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Work Well Underway On New Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle Prototypes

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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

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By Emelie Rutherford While it remains to be seen how the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) fares in a major Pentagon review, the Marine Corps is making progress developing reconfigured prototypes of the next-generation amphibious tank. Col. Keith Moore, the EFV program manager, told Defense Daily in a September interview he is "in the same boat" with other people waiting to see if the General Dynamics [GD] program survives the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). In the meantime, he said several significant…

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