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US Army to publish new NGSW timetable, issued ‘stop work order' after competition protest

The US Army asked Sig Sauer to resume Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) work in early July after LoneStar Future Weapons withdrew two source selection protests, the service told Janes. Army programme officials are poised to release an updated testing and fielding schedule.

In April, the service announced that it had selected Sig Sauer's XM5 NGSW-Rifle (NGSW-R) offering to replace the M4/M4A1 carbine weapon and the company's XM250 NGSW-Automatic Rifle (NGSW-AR) to replace the close-combat force's M249 Squad Automatic Weapon in the Automatic Rifleman role. The company's 6.8 mm ammunition was also selected.

LoneStar Future Weapons (previously under a General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems contract) and Textron Systems had also been competing for the contract. Colonel Scott Madore, the army's project manager for soldier lethality, confirmed during a 20 April press conference that the service had eliminated Textron Systems from the competition early on because its offering “had not fully met the success criteria”.

https://www.janes.com/defence-news/weapo...on-protest

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