Hendrick Motorsport teams up with GM Defense.
GM Defense, a subsidiary of General Motors, opened its new state-of-the-art production facility last week in Concord, North Carolina - just a two hours' drive from the US Army's Fort Bragg. It also named its new president, Steve duMont, whose previous gig was 13 years at Raytheon Intelligence & Space. Last summer, GM Defense won a contract from the US government worth over $200 million to build 649 units of the next-generation Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV), which is based on the Chevrolet Colorado ZR2.
One of the key reasons why the ISV beat out proposals from rival defense manufacturers is because GM Defense said it could build a lightweight vehicle, something that'll be fast on the battlefield and can be transported there with ease by a Blackhawk helicopter. Enter Rick Hendrick and his company, Hendrick Motorsport.