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BAE Systems Awarded $55.4 M U.S. Marine Corps Delivery Order for 90 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles
(YORK, Pennsylvania, February 15, 2007) -- BAE Systems has received a $55.4 million delivery order for 90 advanced tactical wheeled vehicles that will offer enhanced protection to U.S. Marines and Soldiersunder the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle program.
The 90 vehicles - 75 6x6 vehicles and 15 4x4 vehicles from the company's RG33 family of vehicles have been ordered under an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract originally awarded Jan. 26, when two 4x4 and two 6x6 vehicles were contracted for MRAP program testing. The Government may place additional delivery orders for production of up to 4,100 MRAP vehicles.
"BAE Systems has successfully completed its own blast testing of the RG33 vehicle design, and the results met or exceeded the MRAP survivability requirements in all cases," said John Swift, MRAP Program Manager for BAE Systems at its Triangle, Virginia office.
"With 90 percent commonality between our 4x4 and 6x6 vehicles in the family, and our proven leadership in developing and fielding high performance mine-hardened and mine-protected vehicles, BAE Systems' RG33 family provides a highly survivable vehicle that Marines and Soldiers urgently need today," Swift added. "All along, our team has viewed survivability as job one."
Under this current IDIQ delivery order, BAE Systems will begin delivering vehicles in March and will deliver all vehicles over the next 120 days.
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