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2025 – 2026
The Army changes its mind: In 2025, under the Army Transformation Initiative, the Army moved to stop buying what it called obsolete capabilities — the JLTV and the Humvee among them; an April 2025 memorandum from the Secretary of Defense ending new Humvee procurement is reported in company-contact summaries, at that strength. The Army requested no JLTV procurement funds for fiscal 2027 and stated it planned no additional JLTVs beyond vehicles already delivered. The production consequence, on the budget record: the final fiscal 2026 defense spending bill, reported by Defense Daily on 22 January 2026, included $345 million for continued Army JLTV procurement — an increase of about $300 million over the request — and fully funded the Marine Corps' $81.9 million and the Air Force's $62.2 million.
The schedule fight, printed whole: Against the company's position stand the budget documents. Fiscal 2027 budget exhibits describe AM General as about nineteen months behind contracted production lead times, on supply-chain and ramp-up grounds; House appropriators cited more than twenty months behind schedule with approximately 2,000 vehicles in arrears, and proposed cutting the Marine Corps' fiscal 2027 request of $245 million by $133 million. Senator Tammy Baldwin's letter of 12 June 2026 stated that no production-standard A2 had been accepted despite nearly $2 billion obligated. The Marine Corps paused new JLTV A2 procurement in fiscal 2026 and issued a request for information for a second supplier on 27 May 2026; its fiscal 2027 plan resumes procurement at 341 vehicles and 171 trailers.
The company's answer: AM General's public statements stand on the other side of the same record. At the Global Force Symposium in March 2026, reported by Defense Daily, the company called the program "healthy," fielding on track for the second half of 2026 after testing and conditional material release, with "a production backlog for years" across Army, Marine Corps, and international orders, and said it had delivered vehicles since late 2025. Chief executive John Chadbourne's statement of 26 June 2026 answered the congressional criticism directly: the company had processed more than 2,100 supplier change requests and corrected deficiencies in the inherited technical baseline, was ramping production while supporting government testing through 2026, expected full production in 2027, and held a funded backlog of $2 billion. Even the full-rate expectation conflicts at strength: one program summary carries full-rate production from the summer of 2026 at up to fifteen vehicles a day; the company's own line points to 2027. Both are printed; the record pulled for this section does not settle between them.
The Humvee's new contract: The older vehicle, meanwhile, drew new money in the same season: on 13 August 2026 the Army awarded AM General a HMMWV indefinite-delivery contract with an initial value of $82.2 million and a cumulative face value of $754.6 million through 31 August 2028. And at the AUSA exhibition in October 2026 the company showed the Next Generation HUMVEE Phase One — a new common-rail diesel powerpack and long-travel suspension — with phase-one production planned for late 2027, against service projections that keep the Humvee in the United States fleet to at least 2050.
Sources:
- Defense Daily, 22 January 2026 — the fiscal 2026 bill's $345 million Army JLTV procurement and the Marine Corps and Air Force funding; Defense Daily, March 2026 (Global Force Symposium) — the company's "healthy" program statement and late-2025 deliveries.
- Fiscal 2027 budget exhibits and House appropriations reporting — the roughly nineteen-months-behind description, the approximately 2,000 vehicles in arrears, the proposed $133 million Marine Corps cut, the 341-vehicle and 171-trailer fiscal 2027 resumption.
- Senator Tammy Baldwin, letter of 12 June 2026; AM General chief executive John Chadbourne, statement of 26 June 2026 — the acceptance dispute and the company's answer, including the 2,100 supplier change requests and the $2 billion funded backlog.
- Army contract announcements, 13 August 2026 — the HMMWV IDIQ at $82.2 million initial and $754.6 million cumulative through 31 August 2028; AUSA 2026 reporting — the Next Generation HUMVEE Phase One and late-2027 production plan.