{"id":14673,"date":"2019-03-27T17:27:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T17:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/03\/27\/next-gen-combat-vehicle-competition-to-open-up-soon\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:28:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:28:53","slug":"next-gen-combat-vehicle-competition-to-open-up-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/digital-show-dailies\/global-force-symposium\/2019\/03\/27\/next-gen-combat-vehicle-competition-to-open-up-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Where does the next-gen combat vehicle competition stand? We asked the head of the effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-smg-jwplayer-video\"><atype-video-jwplayer nostick=\"true\" playlisturl=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/v2\/playlists\/fCzRqMW8?tags=cf375402-9723-4a1f-8d23-df03a486fb9c\" poster=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/video-poster-cf375402-9723-4a1f-8d23-df03a486fb9c.jpg\" aspectratio=\"16 \/ 9\" mute autostart=\"false\"><\/atype-video-jwplayer><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">From doubling the firepower of the gun to vastly improved sensors&#8211;the Army is on the hunt for a Bradley Fighting Vehicle replacement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HUNTSVILLE, Ala. \u2014 The U.S. Army expects to launch a competition for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2018\/10\/07\/new-next-gen-combat-vehicle-outfit-takes-on-light-tank-and-personnel-carrier\/\" target=\"_blank\">next-generation combat vehicle<\/a> by issuing a request for proposals by the end of the week, Brig. 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Ross Coffman, who is in charge of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2018\/02\/15\/next-gen-combat-vehicle-prototyping-to-be-accelerated\/\" target=\"_blank\"> NGCV modernization<\/a>, told Defense News in an interview ahead of the Association of the U.S. Army\u2019s Global Force Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NGCV Cross-Functional Team, which serves under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2018\/09\/14\/will-army-futures-command-work-house-lawmakers-skeptical-but-hopeful\/\" target=_blank>Army Futures Command<\/a>, is tasked with developing a fleet of modern combat vehicles \u2014 both manned and unmanned \u2014 and it put together requirements in less than a year to start a competitive process to procure an optionally manned fighting vehicle, or OMFV, in 2026 to replace the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Replacing the Bradley fleet is the NGCV CFT\u2019s top priority, Coffman said in an interview with Defense News last fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa-digital-show-dailies\/2018\/10\/08\/replacing-the-bradley-is-the-top-priority-for-the-armys-next-gen-combat-vehicle-modernization-team\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AUSA-Bradley-3-web.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Replacing the Bradley is the top priority for the Army\u2019s next-gen combat vehicle modernization team<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The modernization team tasked with advancing the Army\u2019s next-generation combat vehicles is focused, as its top priority, on replacing the Bradley Fighting Vehicle with an Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The OMFV is meant to \u201cprovide options to commanders in combat, so it\u2019s a decision to, manned or unmanned, gain contact with the enemy, and that can be visual or through firepower, and it actually provides options to commanders so that they can use the best way to accomplish their mission,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After working with industry through countless engagements and testing several draft RFPs with ambitious requirements, Coffman believes the Army has both the threshold requirements for the vehicle as well as the right objective requirements as the service heads toward the release of the final RFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe put out a very aggressive draft RFP,\u201d Coffman told reporters March 27 at the Association of the U.S. Army\u2019s Global Force Symposium, because the CFT knew it was not obtainable in its entirety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The draft RFP was meant to stretch goals and objectives and to inspire feedback to ultimately write requirements that are obtainable, Coffman explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teasing out some of the requirements, Coffman said the Army\u2019s threshold requirement is to procure a vehicle with a 30mm gun with an objective requirement of 50mm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe want the 50mm,\u201d Coffman said, and industry can provide a gun that size, but since the service is moving so fast on the program, it was more realistic to shoot for a 30mm and ask industry to show a path to 50mm when responding with proposals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army absolutely has to have a forward-looking infrared, or FLIR, capability that is \u201cas good or better than what we have,\u201d Coffman added, with an objective requirement to have the next-generation of night-sight capabilities. \u201cWe want to see the enemy before they see us, and we want to be able to engage the enemy before they engage us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This means the service is asking for a second-generation FLIR capability, but would like a third-generation one as an objective requirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIndustry understands that we are moving fast,\u201d Coffman said, with a desire to get capability into the hands of soldiers as fast as possible. But \u201cthey also understand the first vehicle off the production line will have certain capabilities and, in future increments, will have increased capabilities, and so our plan to maintain currency with technology, I think, is encouraging to industry, but they also are well-aware that the timeline is fast and they have to deliver this, these vehicles with technology they have now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proposals will be due this fall and the service plans to downselect to two competitors who will build 14 prototypes. The Army will likely take about 14 months to decide which offerings will move into the prototyping phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coffman added that the Bradley has served the force well, \u201cbut it\u2019s limited, so what I\u2019m confident in is the vehicle that we are going to give our soldiers will be better than the Bradley and better than the enemy vehicles that we will engage and we will continue to push the envelope on new technologies.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut if we wait for all of those new technologies to reach a level of maturation that can be integrated into a vehicle,&#8221; he said, &#8220;we will never get started.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Army expects to launch a competition for its next-generation combat vehicle by issuing a request for proposals by the end of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":88,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[160,29,162,88,14,36],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3330],"class_list":["post-14673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-digital-show-dailies","category-digital-show-daily","category-global-force-symposium","category-land","category-newsletters"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"YIRI7PWMSNCGBLZS2S34PEQFRE","arc_canonical_url":"\/digital-show-dailies\/global-force-symposium\/2019\/03\/27\/next-gen-combat-vehicle-competition-to-open-up-soon\/","remove_feature_photo":true,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Where does the next-gen combat vehicle competition stand? 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