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Marine Corps Selects GD, Textron For Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle Prototype Effort

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, July 16th, 2021

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Marine Corps Selects GD, Textron For Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle Prototype Effort

Textron Systems’ Prototype Cottonmouth vehicle for use in the Marine Corps’ Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) competition. (Photo: Textron.)

The Marine Corps announced on Friday it has selected General Dynamics [GD] Land Systems and Textron's [TXT] Textron Systems for its Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) prototyping effort, with each company slated to deliver a test vehicle in early fiscal year 2023. The two companies were the only firms to submit bids for the program and negotiations on the prototyping deals are expected to be completed by the end of August, Barb Hamby, a spokesperson for the Marine Corps’ Program Executive…

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