GM Defense's Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV) Heavy Gun Carrier variant pictured here. (Photo courtesy of GM Defense)
WASHINGTON — The Army aims to release proposal requests for its heavy variant of the infantry squad vehicle (ISV) this fall, a senior service official told lawmakers, adding that the Army is attempting to field the capability as quickly as possible.
“The ISV-Heavy is certainly a top priority for us. We are looking to accelerate, and I do believe we are. I think one of the things that’s allowing us to accelerate is the fact that we have established PAEs [program acquisition executives], and we have portfolios now,” Jesse Tolleson, principal deputy of Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, told the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday.
“We’re working closely with our requirements community, and that’s allowing us actually to move out quickly with the competition that we’re going to hold for the ISV-Heavy. I believe it’s going to be in fourth quarter of this year, actually, is when we’re going to start to release the RFP,” he continued before the subcommittee on Airland.
The upcoming request would follow an initial commercial solutions opening in late March, which primed the contractors to further prepare their commercial proposals. A traditional RFP doesn’t always follow a CSO. Rather, a request for commercial solution proposals (RCSP) would typically follow the CSO. The Army did not immediately respond to a request for comment on if Tolleson was referring to a RFP or RCSP.
