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Pencils up: Bids are due for Army’s Bradley replacement and it’s only the beginning
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U.S. Army 3rd Division 3-7 Bradley fighting vehicles take up a position along a road March 19, 2003, inside the demilitarized zone between Kuwait and Iraq. (Scott Nelson/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON The deadline to submit a preliminary design for the Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) is April 16, but the cutoff marks not the time for industry officials to put pencils down, but rather the time to pick them up.
Among the companies that have announced bid submissions or intentions to compete are prime defense contractors General Dynamics Land Systems, BAE Systems and a Rheinmetall North America-led team to include Raytheon, Textron and L3Harris. ....

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