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U.S. Marine Corps Amphibious Combat Vehicle, representative personnel variant; not the ACV-30 configuration priced here.

Program · United States · U.S. Marine Corps

Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV)

Eight-wheeled armored vehicle for amphibious and land mobility.

Updated

Cost to the Government

Program totals · 1

  • Program-specific annual RDT&EAnnual research appropriation/reference, not lifetime development cost. FY2025 figures in PB2025 are requests; PB2027 shows FY2025 actuals, FY2026 enacted/spend plan, FY2027 request.
    FY2025 Program Acquisition Costs by Weapon System DoD Comptroller · Mar 2024 · figure FY2025 · PB2025 historical budget snapshot
    $60.2M / yrNominal $; source budget basis

Unit costs · 1

  • ACV-30 award / vehicleDerived $195M / 30. Government Kongsberg turret integration is identified separately; this is the announced contract scope, not a fully burdened delivered-system price.
    $6.5MNominal $; production-award scope

Quantities · 2

  • ACV-30 vehicles in awardNot all ACV-family purchases or operational inventory.
    30U.S. only; stated source scope
  • U.S. inventoryA current U.S. inventory was not established. Annual procurement, cumulative deliveries and production capacity are not a stockpile count.
    Source not recorded
    Not established

Operating costs · 1

  • Annual operations & supportA complete, system-specific annual operating and support cost was not established. Procurement, replacement rounds and contract support are different measures.
    Source not recorded
    Not established
Earlier observations · 6

Superseded estimates and prices, each in its original scope and dollar basis.

1Annual research appropriation/reference, not lifetime development cost. FY2025 figures in PB2025 are requests; PB2027 shows FY2025 actuals, FY2026 enacted/spend plan, FY2027 request.

2Annual program funding in the cited budget vintage; not a unit price, contract award, or actual delivery count.

Variant costs cannot be interchanged

Personnel, command, 30mm and recovery variants serve different roles. PB2025 family funding includes engineering, government-furnished equipment and logistics support.

FY2025 Program Acquisition Costs by Weapon System DoD Comptroller · Mar 2024 · +1 more
Contracts & purchasing · 1

Ceilings, options and purchase agreements are not spending and are never added together. Obligations are under Contracts.

Contracts and purchasing
Buyer → sellerStatusValueQtySource
U.S. Marine Corps → BAE SystemsSource says more than 150 ACV-30s ordered under the contract; ordered is not delivered.Additional ACV-30 production award$195M30Thirty additional ACV-30 vehicles, February 3, 2026 BAE Systems · figure Feb 3, 2026
International buyers · 1
International buyers
CountryQtyStatusSource
United StatesBudget request, not evidence of deliveries or a current fleet inventory.30U.S. procurement customerThirty additional ACV-30 vehicles, February 3, 2026 BAE Systems · figure Dated source snapshot

Open research: Buyer records are selected examples, not a complete global order book. Current U.S. inventory requires additional public evidence; procurement quantities are not inventory. Complete system-specific annual operating and support costs were not established.

What the government budgets and pays for this program, from budget justification books, appropriations, acquisition reports and contract announcements. Each figure states its dollar basis. What contractors were obligated is under Contracts.

Contracts$405M obligated since FY2008

Contractors3

  1. Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace$292M 72%
  2. BAE Systems$114M 28%
  3. Northrop Grumman$182K 0.0%

Awards39

Obligations are signed USAspending prime-contract actions coded to this program, FY2008 to date, credited to the company that received each action. Obligations are money committed, not company revenue.