NSCV
NON-STANDARD COMMERCIAL VEHICLES one of the higher global demand signals within the Family qWith of Special Operations Vehicles (FOSOV), the Non-Standard Commercial Vehicle (NSCV) fleet is based on commercial vehicle platforms that are enhanced with mission-specific modifications to increase protection, mobility performance, and durability. Battelle Memorial Institute is currently providing several different models of the modified vehicles under a seven-year indefinite delivery/ indefinite quantity contract that began in July 2016.
ENGINEERING EXPERTISE According to program manager Jim LaBine, the NSCV concept is not really new for Battelle, with the institute having provided a
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range of modified and up-armored vehicles to various customers for several years. “We started a long time ago doing ‘Humvees,’” he explained during a tour of one of Battelle’s manufacturing facilities. “We also did the Polaris RZR before Polaris realized that we were selling their RZRs with modification. In fact, we donated one of ours to the Navy SEAL Museum.” LaBine said that the original vehicle armoring was done with composites, with the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) contract representing the institute’s first all-steel solution. “We had been doing ‘NSCV-type vehicles’ for years, not for SOCOM, but for other clients,” he said. “But SOCOM was a large contract, and we decided to take the lessons learned from some
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BY SCOTT R. GOURLEY
