Tactical Wheeled Vehicles Tactical Wheeled Vehicles Tactical Wheeled Vehicles Division. Plotkowski, Deputy Project Manager, Transportation Systems, as the recipient of its 2. Red Ball Express Award. The award is presented to individuals who have made significant contributions to strengthening our national security by developing, introducing or supporting tactical wheeled vehicles. Plotkowski’s leadership and expertise has led to a legacy that includes enhancing the warfighter’s maneuverability on the battlefield. She was instrumental in the implementation of the Headquarters, Department of the Army (HQDA) TWV Strategy through execution of the TWV Fleet Plan presented to Congress. Additionally, her work has included the execution of acquisition and total life management of numerous key vehicle fleets.“We are pleased to present Ms. Patricia Plotkowski with the 2. Red Ball Express Award,” said Ronald W. Johnson, Chairman of NDIA Tactical Wheeled Vehicles Division. Plotkowski’s superior leadership and performance in a broad range of transportation assignments throughout her 3. The formal Red Ball Express Award presentation to Ms.
Plotkowski will take place on Tuesday, May 1. Tactical Wheeled Vehicles Conference at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, VA. About NDIAThe National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) is America’s leading defense industry association promoting national security. NDIA provides a legal and ethical forum for the exchange of information between industry and government on national security issues. NDIA and its members foster the development of the most innovative and superior equipment, training and support for warfighters and first responders through its divisions, local chapters, affiliated associations and events. Purpose. The recipient must have made significant contributions that led to the strengthening of our national security by developing, procuring, or supporting Tactical Wheeled Vehicles or enabling critical technologies that contribute to the same. Policy. Ron Johnson, Chairman, NDIA Tactical Wheeled Vehicles Division; and Mr. General Craig Mc. Kinley, USAF (Ret.), President & CEO, NDIA; Mr. Ron Johnson, Chairman, NDIA Tactical Wheeled Vehicles Division; and Mr. Tactical Wheeled Vehicles Conference. Tactical Wheeled Vehicles Conference. Event #5. 53. 0August 2. Hyatt Regency Reston. Reston, VAhttp: //www. As the Army and Marine Corps prepare to take delivery of their first batches of joint light tactical vehicles this fall. Joint Light Tactical Vehicle; Type: light tactical vehicle: Place of origin: United States. At the conclusion of the Concept Refinement phase in December 2007, the Joint Program Office (JPO) JLTV Project Manager. USMC Faces Sustainment Challenges for Tactical Vehicle Fleet. Mr. Wyche,USA, Deputy Commanding General,U. S. Army Materiel Command. Watercraft. Yakovac,USA (Ret.)Congressional Panel. Jay Kimmitt, Executive Vice President, Oshkosh Corporation. Paul Terry, Professional Staff Member, House Appropriations. Committee. Jesse Tolleson, Professional Staff Member, House Armed. Services Committee. USMC panel. Thomas Killion, Acting Director, Office of Technology, Office of. USMC Program Manager, Light Tactical Vehicles . Mark Godfrey, Combat Development & Integration, USMC . Steve Pinter, PEO Land Systems, USMC Program Manager. Theme: “ Tactical Wheeled Vehicles Update ' (pdf. Naval Research (ONR). Thomas Miller, PEO Land Systems; USMC Program Manager, MRAP. Andrew Rodgers, PEO Land Systems, USMC Program Manager,Light Tactical Vehicles . Mark Godfrey, Combat Development & Integration, USMC. Steve Pinter, PEO Land Systems, USMC Program Manager MHTVGraybeard Panel. Popps, former Acting ASA(ALT). Lennox, USA (Ret.)Army Project Manager Panel. Pat Plotkowski, Deputy Project Manager, Transportation Systems. Steven Rienstra, Product Director, Light Tactical Vehicles. Army Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G- 8 presentation by Mr. Don. Tison (SES), Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, G- 8. U. S. Army, Sustainment Center of Excellence presentation, by Mr. Moore (SES) Deputy to the Commanding General. Awarding the gold medal to Kevin Fahey by. Larry Farrell, President/CEO of NDIA 2. Red Ball Express Award. April 2. 1, 2. 01. Today at the Rayburn Building NDIA presented its prestigious Red Ball Express Award to Douglas R. Tolleson of the Congressional House Armed Services Oversight Team for their consistently demonstrated unmatched cooperation, expertise, and commitment to the strategic viability of the TWV industrial base. The “Red Ball Express” award is proudly named after the famous Transportation system in World War II. The Red Ball Express was an enormous truck convoy system created in 1. JLTV testing begins, program on schedule. Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Program; Product Manager JLTV. Army drives ahead with Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program; Army News Service.Allied forces moving quickly through Europe after breaking out from the D- Day beaches in Normandy. Some 2. 