Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) Engineering and Manufacturing Development Phase (EMD)

Abstract

The JLTV Family of Vehicles (FoV), to include a companion trailer, is a United States Army (USA) acquisition lead, joint program with the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC). The JLTV is capable of performing multiple mission roles and designed to provide protected, sustained, networked mobility for personnel and payloads across the full range of military operations. JLTV objectives include increased protection and performance over the current fleet; and, minimizing ownership costs by maximizing commonality, fuel efficiency, reliability, and maintaining effective competition throughout the life cycle. Commonality of components, maintenance procedures, training, etc., among vehicles is expected to be inherent in FoV solutions across mission variants to minimize total ownership cost. Unique service requirements have been minimized. The JLTV Trailer (JLTV-T) is the companion trailer to the JLTV and safely carries its payload while maintaining the same mobility characteristics of the prime mover. The trailer requirement as defined in the Capability Production Document (CPD), dated 21 November 2014 was validated on 7 June 2019 by the Army and required the JLTV and JLTV-T to be fielded as a system. On November 2019, Army Futures Command validated the JLTV-T Army Procurement Objective (APO) of 18,224. The Follow-on JLTV Contract was awarded on 09 February 2023 as a single award five year requirements contract with five one year options. This program element supports modernization of the JLTV FoV by investigating technology insertions including, but not limited to: predictive logistics, vetronics, Victory Architecture, autonomous operations and other emerging technologies. This program element also supports developing initial prototypes to enable refinement of Operational Requirements and early user feedback to support future sustainment and operational movement operating concepts. The FY 2024 budget funds the Follow-on-Contract Live Fire Testing and the development and continuation of engineering efforts that include development of acoustic mitigation, occupant safety/survivability, JLTV and JLTV-T mission sets (e.g. - Assault Kitchen) and artic enhancements. Funding also supports the development on JLTV Anti-Idle and the development of Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV) and Battery Electric vehicles (BEV) that support the Army Climate Change Strategy (Line of Effort 2.1) to modernize existing platforms by adding electrification technologies, (Line of Effort 2.2) to field purpose-built hybrid-drive tactical vehicles, and mitigates a gap in Large-Scale Combat Operations to employ semi-independent maneuver in a Multi-Domain Operational (MDO) environment. A JLTV HEV/BEV will seek to improve and provide new capabilities such as silent mobility, extended silent watch, reduced fuel consumption, increased automotive performance, increased on-board vehicle power (Direct Current), available export power (Alternating Current), integrated charging, potential Vehicle-To-Grid (V2G) and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2024
• Source ID: 0605812A_5_2040_PB_2024
• Change Summary Explanation: Increased funding for climate change initiatives related to ground vehicles and fuels.
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Energy and Power Technologies
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Alternating Current
• Army Procurement
• Battery Electric Vehicles
• Climate Change
• Combat Operations
• Contractors
• Contracts
• Electric Vehicles
• Emerging Technology
• Fuel Efficiency
• Greenhouse Effect
• Greenhouse Gases
• Hybrid Electric Vehicles
• Military Operations
• Procurement
• Propulsion Systems
• Test And Evaluation

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