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The Marines will develop a revamped procurement target in the wake of the AAV7 termination. The ACV program's second phase, Increment 1.2, called for the delivery of up to 490 additional vehicles featuring various mission variants (command and control, logistics, recovery, and possibly turreted). The Marines funded another 30 vehicles in FY19, and plans to procure 52 vehicles in FY20 and 96 in FY21.

Deliveries are scheduled to begin in fall 2019. The contract includes options for 204 ACVs over four years, worth $1.2 billion. BAE Systems won the ACV Increment 1.1 competition in June, and the company was awarded a $198 million contract to provide 30 low-rate initial production vehicles. The program's termination will result in the procurement of additional ACVs. The Marine Corps requested $156.2 million for AAV7 work in FY19, with $814.2 million programmed through FY23. The Marines were planning to put the prototypes through their paces before approving full-rate production of 392 upgraded vehicles (out of a fleet of around 1,000 vehicles). Additional options would lead to testing and LRIP of 52 vehicles for operational test and evaluation. SAIC was selected in March 2015 to build 10 prototypes for the survivability upgrade under a $53 million contract. The survivability upgrade was intended to keep a portion of the AAV7 fleet operational through at least 2035 to serve alongside the new ACV. The service issued a 90-day partial stop work order to Science Applications International Corp, but SAIC said they will still delivery four vehicles over the 90-day period.īAE Systems teamed with Iveco with a version of the Italian SuperAV, and beat out a version of the Terrex 2 offered by SAIC/ST Kinetics (Picture source: US Naval Institute)

Marine Corps spokesman Manny Pachecho said the decision stems from a renewed focus on modernization in support of the National Defense Strategy, according to. It will instead acquire a larger fleet of new Amphibious Combat Vehicles. Marine Corps is terminating its Assault Amphibious Vehicle ( AAV7) survivability upgrade program, InsideDefense reports.

Program will be terminated assault squad 2