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Providence-based Textron Inc., a losing bidder in the competition to develop prototypes of a vehicle that may replace the U.S. fleet of Humvees, filed a protest to the Government Accountability Office.

The objection by Textron follows the Nov. 7 protest by Northrop Grumman Corp., another competitor denied the project.

Textron's team included Boeing Co. and SAIC Inc. The Army and Marine Corps chose three teams out of at least seven that bid to build prototypes for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program. The winners were Lockheed Martin Corp., BAE Systems PLC and a General Dynamics Corp. joint venture with AM General.

"We believe there are unintended discrepancies in the methodologies and standards used to establish the ratings for contract award," Stephen Greene, a spokesman for Textron, said today.

The JLTV is intended to offer more protection from roadside bombs than the Humvees now used in Iraq. The Army and Marine Corps may ultimately buy more than 160,000 of the new trucks in a program valued at as much as $40 billion.-

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