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Navy/USMC

Marine Corps Awards Textron, GD Deals For ARV ‘Pre-Production’ Vehicles, Plans Downselect In Early FY ‘31

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, April 2nd, 2026

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Marine Corps Awards Textron, GD Deals For ARV ‘Pre-Production’ Vehicles, Plans Downselect In Early FY ‘31

Textron's Cottonmouth Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle platform. Photo: Textron Systems.

The Marine Corps on Thursday announced new awards to Textron Systems [TXT] and General Dynamics [GD] Land Systems (GDLS) to continue Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) prototyping and deliver “pre-production” vehicles, with an aim to inform a procurement decision in early fiscal year 2031. Both companies will deliver vehicles in late FY '28 across three variants, to include a new logistics configuration. “The competitive prototyping phase for the ARV provided a firm basis for Textron and GDLS to demonstrate the feasibility of…

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