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EFV Program To Start Reliability Tests, Focus On Cost

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Thursday, August 12th, 2010

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By Emelie Rutherford As the Marine Corps prepares to begin reliability tests on new Expeditionary Fighting Vehicles, the colonel in charge said he will enhance efforts to control the vehicles' cost. The government has received five of the seven redone prototypes General Dynamics [GD] built after earlier versions of the long-delayed amphibious vehicle missed reliability goals during a 2006 operational assessment. Col. Keith Moore, the EFV program manager, told Defense Daily in an interview yesterday that as government officials have…

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