Dear Mr. John Daggett, Oshkosh Corporation spokesman. The following item is from Defense Professional News:
“Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., is being awarded $16,820,812 for firm-fixed-price delivery order #0122, under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (M67854-04-D-5016) for the purchase of 137 Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) reducible height armor kits and four MTVR reducible height wrecker armor kits for the Navy Seabees.
Work will be performed in Israel (85 percent) and Oshkosh, Wis. (15 percent), and work is expected to be completed by June 30, 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Marine Corps System Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.”
Why, when the US is need of jobs, will 85% of the work on this contract for Oshkosh be done in Israel? Thanks, in advance, for providing this information.
Jeff Blankfort
Host, Takes on the World KZYX & Z, 90.7, 91.5, Mendocino Co. Public Radio, www.kzyx.org
