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2010 – 2022
Foreign military sales: Through the years when the commercial plant cycled through its ventures, Plant 1's work ran on the unglamorous engine of foreign military sales and support contracts. The documented course: in August 2010, a $619 million contract for 2,526 HMMWVs for the Afghan police and National Guard. On 6 July 2015 the Department of Defense announced a $372,936,476 firm contract — options for 2,082 HMMWVs, for Afghanistan, Iraq, Kenya, Lebanon, Ukraine, and Tunisia; the announcement carried the company under its contracting label "South Bend, Indiana," though the work is the Mishawaka line's. On 29 July 2016 a modification of $356,213,318 covered 1,259 M1151A1B1 and 414 M1152A1B2 vehicles for Afghanistan, the announcement stating in terms: "Work will be performed in Mishawaka, Indiana."
The 2017 requirements contract: In August 2017 the Army awarded a five-year foreign-military-sales requirements contract valued at $2.2 billion, for up to 11,560 new HMMWVs; within a month, delivery orders under it exceeded $550 million, for Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Jordan, Slovenia, Bahrain, Colombia, Bosnia, and Kenya among others. In September 2018 came an $800 million five-year contract for up to 2,800 M997A3 ambulances; 2019 brought 648 of those ambulances on a $185 million order in April and 739 M1152A1 vehicles for the National Guard at $89 million in March. The pattern is the plant's modern character: not one great program but a continuous braid of export and support orders, sized in the hundreds of vehicles, that has kept the line in production into its fifth decade.
The totals, printed whole: How many Humvees Mishawaka has built is carried at two strengths, and both stand. The reference works' production total for the vehicle stands at approximately 281,000. The company and recent trade profiles speak of more than 300,000 Humvees built or delivered, and the company published in the middle 2010s a figure of about 250,000 Humvees operating in fifty countries. The figures measure different things — production, deliveries, and surviving fleet — and are printed attributed, not reconciled.
Sources:
- Department of Defense contract announcements — 6 July 2015 ($372,936,476, options for 2,082 HMMWVs, six named countries); 29 July 2016 ($356,213,318 modification, 1,673 vehicles, work in Mishawaka).
- Army contract record and trade press — August 2010 ($619 million, 2,526 vehicles); August 2017 ($2.2 billion requirements contract, up to 11,560 vehicles, $550 million in first-month orders); September 2018 ($800 million ambulance contract); 2019 orders.
- Humvee reference works — the approximately 281,000 production total; company statements (2015-era) — about 250,000 Humvees in fifty countries; trade profile (October 2026) — more than 300,000 built since 1984.