Refurbished Stryker Double-v Hull vehicles

General Dynamics Land Systems has been awarded a $118 million contract by the US Army Tacom Life Cycle Management Command to convert 66 flat-bottom Stryker infantry combat vehicles to a newer, more survivable double-V hull (DVH) design. Deliveries of the vehicles will begin in July 2014 and be completed by February 2015. The Army partnered with General Dynamics in 2012 and launched a Stryker DVH-exchange pilot programme to validate that components from traditional Stryker flat-bottom variants can be quickly refurbished and installed on a new, more survivable double-V hull variant, at less cost than producing a new vehicle. General Dynamics and the Anniston Army Depot in Anniston, Ala., successfully completed the DVH pilot programme in April 2013 and delivered 52 Stryker vehicles on time and under budget.