The Army chose Sig Sauer for its next-generation rifle and not everyone is happy about it

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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 Weapons filed a protest bid with the Government Accountability Office on May 18. Further details were not provided in the bid protest, and the Army, Sig Sauer, and LoneStar Future Weapons either did not respond or declined to comment.

LoneStar’s design featured a “bullpup” configuration, in which the magazine is behind the trigger control assembly, as well as a reciprocating barrel that moves backward with each shot to absorb recoil. It also featured composite 6.8 mm ammunition made by True Velocity, which is an average of 30% lighter than brass cartridges.

In April, the Army chose Sig Sauer for the Next Generation Squad Weapon, ultimately replacing the M4 and M249 Squad Automatic Weapon for soldiers who serve in frontline military occupational specialties. The company will build the XM-5 rifle and XM-250 Automatic Rifle and the 6.8 mm ammunition that they chamber. The Army ultimately plans to buy 107,000 M5 rifles and 13,000 M250 machine guns, as well as all of the 6.8 mm ammunition from Sig Sauer for the next several years, for a total cost of $4.7 billion.

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1. For that kind of money, you can be sure there would be a protest.

For that kind of money, you can be sure there would be a protest.