MRAP

Vehicles Engineered For The Tough Terrain Of Afghanistan

WASHINGTON -- June 18 – The U.S. Senate late Thursday passed and now will send to the President a funding bill that reflects a push by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) to boost development of tougher and more agile armored vehicles and other equipment needed by U.S. troops in the rugged terrain of Afghanistan.    » read more »

CONTRACTS

NAVY

Force Protection Industries, Inc., Ladson, S.C., is being awarded a not to exceed $91,549,216 contract modification under previously awarded contract (M67854-06-C-5162) to acquire 151 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles and associated spares.

This action consummates a requirement under a foreign military sales order with the United Kingdom, Ministry of Defence. Work will be performed in Ladson, S.C., with the first vehicle deliveries scheduled to begin in July 2008, and work is expected to be completed Jul. 2009. Funds for this action are provided by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence and do not expire. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.    » read more »

United States Armed Services Committee Hearing

February 28, 2008 -- (As Prepared for Delivery) -- MRAP Vehicle Issue: According to recent press reports, an internal Marine Corps study found that the General in command of our Marine forces in western Iraq sent an urgent request three years ago this month for over a thousand Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles, called MRAPs. But his urgent request was apparently lost in the bureaucracy and never made it to the senior levels of the Marine Corps.    » read more »

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, 2008 – Defense Department officials’ confidence in mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles is unshaken after a deadly roadside bomb in Iraq marked the first time a U.S. servicemember was killed while traveling in one of the armored vehicles.    » read more »

22 January 2008 -- US military officials say a roadside bomb attack in Iraq on Saturday killed an American soldier - the first fatality in new armored vehicles designed to protect against such bombs.

Officials said Tuesday, the soldier was killed and three others were injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated in the Arab Jabour area south of Baghdad. The soldiers were driving a "Mine Resistant Ambush Protected" vehicle - or MRAP - which has a V-shaped hull intended to deflect roadside bomb blasts.    » read more »

12/12/2007 - WASHINGTON - The Army has not made a formal proposal to cut the number of mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles the service will buy, but officials are looking at the service’s long-term need, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said today.    » read more »

CONTRACTS

NAVY

International Military and Government LLC (IMG), Warrenville, Ill., is being awarded a $151,989,035 firm-fixed-priced modification under previously awarded contract (M67854-07-D-5032) for sustainment items for the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles. MRAP vehicles are required for the Marine Corps and other Joint Forces to increase survivability and mobility of troops operating in a hazardous fire area against known threats such as small arms fire, improvised explosive devices and other explosives.    » read more »

Bill includes funding for 15,000 MRAPs

November 9, 2007 -- Washington, DC – Legislation providing $459.3 billion in 2008 for defense programs – and $32.96 million for projects in Delaware –passed the U.S. House and Senate late yesterday.

The defense appropriations conference report (H.R. 3222), which passed the House (400-15) and was approved in the Senate by voice vote, now goes to the president for his signature.    » read more »

10/8/2007 DAVENPORT, Iowa & NEW YORK (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Alcoa announced today that the U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC) has selected the company’s North American Rolled Products business to supply a need for aluminum armor plate to support the new MRAP armored vehicle program. MRAP vehicles are designed to survive IED (improvised explosive devise) and ambush attacks.

Shipments of the aluminum plate will begin in November 2007 and run through June 2008.    » read more »

October 2, 2007 -- Washington, DC – The Senate passed legislation sponsored by U.S. Senators Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) and Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE) requiring monthly reports from the Pentagon on what is being done to protect U.S. troops against Explosively Formed Penetrators (EFPs) and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Iraq.    » read more »

Biden Amendment Providing $23.6 Billion for the Building and Deployment of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicles Passes Senate as Part of Department of Defense Authorization Bill

October 1, 2007 -- Mine Resistant Vehicles Proven to Reduce Casualties by More than 2/3rds    » read more »

Biden Amendment Provides $23.6 Billion for the Building and Deployment of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicles – Vehicles Proven to Reduce Casualties by More than 2/3rds

September 28, 2007 -- Washington, DC – Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Joseph R.    » read more »

September 19, 2007 -- Washington, DC – Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE) has reintroduced legislation which would boost funding for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles by $23.6 billion to allow the Army to replace all of its up-armored humvees with MRAPs. It also adds $1 billion to meet the increase in costs for existing Military orders for MRAPs and provides $400 million for better protection against Explosively Formed Penetrators, or EFPs.    » read more »

September 20, 2007 -- Washington, DC – Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE) and Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Kit Bond (R-MO) sent a letter today to the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps General James T. Conway, requesting protection for Mr. Franz Gayl against any adverse personnel action by his superiors.    » read more »

Sen. Biden to Secretary Gates: “While you have said the MRAP is your top priority, in a time of war, it must be more. It must be a national priority.”

September 5, 2007 -- Washington, DC – In a letter to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Joseph R. Biden, Jr.    » read more »