military testing, training and support through November 2014.

“The nature of warfare has changed, and future battlefields will bring an unpredictable combination of terrain, tactics and threats,” said U.S. Army Major General (Retired), John Urias, Oshkosh Corporation executive vice president and president, Oshkosh Defense. “The JLTV program fills a critical capability gap between the HMMWV and larger MRAP vehicles in service today. The Oshkosh JLTV solution will equip our troops with a new generation of off-road mobility and protection they need to accomplish their missions.”

In preparation for the Production phase, the company produced its JLTV EMD prototypes on an active and proven production line, alongside its MRAP All-Terrain Vehicle (M-ATV), Family of Heavy Tactical Vehicles (FHTV), Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) and other platforms. Using lean processes, flexible assembly lines and rigorous quality checks, Oshkosh has a history of delivering tactical wheeled vehicles on schedule and with industry-leading quality.

“Oshkosh is prepared to begin JLTV low rate initial production immediately should the company be awarded the production contract,” said Urias. “We believe that no other light tactical vehicle platform offers a comparable combination of proven technology, systems integration and manufacturing readiness at an affordable cost.”

Source : Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE: OSK)

Published on ASDNews: Jul 17, 2014

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Army to start next JLTV competition this fall

By Brendan McGarry Thursday, September 25th, 2014 6:13 pm

Truck-maker Oshkosh Corp. and Humvee-maker AM General LLC both brought prototypes of their new light-duty tactical trucks to this year’s Modern Day Marine expo.

Lockheed Martin Corp. settled for displaying a miniature model of its offering for the Army and Marine Corp.‘s Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program.

The defense contractors are eagerly awaiting the next phase of the acquisition effort to replace about a third of the iconic Humvee fleet with tougher, faster vehicles. The Army plans to begin the latest competition before the end of the year, possibly in mid-November, with a request for proposals from firms interested in bidding for production contracts.

The service next summer, possibly in July, plans to pick a winner — or winners — to begin building the trucks, which are designed to be lightweight like Humvees, but more survivable, like the blast-resistant trucks known as Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, or MRAPs, built for the U.S.-led ground wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Over the past decade, the Pentagon spent nearly $50 billion buying some 25,000 MRAPs as part of a rapid-acquisition effort spearheaded by then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates to better protect troops from roadside bombs. Thousands of the vehicles were subsequently scrapped, mothballed or handed down to local police departments because the military never intended them to be a permanent part of the tactical wheeled vehicle fleet.

Now, the Army and Marine Corps are trying to incorporate some of the lessons learned from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan into a replacement for the Humvee.

Each of the companies has delivered 22 JLTV prototypes to the Army for testing under engineering and manufacturing development agreements signed in 2012. They’re competing against each other — and potentially eligible outside vendors — to build 17,000 of the vehicles under low-rate initial production contracts expected to be signed in summer 2015.

Overall, the Army aims to purchase about 49,000 of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, while the Marine Corps plans to acquire about 5,500 of the trucks. Both services have pledged their commitment to the program despite facing automatic budget cuts known as sequestration.

The Pentagon has estimated the effort to develop and build the vehicles at almost $23 billion, or about $400,000 per truck, according to a 2013 report from the Congressional Research Service. Leaders have maintained each vehicle will cost about $250,000.

The Defense Department requested about $230 million for the acquisition effort in fiscal 2015, which begins Oct. 1, for a total of 183 vehicles, including 176 for the Army and seven for the Marine Corps, according to budget documents.

At the expo this week at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Lockheed touted its design, which features a Cummins Inc. four-cylinder engine that gets as many as 14 miles per gallon — “probably better than some of the SUVs in the parking lot today,” Scott Greene, vice president of ground vehicles at Lockheed, said during a briefing with reporters.

The system doesn’t have an alternator and instead relies on an in-line power generator capable of producing 24 kilowatts of electricity, Greene said. The generator can be scaled up to produce as much as 75 kilowatts for battlefield needs, he added.

Lockheed partnered on the program with BAE Systems, maker of the M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, Caiman MRAP and other combat vehicles, which built a protection system that includes an enhanced hull, high ground clearance and blast-mitigating seats.

