GM Defense: New President, New Factory, New Electric Truck

Tuesday was a big day for GM Defense, the tiny defense subsidiary of auto giant General Motors. The company:

announced a new president, former Army helicopter test pilot Steve DuMont, who spent 13 years at high-tech powerhouse Raytheon;
officially opened its new factory in Concord, N.C., where it’ll build hundreds of air-droppable Infantry Squad Vehicles for the US Army;
and unveiled an electric variant of the ISV, using the battery from the Chevy Bolt – leveraging its parent company’s $27 billion, five-year investment plan in electric vehicles.
“That vehicle is out driving around right now,” DuMont told me in an interview. “[We built it] in a pretty short period of time, on our own investment…We’ll bring it to Fort Benning next week and let some of the warfighters evaluate it.”