Marine Corps Awards Contracts for Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle Prototypes

The U.S. Marine Corps awarded contracts to General Dynamics Land Systems and Textron Systems Corporation earlier this month, moving forward with the second phase of rapid prototyping for the service’s Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle.  Both GD Land Systems and Textron will build and deliver their respective solutions to meet the Marine Corps’ requirements for its Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicles, the service announced April 1. The Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle will be a purpose-built family of vehicles, with new capabilities to support mobile reconnaissance, and is meant to replace the Light Armored Vehicle. “[The Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle] is designed to be highly mobile, networked,