Plain talk.
1. The AAV is too old to upgrade further. Either you buy new hulls of the existing design with improvements or...
2. You accept that a new design Amphibious Combat Vehicle is needed and you buy Marine Personnel Carriers as an interim vehicle until the ACV is ready.
Those are the only real choices left to the Marine Corps. All a patch job will do is divert funds from more capable vehicles while maintaining an obsolete vehicle in service. That's unacceptable.
Trying to make the acquisition lifecycle work quickly can be done but it takes a very savvy officer as the program manager, requires the full support of the rest of the DOD procurement institution and most importantly of all congress has to be onboard.
ReplyDelete