Oshkosh to refurbish heavy vehicles in theater for the US Army
Oshkosh Defense, a division of Oshkosh Corporation, will refurbish an additional 140 vehicles and trailers in theater for the US Army under a new order from the Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC). Through the Theater-Provided Equipment Refurbishment (TPER) program, Oshkosh works with the Army to return battle-damaged vehicles to full mission-capable operability at the company's Kuwait facility.
"Our in-theater refurbishment service reduces the maintenance cycle time by weeks and gets these vehicles back where they're needed most, in the field with the Warfighters," said Mike Ivy, vice president and general manager of Army Programs for Oshkosh Defense. "To date, we have refurbished nearly 1,500 heavy vehicles and trailers for the Army at our Kuwait facility."
The TPER program was born out of an urgent requirement to repair tactical vehicles worn from extreme conditions and return them to the field. Oshkosh works with the military to ensure vehicles are restored to meet the military's strict equipment-readiness standards before they return to operations in theater. Oshkosh also communicates and collaborates extensively with TACOM and the Defense Logistics Agency to maintain a multifaceted supply-chain management approach.
Oshkosh will refurbish its Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Trucks (HEMTT) and Heavy Equipment Transporters (HET) under the order. The vehicles are a part of the Army's Family of Heavy Tactical Vehicles (FHTV), which also includes the Oshkosh-produced Palletized Load System (PLS). Oshkosh also will refurbish M1000 HET Trailers, which were not originally produced by the company.
The vehicles and trailers being refurbished were operating in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The order extends Oshkosh's TPER work until May 2011 and is valued at more than $11 million.
Source: Oshkosh
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