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October 15, 2008: The U.S. Marine Corps has gone back to the drawing board with its new EFV (Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle). It has made changes in the electronics, waterproofing of electrical ...
Shaun Doheney, the deputy director of the Amphibious Vehicle Test Branch at Pendleton, as he and other Marines highlighted the qualities of the new war fighting machine to the media. The EFV is ...
June 9,2008: The U.S. Marine Corps has a procurement disaster on their hands. It's all about their new EFV (Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle). Congress is refusing to provide money for mass production ...
Three years ago, after Pentagon acquisition officials decided not to kill the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle during a review ... the leader of the Marines' Combat Development Command, told ...
Earlier this week, we ran a story on the Marine's Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle that questioned the swimming amphibian's utility, arguing that it was a niche capability. Our resident maritime ...
The Marine Corps awarded them a four-year, $36 million contract to produce a training regimen for one of its top priorities for the future: the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle, a $12-billion tank ...
The Marine Corps is racing to beat the clock as it tries to jump-start work on a cheaper replacement for its Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle. It was another of those Pentagon programs that ...
the Marine Corps cancelled the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) program due to poor reliability demonstrated during operational testing and excessive cost growth. Because the EFV was intended ...
The boatlike EFV, with water jets that gave it a speed of almost 30 miles an hour at sea and ability to carry up to 17 Marines, was ultimately canceled in 2011 due to spiraling costs, reliability ...
The Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle could be the most powerful and versatile armored transport ever built. Amphibious assault is one of the U.S. Marine Corps major missions. Unfortunately ...
A faster, high-tech seafaring tank for U.S. Marines has hit countless setbacks and cost overruns during the past two decades, and now it is one of the pricier items on the Defense Department's ...
Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. My colleague Megan Scully from CongressDaily reported on Wednesday that Navy Undersecretary Robert Work has kicked off a study on ...