The Army has chosen its Next Generation Squad Weapon rifle and light machine gun variants, but one company isn’t pleased with the service’s decision to go with Sig Sauer. LoneStar Future ...

Program Executive Office-Soldier conducted a live fire event of the Next Generation Squad Weapon Systems during the Maneuver Warfare Conference in Fort Moore, GA, September 13, 2023. (Army) The ...

The Army has sped up and shifted its fielding of the Next Generation Squad Weapon rifle to Pacific-focused and special operations units in the coming months and next year. The Next Generation ...

On Wednesday, Army Contracting Command dropped a formal Prototype Project Opportunity Notice calling on industry partners to send in two variants — the Next Generation Squad Weapon-Rifle (NGSW-R ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Army announced the award of ... Inc for the manufacture and delivery of two Next Generation Squad Weapon variations (the XM5 Rifle and the XM250 Automatic Rifle) and ...

The next developments for the Army’s newest rifle and machine gun may have more to do with software than bullets. The Army fielded its first batch of the Next Generation Squad Weapon ...

New Hampshire-based arms manufacturer SIG Sauer was selected as the winner of the Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) program early this year. Its SIG MCX-SPEAR rifle beat a trio of ...

Last April, the Army awarded a contract to Sig Sauer to produce the Next Generation Squad Weapon — or NGSW — XM7 Rifle, XM250 Automatic Rifle and a 6.8mm family of ammunition to replace the ...

On April 19, 2022, the U.S. Army awarded SIG Sauer a $20.4M-contract for the Next Generation Squad Weapon. Under the contract, SIG is supplying the Army with the new XM7 rifle and XM250 automatic ...

The first rifle weighs 6.5 pounds, impressively light considering it has four barrels. The Army’s M4 carbine, by comparison, weighs approximately 7 pounds. Much of the weight savings appears to ...

The U.S. Army recently selected Sig Sauer, maker of the new Modular Handgun System, to make .300 Win Mag ammunition for the service's bolt-action sniper rifle ... the Army's Next Generation ...

The Next Generation Squad Weapon-Automatic Rifle. (Army) Non-close combat forces will continue to carry the M4 and M249 for the foreseeable future. The legacy M4 and M249 fire the 5.56mm round ...