Stryker is a family of eight-wheel-drive combat vehicles that travel at speeds up to 62 mph on highways with a range of 312 miles. The vehicle operates with the latest C4ISR equipment and an integrated armor package that protects soldiers against improvised explosive devices, rocket-propelled grenades and a variety of infantry weapons. Stryker's combined fleet operational readiness rate is in excess of 96% with more than 6.5 million miles accumulated through two completed rotations in Iraq.

Significantly lighter and more transportable than existing tanks and armored vehicles, Stryker fulfills an immediate requirement to equip strategically deployable (C-17/C-5) and operationally deployable (C-130) brigades capable of rapid movement anywhere on the globe in a combat-ready configuration. Stryker brigade combat teams have been operating in Iraq since October 2003.

The first contract, a delivery order valued at $5.9 million, will provide a brigade set of Stryker add-on armor slat kits and the associated hardware. The second is a contract modification valued at $8.1 million for Stryker contractor logistics support to establish a remote weapons station (RWS) block I spare parts pipeline. While the third is a contract modification, valued at $5 million for contractor logistics support to Stryker brigade combat teams deployed outside the United States. Currently, the U.S. Army plans to have a fleet of 2575 Strykers. To date, approximately 1500 have been delivered.

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