“We’re going to offer the greatest level of survivability,” John Stanek, JLTV program director at BAE Systems Inc., said during the briefing.

AM General built its JLTV prototypes, known as the Blast-Resistant Vehicle — Off-road, or BRV-O, on the same production line it uses for the latest Humvees going to the Army National Guard and international customers such as the government of Iraq.

“We’re offering an affordable, mature, very capable vehicle,” Chris Vanslager, vice president of business development and program development at AM General, said during an interview at the show.

The BRV-O uses about 30 percent of the same parts found on the Humvee, is up to 25 percent more fuel efficient than the Humvee — which gets almost 7 miles per gallon of diesel — and offers far more protection than the Humvee, with armor kits available as needed, Vanslager said.

Oshkosh’s offering is known as the Light Combat Tactical All-Terrain Vehicle, or L-ATV, which was built on the same production line as the Army’s Family of Heavy Tactical Vehicle, Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles and MRAP All-Terrain Vehicle, or M-ATV, a lighter blast-resistant truck designed for the rugged terrain of Afghanistan.

The company’s L-ATV features the company’s TAK-4i independent suspension system, Core1080 crew protection system and digitally controlled engine.

“This vehicle … is ready for production right now,” John Bryant, senior vice president of domestic programs at Oshkosh, said in an interview.

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Les JLTV ralentiraient les assauts amphibie :

Pentagon testers: JLTV hinders marine amphibious assault operations

Daniel Wasserbly, Washington, DC - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly

21 January 2015

A single builder for the JLTV programme is expected to be selected by the end of fiscal year 2015. AM General, Lockheed Martin, and Oshkosh (pictured) are competing. Source: IHS/Daniel Wasserbly

Key Points

•The size and deployability of JLTVs is questioned by the Pentagon's director of operational test and evaluation

•Testers found that USMC amphibious assaults would suffer from the added time needed to deploy JLTVs

Pentagon testers have found that Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) prototypes are slow to deploy from ship to shore and, therefore, leaves US Marine Corps (USMC) units "vulnerable to threats".

The Director of Operational Test and Evaluation annual report on the previous year's testing, released on 20 January, found that during developmental test/operational test (DT/OT) events, USMC units with JLTVs were able to execute amphibious assault missions, but were hampered by the new trucks' lack of deployability.

"The JLTVs have large visual signature and their slow manoeuvre time from ship to shore prevents a Marine Expeditionary Unit from executing assault missions with tactical surprise, increases the time to close combat power ashore, and renders the unit vulnerable to threats," the report said.

"Testing showed that JLTVs are slower to load, prepare for fording, and transition to manoeuvre ashore than HMMWV [Humvees]" that they are meant to replace, the document said. Testers explained that the issues were caused by the JLTV's overall larger size (vehicle suspensions are dropped so they can better fit in amphibious ships) and "delays that occur while awaiting suspension mode, and other vehicle adjustments" such as adjusting tyre pressure.

A spokesman for the Army Program Executive Office for Combat Support & Combat Service Support declined to comment on whether the office has developed a plan to address deficiencies outlined in the report.

The DT/OT events occurred in April 2014, with US Army and USMC units using CH-47F Chinook and CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters for an air assault mission, and a USMC unit using Landing Craft Utility vessels for amphibious assault missions.

Testers found that units with JLTVs - and organic armour assets - can execute air assault missions.

However, "the three JLTV contractor vehicles were more difficult to rig, de-rig, and load weapons due to vehicle height and lack of vehicle handholds and footholds than HMMWV," the report said. "They had limited space to carry crew, mission essential equipment, weapons, and their sustainment load because of the small interior compartment."

The DT/OT revealed that JLTVs have better manoeuvrability in soft soil and better fording capability than legacy Humvees, but crew visibility is lower "because of smaller windows, placement of mission equipment, and positioning of window panels".

ANALYSIS

It is no surprise that JLTVs have a larger 'visual signature' than the smaller Humvee; they are indeed bigger vehicles and ride higher from the ground to protect against underbelly mine blasts.

However, it is notable that this larger size affects the speed at which marines can prepare the vehicles for battle (due to time spent raising the suspension, inflating tyres, and climbing to load equipment).

