{"id":58083,"date":"2019-08-28T20:47:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T20:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/08\/28\/us-army-picks-3-teams-to-build-infantry-squad-vehicle-prototypes\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:19:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:19:46","slug":"us-army-picks-3-teams-to-build-infantry-squad-vehicle-prototypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2019\/08\/28\/us-army-picks-3-teams-to-build-infantry-squad-vehicle-prototypes\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army picks 3 teams to build Infantry Squad Vehicle prototypes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Army has picked an Oshkosh Defense and Flyer Defense LLC team, an SAIC and Polaris team, and GM Defense to competitively build Infantry Squad Vehicles intended to provide ground mobility<\/a> for infantry brigade combat teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each industrial choice was awarded an OTA, or other transaction authority, task assignment under the National Advanced Mobility Consortium to deliver and test two prototypes each, said Steve Herrick, ground mobility vehicle product lead with the Army\u2019s Program Executive Office Combat Support & Combat Service Support, in a statement sent to Defense News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OTA is a congressionally authorized contracting mechanism meant to expedite prototyping efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three received $1 million to build the vehicles and it\u2019s expected that the Army will take delivery of the prototypes on Nov. 13 at Aberdeen Test Center, Maryland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prototypes will be evaluated in various performance, operational and characteristics tests through the end of the year and will then be transported to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in January to be assessed by soldiers, Herrick said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each industrial choice is expected to simultaneously deliver information to the Army on price, production and logistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army will choose one vehicle for production in the second quarter of fiscal 2020 based on soldier feedback and response to a formal request for proposals leading to production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army Requirements Oversight Council approved an Army procurement object for 649 Infantry Squad Vehicles with an objective requirement of 2,065 ISVs in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ISV is intended to supplement and potentially replace vehicles the Army procured as version 1.1 of the Ground Mobility Vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ISV \u201cis additive\u201d to infantry brigade combat teams \u201cand currently not planned as a replacement for current vehicles in the formation,\u201d according to Herrick.<\/p>\n\n\n\t