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GAO Calls For DoD To Weigh MRAPs When Crafting JLTV Plans

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Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

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By Emelie Rutherford Government auditors are calling on the Pentagon to consider current mine-resistant vehicles when crafting a strategy for future Humvee replacements. Defense-industry observers questioned in recent years whether the effort to quickly build Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles (MRAPs) and their all-terrain variants (M- ATVs) for deployed troops would conflict with the longer-term Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV) program to replace the Army and Marine Corps' Humvees. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), in a newly released report dated…

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