TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT In February 2008,
the DoD realeased JLTV RFP or Request of Proposal to
defense vendors concerning the development stage
(Technology Development, TD) of the project, which was
replied to by seven companies (mainly from partnerships
of companies and it should be mentioned that during the
program, in its further stages, there were some „shifts" of
partnerships - they changed their partners, some of the
them decided to place independent offers). Companies
and partnerships were following:
• Boeing, Textron and Millenworks;
• General Dynamics and AM General (participating to-
gether as a joint-venture - General Tactical Vehicles);
• Force Protection Inc and DRS Technologies;
• BAE Systems and Navistar;
• Northrop Grumman, Oshkosh Truck and Plasan;
• Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems Land & Armaments
Global Tactical Systems, Alcoa Defense and JWF
Industries;
• Blackwater and Raytheon
In October 2008, the DoD narrowed the field of JLTV pro-
gram vendors – among the three winners with awarded
contracts (worth from $35 million to $45 million) were
Lockheed Martin with the Lockheed Martin JLTV , BAE
Systems & Navistar with the Valanx and General Tactical
Vehicles with GTV JLTV. In November, the results of the
tender were subject to a protest Northrop-Oshkosh and
Boeing-Textron-SAIC partnerships. In February 2009, the
Government Accountability Office rejected those protests
as unjustified.The development stage was expected to
last for 27 months (15 months for designing seven var-
iants of the vehicle and trailer, 12 months for testing the
vehicles and trailers by the US Army) and expected to end
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