WASHINGTON — AM General, manufacturer of the A2 variant of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV), responded today to lawmakers’ threats to pull funding from the Marine Corps’ procurement budget for the vehicle due to delivery delays, citing “complex” transition issues as the reason for such setbacks.
Earlier this week, the House appropriators on the defense subcommittee wrote in their version of the Defense Appropriations Act that they wish to reduce $133 million from the proposed $245 million for the A2 variant and reallocate those funds to be used for non-developmental JLTVs and trailers.
President and CEO of AM General John Chadbourne, however, said in a press release today: “Transitions of major defense production programs from one manufacturer to another are inherently complex. The JLTV A2 transition proved especially challenging due to the unforeseen condition of the technical baseline we inherited, the engineering effort required to mature the design for production, and supplier transition issues encountered during execution,” .
Previously, Oshkosh Defense was the sole supplier of JLTVs to the Army joint program office (JPO) that supplied the A1 variant vehicles to the Army and Marines. In 2023, AM General upset the incumbent with its A2 variant, and as a result, AM General was responsible for the “transition” from one supplier to another, according the release.
