The two contracts are for Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACVs) and Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicles (AMPVs) as part of previously awarded contract agreements worth billions of dollars.
BAE Systems Land & Armaments has been awarded a US$357 million contract for additional AMPVs for the US Army and $188 million for 30 medium-calibre cannon mission role ACV (ACV-30) variants for the US Marine Corps (USMC).
The two contracts are part of a series of rolling awards for the vehicles including a $754 million deal in March 2024 and $224 million in March 2023 for AMPVs and a $79 million in April 2024, $153 million in March 2022 and $211 million in November 2023 for ACV work.
The ACV contract is itself part of a larger deal which, if all its options were exercised, would be worth $3.9 billion. In total, the USMC has a requirement for 579 ACVs, but the need for additional mission variants could increase the number procured to more than 700. It is planned for the first 204 vehicles to be equipped as standard personnel carriers while testing is carried out on the mission variants.
The US Army has an acquisition objective of a total of 2,897 AMPVs under this approximately $14.5 billion programme.
