via DefenseMediaNetwork. Check out the entire article but this stood out and punched me in the eye.
ACV program plans seem to be coalescing around an approach outlined, “As approved at the ACV Material Development Decision (MDD), the ACV program has been approved to enter a combined Material Solution Analysis/Technology Development Phase. An In Process Review will be held after the Analysis of Alternatives (AoA), at which time the material solution will be set and the subsequent Milestones will be established. For this RFI, the government is looking for industry input into an incremental acquisition program to deliver a series of incremental capability upgrades in order to inform ongoing affordability analyses. This could be achieved either through delivery of a baseline new vehicle with subsequent planned upgrades, or a set of planned upgrades to the legacy vehicle. The overall intent is to minimize the per vehicle cost of each of the increments without stretching the program over more than three increments, and preferably only two.”Wow.
I don't know where I'm at with this type of thinking. "A set of planned upgrades to the legacy vehicle"...WTF!
HQMC initially stated that they would be upgrading the AAV while developing and getting into service the ACV.
Now we might be left with the laughable position of the AAV getting renamed and rewrapped again. Aviation----you're killing the ground side-----but if that is the game plan then it does make the Marines EXTREMELY frugal again.
Color me confused.
