Once upon a time, there was AMC (American Motor Company). This company owned Jeep and Eagle. Being the owner of Jeep, they obviously held the contract to make military Jeeps. When the military decided it was time to improve, AMC built the Humvee, and got the contract for that. Everything was fine and dandy until the late 70's/early 80's, when AMC was sinking. AMC sold off Jeep and Eagle to Chrysler, but kept the Humvee program seperate, I don't recall if AMC kept it or what, but it was never owned by Chrysler. The situation we have now is GM decided to buy out the rights to the name so they could start making the H2 and now the H3.