SAIC wins $192M contract to upgrade amphibious vehicles

Science Applications International Corp. has won a $192 million contract with the Marine Corps to support the Legacy Assault Amphibious Vehicle Personnel Carrier Variant Platform program.

The base value of the contract is $16 million.

Under the contract, SAIC will engineer, design and test upgrades to 10 prototype and 52 LRIP vehicles. The company will upgrade the vehicles to provide improved protection while gaining back land and water mobility that improves the vehicles’ ability to fight, the company said in a release.

Work will be performed in Charleston, S.C.