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GD Wins Army’s Mobile Protected Firepower Contract, Receives $1.14 Billion Production Deal

GD Wins Army’s Mobile Protected Firepower Contract, Receives $1.14 Billion Production Deal
General Dynamics Land Systems' Mobile Protected Firepower light tank. Photo: General Dynamics.

General Dynamics Land Systems [GD] has won the Army’s Mobile Protected Firepower program, receiving a $1.14 billion contract covering delivery of up to 96 vehicles under low-rate initial production. GDLS beat out BAE Systems for the MPF award, which begins with an initial order for 26 vehicles, with the Army’s top acquisition official calling this a “benchmark program” for the service’s modernization initiative and the push to move from successfully from rapid prototyping into production. “The MPF program did exactly…

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