The USMC has at times appeared a reluctant customer for the JLTV as the corps is trying to get lighter and more mobile after years spent fighting land wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with heavier platforms. Marine planners had accepted the size and weight trade-off to gain more protection, but it will be interesting to see if the deployability issue can be resolved or be justified.

Either way, the question must be answered soon because the USMC's planned 5,500 JLTVs are to be bought early in the production run and an initial operating capability is scheduled for fiscal year 2018.

Modifié le 26 août 2015 par Serge

[Serge]

AM General Submits Final JLTV Proposal

SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- AM General, the most experienced Light Tactical Vehicle producer in the world, today submitted the final proposal for its Blast Resistant Vehicle-Offroad (BRV-O®) entrant into the U.S. Government's Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program. AM General's proposal reflects the company's industry leading Systems Engineering approach, and its unmatched production and light tactical vehicle program management expertise, delivering the best value and lowest risk for the JLTV program. The BRV-O provides the most operational and protection capability to address current and future needs of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps.

"The BRV-O is a combat system designed and built with a total focus on Warfighter needs, by a team whose sole calling is fielding the world's best light tactical vehicles. The BRV-O JLTV proposal reflects AM General's dedication to excellence and our steadfast determination to be the most reliable, trusted partner for the United States government," said AM General President and CEO, Charlie Hall. "AM General has the experience, focus, innovation and investment to give Soldiers and Marines the advantage in a dangerous and constantly changing world. As President and CEO of AM General, I am proud to personally lead the team in these efforts, working with our committed management, engineers and our UAW represented employees."

AM General's BRV-O exhibited outstanding performance during the testing process as it successfully completed and/or exceeded every milestone throughout the JLTV program's recent Engineering, Manufacturing and Development phase where vehicles were subjected to extensive off-road and survivability testing.

The BRV-O's design is adaptable and flexible in anticipation of future requirements. It can negotiate open terrain and maneuver effectively in urban environments, and its open-architecture C4ISR capability is already organic to and tested in the vehicle to provide every crewmember connectivity in joint and coalition operations.

The BRV-O's crew capsule and modular armor successfully completed, and in important respects exceeded, all requirements for force protection in blast tests. Operationally, if armor is damaged in future combat situations, its separate components can be readily replaced while remaining in the area of operation. This will dramatically improve readiness and further reduce the BRV-O's already efficient and low life-cycle support cost profile.

The BRV-O is based on more than a decade of AM General's own investments in research, development and testing for a highly mobile and versatile next-generation light tactical military vehicle and reflects the culmination of more than 50 years of experience in the design, development and production of more than 1.5 million tactical vehicles.

AM General designs, engineers, manufactures, supplies and supports specialized vehicles for commercial and military customers. AM General has more than five decades of experience meeting the changing needs of the defense and automotive industries, supported by its employees at major facilities in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, and a strong supplier base that stretches across 43 states.

Source : AM General

Published on ASDNews: Feb 11,

[Serge]

Ça y est, le JLTV sera produit par Oshkosh :

Oshkosh Wins $30 Billion Army Contract Battle to Replace Humvee

August 25, 2015 By Marcus Weisgerber Patrick Tucker

The Wisconsin truck-maker has won the coveted megacontract to replace most of the Army’s iconic Humvees.

Oshkosh won the Pentagon’s $30 billion sweepstakes to replace the U.S. Army’s Humvee with up to 55,000 new Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, or JLTVs, over the next 25 years, service officials said.

The Army awarded a $6.7 billion contract Tuesday to Oshkosh for an initial batch of 17,000 vehicles for the Army and Marine Corps. Production will begin in the first quarter of fiscal 2016, according to an Army release, with a later decision on the full scale of production to come in 2018, the year the vehicles are expected to be ready for battle.

“The…contract award moves an important capability closer to our soldiers and Marines and represents an important success for the acquisition community,” said Scott Davis, the Army program executive officer for combat support and combat service support, at the Pentagon shortly after the announcement.

The Wisconsin-based defense firm’s selection follows a 14-month trial of prototypes from Oshkosh and losing bidders AM General and Lockheed Martin. Years of difficult combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, full of harsh terrain and roadside bombs, compelled the Army to push for an armored vehicle to replace the Humvee. They sought a truck that was tougher and better-armored in critical spots, but also agile and capable of off-road maneuvering.

