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General Dynamics Receives $111 Million for Mine-Protected Vehicle Work
05 July 2007 17:42
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General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, has received a $111.5 million work order from Force Protection Inc. to produce 235 vehicles for the U.S. Marine Corps' Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle program.
Force Protection and General Dynamics have a partnership to share in the production and program management of the MRAP contact.
Force Protection was previously awarded a $221 million contract to produce 455 vehicles for the MRAP program. The latest MRAP delivery order purchases Force Protection's category I 4X4 and category II 6X6 Cougar vehicles.
Fabrication and assembly will be performed in Anniston and Oxford, Alabama; Charlotte, Michigan; Ladson, South Carolina; Lima, Ohio; Kings Point, North Carolina; and Sealy, Texas.