8 divisions were advancing across France and Belgium, each ordinarily requiring 7. Patton's 3rd Army was soon grinding to a halt from lack of fuel and ordnance. The route, marked with red balls, was closed to civilian traffic; the trucks were marked with the same red balls and given priority on regular roads. The key to pursuit was a continuous supply of fuel and ordnance, thus leading to the name, Red Ball Express. Awarding the citation and gold medal to Bush and Tolleson were Larry Farrell, President/CEO of NDIA and Ron Johnson, NDIA Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Division Chair. Past Red Ball Express Award Recipients. Ms. Patricia Plotkowski, Deputy Project Manager, Transportation Systems. Mr. Jeff Bradel, ONR2. Douglas R. Tolleson of the Congressional House Armed Services Oversight Team. Mr. Sprang, JPO JLTV2. Joint Program Office, Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles. The “Red Ball Express” award is proudly named after the famous Transportation system in World War II. The Red Ball Express was an enormous truck convoy system created in 1. Allied forces moving quickly through Europe after breaking out from the D- Day beaches in Normandy. Some 2. 8 divisions were advancing across France and Belgium, each ordinarily requiring 7. Sprang The award was presented at NDIA's Michigan Chapter . Sprang, JPO JLTV, on March 2. Annual Membership Social in Sterling Heights, MI. The Red Ball Express is awarded for outstanding contribution to the Tactical Wheeled Vehicle (TWV) community. Recipients of this award must have made significant contributions that have led to the strengthening of our national security by developing, procuring, or supporting Tactical Wheeled Vehicles or critical technologies that contribute to the same. Mr. Sprang has made many significant contributions to the development and support of light tactical vehicles, especially the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), over the last eight years during a critical period of military combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sprang managed the production and fielding of thousands of armor kits for HMMWV’s in Iraq and Afghanistan, at a value of over six billion dollars. His relentless drive to field these kits as rapidly as possible, while adhering to exacting standards, saved countless American and allied lives. Sincerely,NDIA & Tactical Wheeled Vehicles Division- Top of Page - Division Mission/Objective/Purpose. Division Objectives. The primary objective of the Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Division of NDIA is to enhance the security of the United States by promoting communications and interaction between defense industry, government and military in the area of automotive activities. The specific charter of the Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Division is to conduct conferences in technology areas directly related to automotive research, design, development, test and production. Box 2. 56. 6Oshkosh, WI 5. Phone: (9. 20) 2. NDIA Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Division Vice- Chairman: Barry Tyree. Colonel, U. S. Army (ret)President and CEOBNT Consulting, LLC1. Rollins Road, Ste #2. Rockville, MD 2. 08. Phone: (7. 03) 3. Secretary. Alexandra C. Hittle Manager, Domestic Marketing. Oshkosh Defense. Office: 9. Kathryn Hasse, Lockheed Martin. Henry Hodges, Hodges Transportation. Meg Kulungowski, Navistar Defense. David Laverdiere, Allison Transmission. Curtis Mc. Coy, Cypress International. Ainsworth (Andy) Mills, Alcoa. MG Roger Nadeau, USA (Ret.), American Business Development Group (ABDG). Larry Platt, AM General. John Stanek,BAE Systems. Barry Tyree, BNT Consulting. COL James Wank, USA (Ret.), Command Holdings Group. Government Liaison Representatives. Michael Clow, PEO CS& CSS PAO. Don Overton, TRADOCJames (Jay) Proctor, PEO LS, USMC- Top of Page - Division Meetings & Events. The annual Tactical Wheeled Vehicles Conference is the only one held annually that is specific to the military’s Tactical Wheeled Vehicle community. Cavedo Jr., USA (pdf)Project Manager. Joint Program Office. Joint Light Tactical Vehicles Theme: “JLTV Update. AUSAThe US Army is going to get lighter. At least that’s the message that industry is taking from several recent service initiatives. Moreover, it’s one of the messages that industry participants conveyed during last month’s Association of the United States Army (AUSA) 2. Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D. C. Recent expressions of Army interest in new lightweight vehicle platforms have included exploration of a new Ultra Light Combat Vehicle (ULCV) platform as well as information requests for a slightly heavier Light Reconnaissance Vehicle (LRV) concept. In both cases the notional platforms are significantly lighter weight than the current HMMWV. Reflective of this light platform interest, across more than 6. AUSA 2. 01. 