Amphibious Assault Vehicle

Abstract

The Assault Amphibious Vehicle (AAV) program provides life-cycle support to ensure cost-effective combat readiness for the AAV Family of Vehicles (FOV). This is accomplished through engineering changes resulting from continuous review of sub-systems to maintain system supportability, safety, reduce total ownership costs, improve fleet readiness, address obsolescence issues, and improve vehicle performance. The Recovery variant will provide recovery support and design tradeoffs for the ACV until an ACV Recovery variant is fielded. Improvements to the fleet reduce total ownership costs and improve sustainability. The AAV Modifications Line procures modernized components and subsystems that impact safe and reliable use of the AAV such as the Water Egress Capability (WEC), Tactical Communication Modernization (TCM) to meet NSA's cryptographic modernization mandates, quarterly technical refresh of servers and laptops for Command-variant (C-Variant), and associated production support for the AAV FOV. Funding for the AAV FOV is critical to maintaining the amphibious capability of the USMC until the Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) is fully fielded and operational. In accordance with CMC Force Design, the order and testing of preplanned product improvements for the AAV program has come to an end; the program will continue to support the fleet of AAVs for emerging issues pertaining to design/redesign of parts and components for obsolescence, supportability, and safety issues through system retiremenet in FY 2027.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2023
• Source ID: 0206629M_7_1319_PB_2023
• Change Summary Explanation: The increase from FY 2022 to FY 2023 $0.695M is primarily attributed increased In-house Technical Support to provide technical support for required quarterly software and firmware updates each year to maintain the AAV Command variant security certification and to address unplanned design efforts which may be required to address major dead lining issues, safety of use, and obsolescence. Full funding in FY 2023 supports the programs ability to provide critical hardware and software technology refreshes to continue operating the Command variant, provide obsolescence support and engineering services needed to address performance and safety issues, provide lifecycle management to maintain fleet configuration. --- FY 2023 funding increase reflects the fact that the FY 2022 President’s Budget request did not include out-year funding.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Additive Manufacturing
• Amphibious Military Vehicles
• Amphibious Operations
• Amphibious Vehicles
• Combat Readiness
• Combat Vehicles
• Command And Control
• Contracts
• Engineering
• Life Cycles
• Manufacturing
• Procurement
• Product Development
• Supply Chain
• Tactical Communications
• Test And Evaluation
• Vehicles

Readers

• Life Cycle Cost Analysis
• Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
• Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.