The JLTV is envisioned to get back the vehicle performance lost when the Army and Marine Corps had to up armor Humvees to protect troops from an abundance of improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, in Iraq and Afghanistan, said Col. John Cavedo, the former project manager, during Tuesday’s Pentagon briefing.

The extra weight from the armor prevented the Army from using them in battle how they were originally pictured, Cavedo said. “This is going to allow us to operate the way we had envisioned our light tactical vehicles being able to operate with greater flexibility and … gaining back an expeditionary capability that we lost” when ground forces bought large and heavy MRAPs.

The JLTV fills a hole in the Army and Marine Corps vehicle fleets. “The gap in today’s capabilities means that commanders often have to choose between payload, performance and protection,” Davis said. The truck is the first built for networked military operations. And a CH-47 Chinook or CH-53 heavy-lift helicopter will be able to carry the JLTV, unlike the heavier MRAP.

Army officials would not say why they chose Oshkosh over its competition because the losing bidder can contest the contract in the coming weeks. They did say that average price of each vehicle, fully loaded with battle equipment, would cost less than $399,000.

John Bryant, senior vice president for defense programs for Oshkosh Defense, sat down with Defense One reporters last fall to describe his company’s efforts to win the contract. “The Humvee was a magnificent vehicle in its day,” he said, “But when armor was added to the Humvee it became too heavy for the suspension system, too heavy for the drive train and lost all of its mobility. With all that armor there was no room to add the underbody protection, which was critical. So the Humvee wound up being very heavy, very well protected from the sides with almost none of the protection underneath and almost none of the off-road mobility that was the reason the U.S. purchased the Humvee in the first place,” he said.

The design that Oshkosh submitted was a smaller version of its M-ATV vehicle, but about one third smaller. Bryant was eager to highlight the fact that there were already 9,000 M-ATVs in service and many were already doing the work of the JLTV. “Our M-ATV is the only platform in theater, right now, performing the JLTV mission,” he said. “If you took our JLTV and put it side by side our M-ATV, across rough terrain, our JLTV will go 70 percent faster than the best vehicle out there, which happens to be ours.”

That speed was key to what Bryant called survivability. “It means you can get to the fight, you can get out of trouble, you can get to fight and come home safely,” said Bryant.

The only perfect strategy for not experiencing casualties when Humvees encounter IEDs is to not have humans in the Humvees. Oshkosh markets an autonomous vehicle kit called the TerraMax that relies on light detection and ranging as well as radar for autonomous robot steering (that doesn’t need satellite communications.)

The Oshkosh M-ATV has a unique suspension, called TAK-4i, giving higher ground clearance and a smoother ride on rugged terrain. Company officials have touted the suspension throughout the competition. Even though their vehicle has been on display at many trade shows, the underbelly of the truck had been blocked out by black tarp so competitors could not steal their what they consider the vehicle’s secret sauce.

Oshkosh could easily convert their JLTV design into a self-driving variant, said Bryant. “The Oshkosh TerraMax is designed to be integrated onto any tactical wheeled vehicle that the customer desires. We’ve integrated it and demonstrated it on our medium tactical vehicle replacement,” he said. “We can operate our TerraMax fully autonomously where you program it and it just goes; we can have it where one operator can loosely control multiple vehicles; we can do follow the leader.”

A team from Stanford first demonstrated autonomous driving more than ten years ago at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [second] Grand Challenge event. Slowly but surely, self-driving trucks are becoming part of the Army’s future plans. Speaking at a National Defense Industry Association event in Virginia on Tuesday, Army Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins described robot steering for tactical vehicles as having “advantages that would provide additional protection to forces, or relief, or allow other soldiers to do other things. That’s a key technology as part of the [Force 2025 and Beyond] effort.”

Of course, if you want your truck to also take out enemies, or bring troops to the front lines capable of doing so, that’s a different challenge, and not one that the Army has any interest in at the moment, said Bryant. “It’s one thing to get the customer to accept a vehicle with no people in it driving around. That was a step the customer had to take. It’s another huge step to have the customer accept a huge vehicle, with no people in it, driving around shooting,” he added. “But it’s not really that hard to do. It’s harder to make the vehicle operate than make the weapons system operate on the vehicle.”

