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    Army Selects 5 Firms to Develop Automatic Rifle Prototypes

    Five companies have won separate 12-month other transaction agreements to develop automatic rifle prototypes for the U.S. Army. The OTAs announced Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice will cover the development and production of a system demonstrator representative of level 6 technology and manufacturing readiness under the Next Generation Squad Automatic Rifle program. The Army seeks an NGSAR […] More

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    Report: Army to Award Weapon Prototyping Contracts Soon

    Sergio Aponte, a product director at the U.S. Army, has said the service branch plans to award contracts in June to start the process of buying multiple infantry weapons for foot soldiers, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. The report noted the Army wants to procure Next-Generation Squad Weapons designed with an open architecture that can support […] More