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Oshkosh Defense is ramping up production and delivery of the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected - All Terrain Vehicles (M-ATV) up to 1,000 vehicles per month as part of the massive effort to deliver the urgently requested vehicles to the U.S. military in Afghanistan, company officials said.
The first seven lighter-weight, more mobile MRAPs have arrived in Afghanistan, Army and Oshkosh officials said.
Oshkosh has been put on contract to deliver 5,244 M-ATVs to meet the need for protected, off-road driving in Afghanistan.
"They [Oshkosh] have to date exceeded their ramp up," said Lt. Col. Coll Haddon, program manager, M-ATV. "Next month they will deliver 300-plus, and the following month it will be 680-plus, and by December we'll have 1,000 vehicles being delivered per month to the military."
"We have seven vehicles in theater in Afghanistan. We already have 10 vehicles in Italy and Germany. We are training units before they go into Afghanistan.
"The feedback we have received is the soldiers love it."
In an effort to incorporate lessons learned from the original MRAP program, Oshkosh as the contractor is putting in the initial wiring of the government-furnished equipment instead of having the government do it, in order to speed up and streamline the vehicle delivery process.
"We put in contractual language to have Oshkosh do the integration of the government-furnished equipment," Haddon said.
The Oshkosh M-ATVs are built to handle aggressive, off-road terrain, said Rob Messina, chief engineer for Oshkosh's M-ATV program.
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