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unhappycamper

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Sat Oct 17, 2015, 09:49 AM Oct 2015

Oshkosh Readies To Resume JLTV: GAO Decides In December

http://breakingdefense.com/2015/10/oshkosh-readies-to-resume-jltv-gao-decides-in-december/



Oshkosh Readies To Resume JLTV: GAO Decides In December
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on October 16, 2015 at 12:29 PM

Two weeks after the Army awarded the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle contract to Oshkosh, losing bidder Lockheed Martin filed a protest. With the potentially 55,000-vehicle JLTV program on hold until late December, when the Government Accountability Office makes its ruling, Oshkosh is doing everything it legally can to get ready to resume.

The protest “is like hitting the pause button on a DVR,” said John Bryant, senior VP for defense programs at Oshkosh. “Once it’s over, they hit play, and we have to continue the program as if it never stopped.” If GAO rules that Oshkosh gets to keep the contract, the company will have to provide the government certain deliverables, such as data and models, “within days” of the decision, Bryant told me. It needs to be ready.

That’s tricky, because legally the program is frozen. “Oshkosh is currently in a stop-work on the JLTV program,” Bryant emphasized. “The government is not incurring any obligations right now.”

But, Bryant said, there are things the company is allowed to do in-house, on its own initiative, and on its own dime. Oshkosh is already working on data and initial deliverables for the government, for example. Oshkosh employees can comb through the contract to see what’s due to the government at what time, as long as they’re not actually working on the things that are due. They can make sure their multi-purpose production line — which builds everything from military vehicles to snowplows — is ready to go, as long as they’re not actually making a JLTV.

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Alternative headline: $600 grand JLTV to replace $240 grand hummer.
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Oshkosh Readies To Resume JLTV: GAO Decides In December (Original Post) unhappycamper Oct 2015 OP
Do we get any benefit with the JTLV over the Hummer for $260K? TexasProgresive Oct 2015 #1
In a word: Nope. unhappycamper Oct 2015 #2
Are these designed to chase... Blus4u Oct 2015 #3

TexasProgresive

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1. Do we get any benefit with the JTLV over the Hummer for $260K?
Sat Oct 17, 2015, 10:04 AM
Oct 2015

I notice the way the photographer framed the shot in your post that he/she wants it to appear that the JTLV can negotiate loose boulders. But the vehicle is actually on a road. Pretty slick.

From what I can see I believe my Forester or my ancient F150 could travel with the JTLV on that same road.

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