WASHINGTON — Following a Marine Corps solicitation seeking a potential second supplier for Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTVs), OshKosh Defense is throwing its hat in the ring with its JLTV A1 model, specifically to close what one senior company executive is calling “readiness gaps” in the service’s vehicle fleet.
As it is now, AM General is the sole supplier of JLTVs for the Marine Corps with its A2 variant, and OshKosh serves as a subcontractor on the contract.
Previously, OshKosh was the sole supplier of JLTVs to the Army joint program office (JPO) that supplied the vehicles to the Army and Marines, but in 2023 AM General upset incumbent OshKosh Defense for the contract. But after the upset, Logan Jones, chief growth officer for OshKosh alleged there’s been a 20- to 24-month delay in AM General’s deliveries — hence OshKosh is vying for the potential new competition, he said.
“[The Marines] have an urgent and well-defined need for a combat proven vehicle today, and that’s what the JLTV is,” Jones said in an interview. “The issue at hand is that we delivered the last JLTV a year ago, and they fielded that at the beginning of the year, and every day that goes by, it creates or widens a readiness gap. There’s just no trucks being delivered, and they need to find a second source to close that gap.”
