GM GDLS Defense Group L.L.C. in Sterling Heights, MI was awarded on Feb. 28, 2006, a $27.4 million modification to a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for Contractor Logistics Support of deployed Stryker armored vehicles. Vehicles serving in Iraq have almost invariably been M1126 ICVs. Work will be performed in Ontario, Canada (61.9%), Iraq (23.4%), Fort Lewis, WA (5.7%), Fort Wainwright, AL (4.7%), Sterling Heights, MI (2.2%), Kuwait (1.6%), and Vilsek, Germany (0.5%), and is expected to be complete by Feb. 28, 2007. This was a sole source contract initiated on Dec. 9, 2003 by the U.S. Army Field Support Command in Rock Island, IL is the contracting activity (DAAE07-02-C-B001).

