Marine Corps Assault Vehicles System Development & Demonstration

Mission — MC AVS Development & Demonstration source

This is a CMC Force Design program. ACV provides protected mobility to otherwise dismounted infantry formations and enables littoral maneuver from ship-to-shore and from shore-to-shore. Equipped with modern communications systems and weapons for infantry support-by-fire, the ACV significantly improves the ability of Fleet Marine Forces to access, seize, and hold key maritime terrain in the execution of Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations. The Amphibious Combat Vehicle is imperative to realizing Marine Corps requirements for Fleet Marine Force 2030. The capability to project power from the sea ensures joint freedom of maneuver against increasingly sophisticated area denial and anti-access strategies across the range of military operations in areas vital to our national interest. To this end, an ACV creates operational and tactical options through rapid maneuver on sea and land, provides for the seamless transition of combat power from sea to land, enables rapid response to crisis, enables the introduction of joint follow-on forces and can impose disproportionate costs on our enemies who must extend their defenses. This program has delivered the initial capability of Personnel variants (ACV-Ps) in November 2020 and delivered the initial capability of Command variants (ACV-Cs) in 1st quarter of FY 2025. The Improved Lethality variants (ACV-30s) are on track to deliver in the 3rd quarter of FY 2026, and Recovery variants (ACV-Rs) in the 1st quarter of FY 2028.

Mission — Amphibious Combat Vehicle Family of Vehicles source

This is a Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC) Force Design program. The Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) replaces the legacy Assault Amphibious Vehicle (AAV) battalions within the Marine Divisions. ACV-equipped Amphibious Assault (AA) companies will provide protected mobility and general support lift to elements of Marine Infantry Battalions. The ACV, an advanced generation, eight-wheeled armored personnel carrier, will mitigate current and projected capability gaps by providing improved lethality against dismounted enemy troops, more effective land and water tactical mobility, and increased force protection and survivability from blast, fragmentation, and kinetic energy threats. ACV was structured to be executed in multiple increments, with the first increment designed to provide an initial operational capability of personnel carriers (ACV-P). Subsequent increments were planned to provide additional personnel carriers and to develop Mission Role Variants (MRVs), such as command and control (ACV-C), improved lethality (ACV-30), and tactical recovery capabilities (ACV-R). In an Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM) dated 8 Jan 2019, ASN(RD&A) authorized the program office to combine the ACV 1.1 and ACV 1.2 programs into a single ACV Family of Vehicles (FOV) that continues the phased development and procurement approach.

Mission — Congressional Adds source

This project is a Congressional addition in FY 2024 to determine whether Spherical Brakes would be a suitable replacement for the existing brake system on the ACV Family of Vehicles. It includes developing the Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) for Spherical Brakes with the Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) and Reliability Qualification Testing (RQT) and Mission Profile Testing with the Aberdeen Test Center. The Army RCCTO executes rapid prototyping and initial equipping of strategically important capabilities to meet commanders' warfighting needs.

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