{"id":39968,"date":"2021-04-28T14:43:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/04\/28\/point-blank-throws-hat-in-ring-to-design-us-armys-bradley-replacement\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:19:13","slug":"point-blank-throws-hat-in-ring-to-design-us-armys-bradley-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2021\/04\/28\/point-blank-throws-hat-in-ring-to-design-us-armys-bradley-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Point Blank throws hat in ring to design US Army\u2019s Bradley replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pointblankenterprises.com\/index.html\" target=_blank>Point Blank Enterprises<\/a> is the most recent nontraditional business to come out of the woodwork as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2021\/04\/15\/pencils-up-bids-are-due-for-armys-bradley-replacement-and-its-only-the-beginning\/\" target=_blank>a competitor for the U.S. Army\u2019s concept vehicle design phase <\/a>to replace the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company announced April 26 on its website that it had submitted a bid. The announcement comes almost two weeks after the Army\u2019s deadline for solicitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While other small businesses and nontraditional companies are believed to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2020\/12\/09\/us-army-launches-design-phase-for-bradley-replacement\/\" target=_blank>bid on the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle, or OMFV, program<\/a>, the only other company out in the open as a bidder is Michigan-based Mettle Ops. Defense News first reported its participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Companies like Mettle Ops and Point Blank are the underdogs, but there\u2019s room for them to play as the service plans to choose up to five teams to produce preliminary designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Big defense contractors also competing for a chance to design the platform are General Dynamics Land Systems, BAE Systems, and a Rheinmetall North America-led team of Raytheon Technologies, Textron and L3Harris. Defense News also first reported that Oshkosh Defense submitted a bid and is partnering with leading South Korean defense company Hanwha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florida-based Point Blank\u2019s executive vice president, Mark Edwards, said the company sees the Army\u2019s \u201cnon-traditional OMFV program approach as a perfect opportunity to continue to diversify [Point Blank Enterprises] by leveraging our core competencies in collaborative digital engineering design management, survivability systems engineering and forming and leading teams of some of the industry\u2019s best large and small defense companies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army completely revamped its approach after its first attempt to hold an OMFV competition ended with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2019\/10\/01\/pencils-down-bids-are-in-for-armys-bradley-fighting-vehicle-replacement\/\" target=_blank>only one bid sample from GDLS in October 2019.<\/a> The only other entry, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2019\/10\/04\/lynx-41-disqualified-from-bradley-replacement-competition\/\" target=_blank>Lynx 41 from a Rheinmetall and Raytheon team<\/a>, was disqualified because it wasn\u2019t delivered to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, on time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Incumbent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2019\/06\/10\/major-combat-vehicle-player-wont-participate-in-us-armys-optionally-manned-fighting-vehicle-competition\/\" target=_blank>BAE Systems bowed out months before<\/a> the deadline over concerns related to the Army\u2019s ambitious schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead of moving forward with just one option, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2020\/01\/16\/army-takes-step-back-on-bradley-replacement-prototyping-effort\/\" target=_blank>Army canceled its OMFV competition<\/a> and took a step back to come up with a plan that would better foster a robust competition over a more reasonable timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army not only dropped the plan to require a physical bid sample <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2020\/07\/17\/army-drops-draft-rfp-for-bradley-replacement\/\" target=_blank>as part of its reboot<\/a>; it instead mapped out a five-phased effort that begins with an initial design phase, then moves into a detailed design phase, followed by prototyping, testing and production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those designs will inform the abbreviated-concept development document expected to be published in the first quarter of fiscal 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Point Blank is working directly with Keshik Mobile Power Systems, according to Edwards, to form an engineering and manufacturing design team that includes other \u201clarge, experienced defense companies and a large group of innovative small businesses with advanced technologies that may not have had the chance to participate if not for this unique Army program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Point Blank features roughly 48 years of experience in developing body armor, according to its website, but also touts survivability solutions such as advanced, lightweight armor across platforms from ships to helicopters to vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe team\u2019s concept design will help fully inform the U.S. Army of what is possible today for the next generation fighting vehicle with a truly modular and technology-agnostic open systems approach for power, information, and physical architectures,\u201d Frank Jones, Keshik\u2019s chief technology officer, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe OMFV design concept [Point Blank Enterprises] has proposed will fully enable the Army to rapidly adapt and scale the platform to emerging threats, changing missions, embedding the ability to integrate the never ceasing evolution of new defense technologies as they become available,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keshik plans to \u201caugment the capabilities of future warfighters with a transformational fighting vehicle platform that leverages robust mobility and agility through a distributed redundant hybrid electric drive train, best-in-class survivability, unprecedented exportable electric power and scalability for maturing cross domain operational flexibility in real time,\u201d company CEO James Blackburn said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Point Blank\u2019s key brands include Point Blank Body Armor, Protective Apparel Corporation of America, Protective Products, PARACLETE, The Protective Group, Advanced Technology Group, First Tactical, and Gould &amp; Goodrich. 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