By Emelie Rutherford A Marine Corps-lead effort for buying thousands of a new breed of all-terrain Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle for Afghanistan is moving forward, with a solicitation to industry likely to debut this month, congressional and Pentagon sources said. A request for proposals (RFP) for the joint-service vehicle effort--alternatively called the MRAP All-Terrain Light Combat Vehicle (MATLCV) and the MRAP All Terrain vehicle (MRAP AT) by sources--could emerge as soon as the coming week. The RFP though,…
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