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Rheinmetall Adds L3Harris To Team Vying For Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, April 14th, 2021

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Rheinmetall Adds L3Harris To Team Vying For Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle

The Lynx Infantry Fighting Vehicle (Photo: Rheinmetall Defence)

Germany’s Rheinmetall has added L3Harris Technologies [LHX] to its team vying for the Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) program, the companies announced Wednesday, bringing on the electronics firm to provide its modular open systems architecture (MOSA) and mission systems for the Lynx vehicle offering. L3Harris’ new teaming agreement with American Rheinmetall Vehicles to jointly work on the offering for the OMFV programs adds the company to a roster that already includes Textron Systems [TXT] and Raytheon Technologies [RTX] as…

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