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The U.S. Army announced Friday that it had selected four companies to build tactical truck prototypes. In a release, the branch awarded Mack Defense, Navistar Defense, Oshkosh Defense and the American Rheinmetall Vehicles/GM Defense team deals worth a combined total of $24.25 million. The contractors will provide three prototypes of each variant for the Common Tactical Truck (CTT) Family of Vehicles. Each team will build three prototypes of each variant, including the M915 Line Haul Tractor and M1088 Medium Tractor, the Palletized Load System (PLS) and the Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT). The contractors will provide three prototypes of...

Navistar International Corp on Thursday confirmed that it has received notice from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of an investigation into diesel-engine production that could lead to as much as $285 million in fines. In a letter dated Jan. 30, the EPA informed the Lisle, Illinois truck and engine maker that it is investigating whether 7,600 engines built in 2009 were properly certified under the Clean Air Act. Each violation carries a fine of up to $37,500. The engines in question were so-called transition engines, or engines built at a time when the company was preparing to launch a new...

Health Reform: As major businesses lay out the impact of ObamaCare in dollars and jobs, two things are clear: the costs will be enormous, and the president's vow to focus on "jobs, jobs, jobs" can no longer be believed. Early returns on ObamaCare are coming in, and they belie proponents' claims of job creation and cost reduction. The costs will increase. They are merely being shifted to the states and to America's businesses, large and small. AT&T, the country's largest telephone company, announced Friday it will take a $1 billion first-quarter charge related to the new health care law. The...

Navistar trucks are making the move from the highway to the battlefield with a mine- and ambush resistant military vehicle. Take a closer look at the new min-resistant, ambush-protected military vehicle.

WARRENVILLE, Ill., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Marine Corps ordered 755 more Category I Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles from International Military and Government LLC. International is a subsidiary of Navistar International Corp. The contract, for the delivery of the vehicles by the end of February 2008, is valued at approximately $414 million. The additional order brings the total number of MRAPs to 1,971 from International for a cost to the military of more than $1.045 billion. MRAPs are designed to protect troops from improvised explosive devices and other roadside bombs. "The urgency to rapidly deliver these life-saving armored...