Navistar, BAE Awarded Military Truck Order

Navistar International Corp. and BAE Systems won 99% of a $1.1 billion Pentagon order for blast-resistant trucks, Bloomberg reported.

The award shut out rival Force Protection Inc., which won just 29 of the 2,243 vehicles ordered Monday for delivery by November, the Defense Department said in a statement, Bloomberg reported late Friday.

United Kingdom-based BAE received orders for 1,471, almost two-thirds of the total. Earlier awards have been split more evenly between the three.

Meanwhile, Force Protection, based in Ladson, S.C., delayed its annual report for the second time in less than three weeks, Bloomberg reported. The company is “working as expeditiously as possible” to complete the reports, Bloomberg said.

The trucks, used to protect troops from roadside bombs in Iraq, have blast-deflecting V-shaped hulls that are four times safer than flat-bottomed transports, Bloomberg reported.

 The orders add to the 11,891 Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected vehicles, or MRAPs, previously purchased but do not fulfill the Defense Department’s plan announced in September to buy 15,274 of the units, Bloomberg said.

Navistar is the parent company if International Truck and Engine Corp.