AUSA 2025: GM Defense to deliver over 1,200 ISV-Us in 2026

An Infantry Squad Vehicle carries a Tactical Electronic Warfare System-Infantry during the 101st Airborne Division training rotation at Fort Johnson, Louisiana. (Janes/Meredith Roaten)

GM Defense will deliver its newest Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV) models to the US Army by the end of 2026, announced Major General Pete Johnson (retd), the vehicle manufacturer's vice-president of business development for integrated vehicles.

The army started fielding ISV nine-passenger seat configurations in 2024 as part of the Transforming in Contact (TiC) units that were turning Infantry Brigade Combat Teams to Mobile Brigade Combat Teams (MBCTs). ISV Utility (ISV-U) – a five-passenger model – will now be in the hands of soldiers starting “as early as May 2026”, Erica Mitchell, spokesperson for GM Defense, told Janes on 15 October.

“The only reason the army is going to be able to get to the ISV Utility next year is because we shared the risk, we built ahead of need, and it may not have been exactly what they're going to get next year, but it was good enough to do the reps and sets to get the feedback not only to us but to the army and inform that requirement decision making,” Johnson told the audience during a panel at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) annual conference on 15 October.

ISV-U's main priority is modularity, he said. “We've uniformly drilled bolt on positions that tie in the structure,” he said. Electronic warfare systems such as Palantir's Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) could be integrated into the system, he added.

Because the company is trying to work with industry partners to integrate as many different types of capabilities as possible, more mission power is the main ask, Johnson said.