Lockheed Martin celebrated the delivery of twenty-two Joint Light Tactical Vehicles to the U.S. Army and Marine Corps under the JLTV program’s Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) contract.
JLTV team members marked the milestone during a ceremony on the Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control facility in Dallas. The vehicles would be transferred to the Army’s Yuma Test Center in Arizona and to Aberdeen Test Center in Maryland, where Lockheed Martin will support a 14-month period of presidency evaluation and testing.
“Our team has produced a highly capable, reliable and affordable JLTV for our customers,” said Scott Greene, vp of ground vehicles for Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control.
“These vehicles will meet the hardest demands of our Soldiers and Marines. They deserve our greatest, and that’s precisely what we delivered.”
After rolling up greater than 160,000 combined test miles within the program’s Technology Development phase, the Lockheed Martin JLTV was selected for continued development through a $65 million EMD contract from the military and Marine Corps in August 2012. Lockheed Martin designed its JLTV specifically to fulfill stated customer requirements for this system, in place of looking to adapt an existing vehicle. The result’s a lighter, more blast-resistant and more agile vehicle.
The Lockheed Martin JLTV is designed to be a complete solution – engineered from the floor as much as balance the “iron triangle” of protection, performance and payload while maintaining affordability.
The vehicle provides greatly improved crew protection and mobility, lower logistical support costs, superior fuel efficiency, exportable power-generation with substantial margin for future growth, and state-of-the-art connectivity with other platforms and systems. A Meritor Pro-TecTM air suspension system contributes to outstanding off-road performance while minimizing crew fatigue.
BAE Systems is liable for the JLTV’s geometrically enhanced protection system, a design that permits levels of blast protection never before achieved on this vehicle class, and for vehicle final assembly.
For greater than three decades, Lockheed Martin has applied its systems-integration expertise to quite a lot of successful ground vehicles for U.S. and allied forces worldwide.
The company’s products include the combat-proven Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) M270-series and High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) mobile launchers, Havoc 8