Modifié le 26 août 2015 par Serge

[Fusilier]

Il a de la gueule  ^-^

En tout cas, ça montre que le concept du Sherpa n'est si con que ça...

[xav]

Bof

Oshkosh L-ATV Tactical Vehicle Selected to Replace U.S. Army & Marine Corps HMMWV Fleet

 

The U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC) has awarded Oshkosh Defense, LLC, an Oshkosh Corporation company, a $6.7 billion firm fixed price production contract to manufacture the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV).  The JLTV program fills a critical capability gap for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps by replacing a large portion of the legacy HMMWV fleet with a light tactical vehicle with far superior protection and off-road mobility.  During the contract, which includes both Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) and Full Rate Production (FRP), Oshkosh expects to deliver approximately 17,000 vehicles and sustainment services.

http://www.armyrecognition.com/august_2015_global_defense_security_news_uk/oshkosh_l-atv_tactical_vehicle_selected_to_replace_u.s._army_marine_corps_hmmwv_fleet.html

Donc le remplaçant HMMWV sera en gros un M-ATV MRAP modifié.

Je voyais pourtant Lockheed/BAE gagner... le seul des 3 à être parti d'une feuille blanche.

Modifié le 26 août 2015 par xav

[Serge]

Justement, partir de quelque chose de connu peut limiter les risques.

[Philippe Top-Force]

Le Pentagone commande à Oshkosh un successeur pour le Humvee, pour 6,7 milliards de dollars http://t.co/6Tjma7Az1V

— Les Echos (@LesEchos)

August 26, 2015

Oshkosh Defense wins coveted JLTV programme http://t.co/si1Ohp7wuh pic.twitter.com/uI9MXp1FvD

— IHS4Defense Security (@IHS4DefRiskSec)

August 26, 2015

Oshkosh Defense selected by #Pentagon to build #Humvee successor http://t.co/4MH2TV1eoO pic.twitter.com/P4Mzr3CeII

— Vincent Lamigeon (@VincentLamigeon)

August 26, 2015

[g4lly]

Un camion de 14T pour transporter 5 gaziers ... :lol:

 

Faut savoir qu'a la base le Humwee dans ses version "up armored" récente allait chercher dans les 5t en ordre de combat.

[Sovngard]

Il ressemblera à quoi ?


Moi j'aimais bien le BRV-O de chez AM General.

[Serge]

Il ressemble aux photos.

Son ancien nom est le L-ATV

Un camion de 14T pour transporter 5 gaziers ... :lol:

 

Faut savoir qu'a la base le Humwee dans ses version "up armored" récente allait chercher dans les 5t en ordre de combat.

Il ne fait pas 15t.

[Berezech]

Il ressemble aux photos.

Son ancien nom est le L-ATV

Il ne fait pas 15t.

14 000 lb, soit 6,4 T

C'est déjà monstrueux pour une jeep blindée (le VBL par ex est à 3,8T), j'ose pas imaginer la conso au kilomètre.

4 passagers + 1600 kg d'emport ou en version support au combat 2 passagers + 2400 kg. Un niveau de protection équivalent à celui d'un MRAP pour 1/3 du poids.

Modifié le 26 août 2015 par Berezech

[Serge]

La contrainte de masse du JLTV est de ne pas dépasser 9,5t.

A savoir que, pour résister à un IED, il faut s'approcher des 10t. Non pour résister à la perforation, on y arrive avant, mais pour limiter les risques de retournement. Préserver l'intégrité de l'habitacle est un minimum mais à cela il faut réduire les effets d'accident de la route qui existent avec les IED.

[g4lly]

Pourtant le le MATV faisait 14T !!! il ont enlevé quoi pour l'amener a 6.4T!!!

 

Plus précisement le MATV faisait 12T a vide, et 14T en charge.

 

Le LATV serait sensé faire 6.4T a vide ... ca me semble assez étonnant.

[Serge]

Il est plus compact, plus bas.

De plus, le niveau de protection du JLTV est en fait moindre.