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Article: Ground Combat Vehicle program gives defense contractors new target.(NEWS)
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- Crain's Detroit Business
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- September 14, 2009
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Byline: CHAD HALCOM
If there is life after death for the Army's former Future Combat Systems program, then several local defense contractors are interested in a venture to explore the other side.
The U.S. Army Tacom Life Cycle Management Command in Warren issued a "sources sought notice earlier this month for businesses with capability and interest in developing a next-generation class of ground vehicles, as part of the Army's new brigade combat team modernization strategy.
The proposed Ground Combat Vehicle program has a passing resemblance to the former Manned Ground Vehicles program of Future Combat Systems, which was terminated over the ...