Comments on: Another Protest, Stop-Work: FMTV

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:57:17 +0000

Not only that, but the cabs are also armored, which requires a lot of metal and specialty manufacturing.

By: CLYDE

CLYDE — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:37:04 +0000

hey rob BAE SUCKS

By: Rob Jones

Rob Jones — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:20:22 +0000

Oshkosh sucks the Big One.

By: zzyzxmo

zzyzxmo — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:45:56 +0000

Resurrect the duece-n-half. New Cat engine, new allisson 645 tranny. Cheap workhorse that proved itself since WWII, Korea, and ‘Nam. Cheap. easily repaired and if need be, disposable.

By: Matthew G. Saroff

Matthew G. Saroff — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:56:37 +0000

I worked S&S on the program, and they screwed up in reverse: The drawing package was marginally acceptable, but bad enough that it made competing bids difficult.

My guess is that Oshkosh buckled down, and redid the drawings on their own dime.

By: Mac

Mac — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:25:12 +0000

Stop what you are making, I smell a acorn in the pot.….….

By: william lynch

william lynch — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:04:50 +0000

Someones’ brother-in-law must have a design that they want to push so the Bro-in-law can stop borrowing money. This company has ‚for years, produced trucks trhat are very good, meet and exceed reqs and aren’t a problem to service when and if maint becomes a necessity.

By: Curt 2

Curt 2 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:35:25 +0000

@Bill,
Have you priced a large commercial truck lately, let alone one that can go cross country? And the contract is not just for a barebones truck. Seems reasonable to me.

By: ReconTeam

ReconTeam — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:28:52 +0000

Ish… our military should have the best trucks we can get but that is absurd.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:09:56 +0000

Recon:

Something is wrong when that truck has a unit cost of over 100k.……

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:29:50 +0000

Doesnt OshKosh have enough to do?? starting to look like somebody knows somebody, hmmm

By: Curt

Curt — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:36:23 +0000

This one seemed pretty likely to be protested if anyone but BAE won. After all, they designed the truck in the first place and have been producing it for years. For that matter they will continue to make it until Oshkosh ramps up production. At least the government was smart enough to buy and retain the rights to the entire design on the truck, so they can compete it in the first place.

By: roland

roland — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:32:07 +0000

I think the M142 HIMARS can be usefull in any future-large type of war , say Korean, Chineese or Rusian war type of usage. It can be usefull for future defense.

By: ReconTeam

ReconTeam — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:40:33 +0000

Something is wrong when we can’t buy a truck.

By: Aurora

Aurora — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:24:21 +0000

Protests are inevitable unless Congress acts to change the law. Does anyone think that CSAR-X would be in production today if not for the protests that ensued after the source selection?

By: Colin Clark

Colin Clark — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:11:07 +0000

Density,

I am still waiting for a company to declare that they planned for a protest from the beginning and their lawyers readied the papers within hours of learning they lost. My wait may extend for some time, I’m guessing.

By: DensityDuck

DensityDuck — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:53:37 +0000

:sigh: ATL? Association of Teachers and Lecturers? Atlas Transformation Language? William B Hartsfeld International Airport?

“Linda Hudson, president of land and armaments, said the company “did not take lightly” the decision to protest the award to Oshkosh.”

Well, of course she’d say that. What do you expect, she’d say “yeah we pretty much just crapped this protest out as standard procedure, in fact we had the letter drafted and ready to go six months before the award date”