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Navistar Secures Military Contracts
(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
Navistar Defense announced that it continues to expand its defense
products by leveraging its expertise to convert commercial vehicles for
military applications in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Two contracts totaling $60.4 million were awarded to Navistar Defense.
The contracts were awarded by the U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management
Command: one calling for 289 passenger buses and the other for 196
refrigerator trucks, the company noted.
The buses produced for the first contract, worth $31.6 million, will be
based on the IC Bus CE 300 school bus platform and will be powered by
MaxxForce DT engines. Work will be conducted at the company's Conway,
Ark., bus plant with deliveries beginning in late February 2009 to be
completed by the end of June 2010.
"The core of Navistar's strength is the ability to leverage our
engineering, manufacturing and sustainment expertise to rapidly provide
the U.S. and its allies with a wide portfolio of products," said Bob
Walsh, vice president, Navistar Defense. "We are proud that the
military entrusts Navistar to produce a wide portfolio of products to
serve the troops."
The second $28.8 million contract from TACOM for refrigerator trucks
will be based on the International WorkStar platform and will run on
the MaxxForce family of engines. Deliveries will begin in January 2009
and will be completed by late August 2009.
Also contributing to Navistar's success in the defense industry is a
$35.8 million contract award for engineering changes to mechanical
systems for the MaxxPro Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle.
The contract, granted by the U.S. Marine Corps, is part of the ongoing
sustainment of the MaxxPro to improve its capabilities as needed. Work
will be performed in West Point, Miss., and is expected to be completed
in April 2009.
In addition, the company has begun transitioning its production of
MaxxPro MRAP vehicles to the lighter and more mobile MaxxPro Dash,
designed for the conditions in Afghanistan. Full production of the
Dash, which is also built off the company's commercial severe service
platform, is scheduled to begin in mid-October. In early September,
Navistar was awarded a $735 million contract to produce 822 units of
the MaxxPro Dash.
Navistar Defense is an affiliate of Navistar International, a holding
company whose subsidiaries and affiliates produce International brand
commercial and military trucks, MaxxForce brand diesel engines, IC
brand school and commercial buses, and Workhorse brand chassis for
motor homes and step vans.
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