{"id":188588,"date":"2010-08-28T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/28\/a-clusterf-deferred\/"},"modified":"2010-08-28T05:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T10:16:00","slug":"a-clusterf-deferred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/28\/a-clusterf-deferred\/","title":{"rendered":"A Clusterf%$# Deferred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/a.imageshack.us\/img94\/5269\/gcvnotionalcopy5714758.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a.imageshack.us\/img94\/5269\/gcvnotionalcopy5714758.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>The Army&#8217;s Ground Combat Vehicle (<span>GCV<\/span>) competition <a href=\"http:\/\/defensetech.org\/2010\/08\/25\/army-cancels-ground-combat-vehicle-gcv-competition\/\">has been canceled<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The Army has canceled the Ground Combat Vehicle (<span>GCV<\/span>) solicitation because the service decided, after an internal and external review, that the current Requests for Proposal (<span>RFP<\/span>) do not accurately reflect Army requirements and a changing acquisition strategy, sources tell us.<\/p>\n<p>A contract for the new vehicle was very close to being awarded, we\u2019re told. A restart of the <span>GCV<\/span> competition is expected fairly soon, a new <span>RFP<\/span> may be out within 60 days, and the Army intends to stay within the original seven year timeline to field a new vehicle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unsurprising.<\/p>\n<p>When you have a series of requirements that <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/in-annals-of-troubled-military-programs.html\">delivers you a proposal for an <span>unwieldy<\/span> and ruinously expensive 70 ton behemoth<\/a>, about the same weight as an M-1 Tank, something is stunningly wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army&#8217;s Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) competition has been canceled The Army has canceled the Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) solicitation because the service decided, after an internal and external review, that the current Requests for Proposal (RFP) do not accurately reflect Army requirements and a changing acquisition strategy, sources tell us. A contract for the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}