{"id":194017,"date":"2008-11-01T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/01\/jltv-update\/"},"modified":"2008-11-01T07:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T12:16:00","slug":"jltv-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/01\/jltv-update\/","title":{"rendered":"JLTV Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The army had <a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=3787567&amp;c=AME&amp;s=LAN\">delayed the announcement downselection of proposals<\/a> for the Hummvee replacement though the scuttlebutt is that there are three designs that will go on to the next , and they are <a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=3787622&amp;c=AME&amp;s=LAN\">buying interim mine resistant vehicles<\/a> for Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The existing MRAPs are faring poorly on Afghanistan&#8217;s generally crappy roads and harsh terrain.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s either budget, or a problem with the program causing the delay.<\/p>\n<p>Danger <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/2008\/10\/winners-tapped.html\">room has a report on the awards<\/a>, but no link yet.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s confirmed. The winners for this stage are <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DefenseTech\/~3\/436882745\/004500.html\">Lockheed Martin; a joint venture between General Dynamics Land Systems and AM General, and BAE Systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of interest, no hybrid vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The army had delayed the announcement downselection of proposals for the Hummvee replacement though the scuttlebutt is that there are three designs that will go on to the next , and they are buying interim mine resistant vehicles for Afghanistan. The existing MRAPs are faring poorly on Afghanistan&#8217;s generally crappy roads and harsh terrain. It&#8217;s &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194017"}],"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=194017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}