4, several companies devoted space to highlighting their products or capabilities in this emerging light vehicle space. Here are 5 representative examples of the trend: 1. Polaris Defense: DAGOR ULCVBuilding on its success in providing all terrain vehicles to the special operations community, Polaris Defense unveiled its new DAGOR ULCV at AUSA 2. According to Rich Haddad, Polaris Defense General Manager, DAGOR is “under contract with elements of U. S. Special Operations Command and international SOF customers.”DAGOR is larger than Polaris SOF ATVs like MRZR and MV8. Haddad with representing “a step up in size for Polaris and in payload for our customers.”With a curb weight of less than 4,5. DAGOR’s dimensions allow rapid loading into the CH- 4. Chinook platform without modification as well as “sling loading” under the UH- 6. Black Hawk. Highlighting the SOF platform’s applicability toward the “Big Army” interest in a possible ULCV, Jed Leonard, manager of Advanced Mobility Platforms at Polaris Defense, noted, “It provides the optimal balance of rapid air transportability, payload and advanced mobility. The design offers our customers a modular, lightweight platform to support a variety of expeditionary missions.”2. General Dynamics: Ground Mobility Vehicle General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GD- OTS) is currently under contract to produce the Ground Mobility Vehicle (GMV) “1. United States Special Operations Command. Also known as “Flyer 7. AUSA 2. 01. 4.“As we did with the Ultra Light Combat Vehicle requirement, which is the 4. Flyer 7. 2 / GMV 1. SOF- unique / SOF- specific items off that vehicle, and that brought us down to 4. Sean Ridley, Program Manager for Light Tactical Vehicles at GD- OTS. And we demonstrated that last year at the platform performance demonstration at Ft. Bragg.”Pointing to the subsequent release of information request for LRV, he said the company “took the same Flyer 7. GMV 1. 1 base and teamed with Nobles Worldwide for the VIPER mount for the M2. Although the vehicle displayed at AUSA was not armored, he added that the idea for LRV is “to take the base vehicle with the SOCOM armor package, with 6 guys inside the vehicle – which we already meet – and provide the . Krauss- Maffei Wegmann: “Mungo” lightweight air- portable vehicle. In recent years, Germany’s Krauss- Maffei Wegmann (KMW) has used the AUSA venue to highlight systems like its “Puma” Infantry Combat Vehicle (ICV). The ICV emphasis made sense in light of the fact that “Puma” frequently emerged as a potential fallback solution for the Army’s next generation Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) program. However, following the cancellation of the Army’s GCV program in early 2. AUSA 2. 01. 4 saw “Puma” reduced to scale model display status in the KMW exhibit with the bulk of the area devoted to the company’s “Mungo” lightweight air- portable vehicle. Currently fielded to German Army paratrooper units, the Mungo has been used in international operations since 2. The platform is currently available in three different variants: basic; multi- purpose; and large- space. A KMW representative noted company recognition that the US Army was “looking for something slightly different and very light,” adding that the decision to highlight Mungo was designed to “show how simply this could be done.”4. The Boeing Company: Phantom Badger. The Boeing Company included a variant of its new light “Phantom Badger” vehicle prototype in its AUSA display. We’ve even had operators winch it over a tree branch. We have personnel carrier modules, assault modules, crew rescue modules, utility modules, and also some special mission modules that we have done for some customers. We are constrained only by the volume of fitting it into an aircraft and the payload weight of the vehicle itself.”Acknowledging that the program participants were “very familiar with the ULCV,” he added, “We are participating down at Ft. Benning in the current phase of the Army Expeditionary Warfare Experiment – . Navistar Defense: Special Operations Tactical Vehicle Navistar Defense also responded to early Army ULCV interest with information on its Special Operations Tactical Vehicle (SOTV), which reflects the company’s earlier work on USSOCOM’s Non Standard Tactical Truck, a specially built armored vehicle designed to “resemble” the ubiquitous pickup trucks around the world. According to Scott Cassidy, product manager for the SOTV at Navistar Defense, the company “submitted something” in response to early ULCV interest but stopped the process when it was clear that and ULCV would need to be “’underslung’ from a . Army officer with defense industry experience spanning unmanned air vehicle, tracked combat vehicle, and individual lethality programs. He is the author of more than 2,0. U. S. He currently holds masthead listings as correspondent, contributing editor, or North American editor for nearly one dozen international defense publications.
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