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July 25, 2013 By AMK

Lawmakers protect funding to refurbish Humvees

A U.S. House of Representatives panel has preserved funding to refurbish Humvees despite an Army request to shift some of the money to pay for more urgent needs.

The House Armed Services Committee, headed by Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif., denied the service’s request to transfer $171 million from a program to refurbish, or re-capitalize, the iconic four-wheel drive High Mobility Multi-purposed Wheeled Vehicle, or HMMWV, known as Humvee and made by AM General LLC, based in South Bend, Ind.

“These funds are necessary … to sustain reset as units return home from Afghanistan and other deployments,” McKeon and Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., the highest-ranking Democrat on the panel, wrote to Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale in a letter dated June 21 and obtained by Military​.com. “Rapid reset is vital to overall unit readiness, and … these vehicles could be used to address current shortfalls in the Army National Guard.”

Keep reading this article at: http://www.dodbuzz.com/2013/06/28/lawmakers-protect-funding-to-refurbish-humvees/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: Army, Congress, DoD, funding level, HMMWV, Humvee, Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected, MRAP, rebuild, refurbish, repair, reprogramming

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