The Army Is Seeking Firms to Build Highly Mobile Light Tanks for Infantry Brigades
BAE Systems displays an early prototype of its Mobile Protected Firepower at AUSA s 2016 meeting and exposition in Washington, DC. (Photo courtesy of BAE Systems)
16 Feb 2021
U.S. Army modernization officials are looking for defense firms capable of producing lightweight tanks to arm infantry brigades with more firepower for the future battlefield.
Program Executive Office for Ground Combat Systems released a market survey Friday afternoon under the Mobile Protected Firepower, or MPF, program to find companies able to manufacture hundreds of these highly mobile, light armored vehicles, according to the document, released on the U.S. federal contracting website.