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 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 software 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 retirement of the AAV-Ps and AAV-Cs in FY 2027 and the AAV-Rs in FY 2029.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2024
• Source ID: 0206629M_7_1319_PB_2024
• Change Summary Explanation: The decrease from FY 2023 to FY 2024 of $7.873M is primarily attributed to reduced System Design and Development for AAV modifications, reduced Engineering and Technical Services, and reduced In-house Technical Support as AAVs are retired early from the fleet. Full funding in FY 2024 supports the programs ability to provide reverse engineering efforts of critical parts shortages prior to system retirement.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

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

Readers

• Civilian Systems Systems Program Capability Development and Upgrade Support Activity Expense and Pay Management.
• Life Cycle Cost Analysis
• Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.