A team of BAE Systems and Iveco Defence Vehicles has submitted its proposal to the U.S. Marine Corps for the production of amphibious combat vehicles. BAE said Tuesday its offering for the Amphibious Combat Vehicle 1.1 program demonstrated a capacity to launch from an amphibious ship and return after a 12 nautical mile open ocean swim. The Marine […] More

BAE Systems and its partner Iveco Defense Vehicles have concluded the shipboard testing phase off the coast of Italy for a prototype amphibious combat vehicle the companies built for the U.S. Marine Corps, Defense News reported Wednesday. Jen Judson writes John Swift, ACV program manager at BAE, told the publication Wednesday at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space […] More

A BAE Systems and Iveco Defence alliance is bidding on a contract to build an amphibious combat vehicle for the U.S. Marine Corps. The team offered the military service an ACV platform that has undergone mobility tests and performed amphibious operations, BAE said Tuesday. USMC could award up to two contracts for the engineering, manufacturing […] More

BAE Systems is poised to commence vehicle testing activities after delivering to the U.S. Marine Corps the first production representative test vehicle of the amphibious combat vehicle 30-millimeter cannon variant. The aerospace company said Thursday it will continue to collaborate with the service branch and the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering over the next 15 months to test and demonstrate the PRTV during a Fleet Marine Force event in southern California.

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The Ohio Aerospace Institute is inviting members of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Digital Research Innovation, Validation and Research Consortium to submit proposals for a planned risk reduction and integration pilot project. The proposed Manufacturing at Speed initiative aims to accelerate acquisition cycles for system modifications and new technology development by accelerating design to […] More

BAE Systems and Iveco Defence Vehicles have unveiled the Amphibious Combat Vehicle at an international defense and security exposition in Madrid, Spain, marking the vehicle’s debut outside the United States. ACV-P, the personnel variant and foundation for the entire ACV family of vehicles, took center stage at the FEINDEF event. The fully open-ocean capable platform […] More

Garrett Lacaillade, who has been with BAE Systems for more than a decade working in roles of increasing responsibilities, was promoted to the role of vice president and general manager of amphibious vehicles at the company’s U.S. business arm. In a LinkedIn post on Thursday, the over 14-year company veteran made the announcement of his move […] More

BAE Systems has received an $88 million contract to build amphibious combat vehicles equipped with a 30mm remote turret system for U.S. Marine Corps testing. Norwegian technology company Kongsberg will supply the medium caliber turrets for multiple ACV-30 production ready test vehicles, BAE said Monday. USMC intends to assess the PRTVs before the service branch […] More

The U.S. Marine Corps has asked BAE Systems to look into the possibility of equipping the Amphibious Combat Vehicle with a reconnaissance payload technology intended for data collection and over-the-horizon target detection functions. BAE said Thursday it will study a potential command, control, communication, computers and unmanned aerial systems variant of the military vehicle developed […] More

The U.S. Marine Corps has exercised a $184 million contract option to procure additional amphibious combat vehicles from BAE Systems, increasing the number of ACV full-rate production units ordered by the branch to 72. “The ACV was designed to meet the Marines’ needs of today while allowing for growth to meet future mission role requirements," said John Swift, director of amphibious programs at BAE.

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John Swift, a program director at BAE Systems, has said the company is likely to deliver the first batch of new amphibious combat vehicles for the U.S. Marine Corps in the summer, Marine Corps Times reported Friday. Swift added that BAE aims to complete delivery of 30 lot 1 ACVs by the end of this year and another 30 […] More

The U.S. Marine Corps has adopted a low-risk approach to acquire a new amphibious combat vehicle by opting for commercially available technologies, the National Defense Magazine reported Friday. “The recognition of needing to go with something that was low risk — meaning relatively commercially available — so that you could get a new vehicle into the […] More