International chief for navy mobility options, AM Common, has teamed with IDV, a number one worldwide protection contractor with over 85 years of expertise within the growth and the manufacturing of a variety of logistic, protected, and armored autos for navy use. In collaboration with IDV, AM Common formally submitted a Request for Prototype Proposal (RPP) to compete for the U.S. Military’s Widespread Tactical Truck (CTT) Program, which goals to develop a versatile and safe structure to interchange their Heavy and Medium Tactical Wheeled Automobile Fleet (TWV). AM Common is happy with its long-standing partnership with the U.S. Military, having delivered world-class and fight confirmed options with a variety of autos together with the long-lasting 5-ton vans, 2.5-ton vans, and the HUMVEE household of autos. The corporate’s intensive manufacturing experience coupled with its IATF 16949 certification (the premier commonplace for automotive manufacturing) makes them an elite automotive producer on the earth.
“We’re glad to affix AM Common on the CTT program, and we’re wanting ahead to uniting forces and to contributing to this partnership with our expertise in designing and constructing multi-purpose, protected, and armored navy options. Along with AM Common, we will ship progressive automotive and safety options to fulfill the necessities and wishes of the U.S. Military,” stated Claudio Catalano, CEO of IDV. “The options developed are a concrete proof of the dedication and the proactive method that IDV and AM Common have developed due to this strategic partnership”.
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“I’m enthusiastic about our collaboration with IDV as a result of it marries worldwide enterprise with our deep expertise in supporting the US Army. Collectively, we’re a formidable pressure prepared to offer one of the best resolution for CTT,” stated Jim Cannon, AM Common President and CEO. “IDV is constructing this functionality for our allies and companions in the present day!”
IDV is presently partnered to offer the US Marine Corps with the brand new technology of Amphibious Fight Autos and has delivered progressive automotive and safety options to fulfill the wants of navy prospects worldwide. AM Common is leveraging IDV’s well-established, commercially out there autos that incorporate main automotive enhancements and superior applied sciences equivalent to drive by wire and gasoline effectivity capabilities to fulfill CTT necessities, which give ample alternative for steady innovation. The workforce’s Excessive Mobility Vary Automobile structure for CTT will likely be based mostly on a newly launched extremely modular vary of vans, particularly designed for navy use. When designing this new vary of vans, IDV benefitted from the corporate’s important expertise acquired over time by consistently responding to the wants expressed by the shoppers in over 100 nations. The autos assure their customers state-of-the-art security by way of high-level ballistic and anti-mine safety wherever required. They span from 4×4 to 10×10 with various kinds of cabins and the power to fulfil a wide range of roles. This ensures a excessive stage of commonality to scale back the logistical footprint envisioned for the CTT program.
The competitors for the CTT program is a consequential, “once-in-a-generation” alternative to overtake how Medium and Heavy Tactical Vans are utilized on the battlefield. The U.S. Military has lengthy relied on 4 completely different legacy platforms to carry out key vital capabilities that apply to on a regular basis mission roles. From load dealing with techniques to gasoline supply, towing, and hauling of vital components and provides, these platforms have to be upgraded to offer higher help to the Warfighter to create a safer, simpler, and interoperable setting. As confirmed companions to the US Authorities and Allied forces, AM Common and IDV are happy with the standard navy autos they’ve delivered and sustained, together with AM Common’s 400,000 gentle tactical autos in over 70 nations – greater than another producer on the earth.
AM Common is an American heavy car and contract automotive producer based mostly in South Bend, Indiana. It’s best identified for the civilian Hummer and the navy Humvee which might be assembled in Mishawaka, Indiana. For a comparatively transient interval, 1974–1979, the corporate additionally manufactured transit buses, making greater than 5,400. AM Common has intensive expertise assembly the altering wants of the protection and automotive industries, supported by its workers at main amenities in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, and a powerful provider base that stretches throughout 43 states.
