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WASHINGTON \u2014 The request for proposals from industry for the U.S. Army\u2019s optionally manned fighting vehicle, or OMFV,<\/a> intended to replace the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle, has hit the street and allows for greater flexibility for foreign companies to compete<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the service\u2019s second stab at holding a competition for OMFV<\/a>, the Army is driving as much flexibility as it can across the board, <\/a>from avoiding stringent requirements in favor of loose characteristics and creating a phase for industry to design concepts without much company investment that will form requirements along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army\u2019s previous attempt required the delivery of physical bid samples, which hamstrung foreign competitor Rheinmetall of Germany<\/a> and drove Bradley-maker BAE Systems to avoid the competition<\/a>. Ultimately, the service received just one bid sample from General Dynamics Land Systems, which forced the Army to rethink the effort<\/a> and come back with a new approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The OMFV competition has foreign industry jumping to join in with new and modernized platforms, and the Army appears to be ditching much of the restrictions that would typically keep them out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rheinmetall has already partnered with American firms Raytheon and Textron to solidify its participation in the competition, but many other companies are poised to submit bids to design concepts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pool needs to be deep because the Army anticipates awarding up to five contracts to design platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe challenges we\u2019ve typically had in getting foreign participation is we often have a lot of classified material that we release up front, and we have some detailed specification that has very detailed performance requirements that\u2019s classified,\u201d Brig. Gen. Glenn Dean, the new Army program executive officer for ground combat systems, said in a Dec. 18 press briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U.S. Soldiers in the 4th Battalion, 118th Infantry Regiment, 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team, provide M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle capabilities for Combined Joint Task Force- Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) eastern Syria Nov. 13, 2019. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Spc. DeAndre Pierce)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Foreign competitors \u201chave to have clearances in place to be able to take that information,\u201d Dean said. This means foreign companies must either be partnered with a prime contractor in the United States, have a subsidiary stateside, or have other clearances that take time to get through the approval process in order to exchange the classified information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working through consortiums, which the Army regularly does, also makes it hard for foreign contractors to come through the door, Dean said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time, the Army isn\u2019t working with a consortium and is using a more traditional federal acquisition regulation-based contract, according to Dean. Furthermore, he said, classified reports will not be required in order to submit a bid or receive an initial design contract award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve eliminated the limitation on primes and, because we don\u2019t have classified information we are providing at the front end, that allows us to share more broadly and gives those companies time if they\u2019re going to continue to play as lead, to establish their facilities, clearances and have the necessary structures in place to receive classified information when we get to that point,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dean expects more classified requirements to kick in toward the end of the concept design phase where requirements begin to take shape, which translates to specifications. \u201cObviously, every company is going to make their own determination about what strengths and partners may bring to the table, whether they want to come in as a sub, whether they want to be prime with a bunch of U.S. subs,\u201d Dean said, \u201cbut the response has been very promising.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also said there is strong interest from abroad. \u201cI would say that we at least heard from or have participation \u2026 from all the major companies in the West capable of doing a full combat vehicle. Companies from Israel, South Korea, Singapore, Germany, in addition to companies both you\u2019re familiar with in the U.S. who\u2019ve [supplied] combat vehicles, but also some companies that operate in the defense space but haven\u2019t traditionally been combat vehicle suppliers,\u201d he said. \u201cWe will see how many of them ultimately decide they want to throw their hat in the ring and participate. I think we\u2019ve done what we need to do to make it as open at an initial point.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources following the competition are expecting to see participation from South Korea\u2019s Hanwha, which is in a head-to-head competition in Australia with Rheinmetall to produce a new infantry fighting vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germany-based Krauss-Maffei Wegmann has also touted an infantry fighting vehicle option, most recently at the last in-person Association of the U.S. Army\u2019s annual conference in Washington, D.C., in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belgium\u2019s CMI Defense is also rumored to be forging a partnership with a U.S. prime to participate in the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that the solicitation has been posted to Beta.Sam.Gov<\/a>, companies have until April 16, 2021, to submit a conceptual bid. The Army will award contracts in July, according to Dean, which will kick off 15 months of funded work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the phase, industry will work on designs without bending metal that will inform an abbreviated capabilities development document \u2014 or an initial set of requirements. Once the design phase ends, the Army will take a pause and then open the competition back up for a more detailed design effort ahead of prototyping, where up to three bids will be selected to proceed. The detailed design phase will be executed over the course of fiscal 2023 and fiscal 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prototyping phase will begin in FY25, according to slides presented at the OMFV industry day. Vehicle testing will begin in FY26 and wrap up in FY27, with a production decision planned for the fourth quarter of FY27. Full-rate production is expected to begin in the second quarter of FY30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In parallel to the concept design phase, the Army will develop an open architecture for OMFV<\/a>. An open architecture has risen to the top of the OMFV planner\u2019s list of required capability, particularly after seeing the need to be networked with other capabilities across the battlefield and at the forward edge at Project Convergence at Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona,<\/a> over the summer. The Army will establish a voluntary consortium beginning in January 2021 that will represent industry, government and academia in order to develop such an open architecture, according to the statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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