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U.S. Army Orders 2,800 MK22 Barrett Rifles Our Bureau 417 MK22 Multi-role Adaptive Design (MRAD) rifle The U.S. Army awarded a $49.9 million five year contract to Barrett Firearms Manufacturing Inc. to acquire MK22 Multi-role Adaptive Design (MRAD) rifles. The Army will procure approximately 2,800 MK22 rifles from Barrett, the current maker of the Army’s M107 .50 Caliber Long Range Sniper Rifle. The MK22 is part of the Army’s Precision Sniper Rifle (PSR) Program which also includes the Leupold & Stevens (Beaverton, OR) Mark 5 HD scope and a sniper accessory kit, the service said in a st...

The U.S. administration, led by President Joseph Biden, is proposing a massive infrastructure plan to replace the nation’s crumbling bridges, roads and other critical structures. But to make those investments pay off, the U.S. will need designs that can endure the changing climate. Most U.S. infrastructure is designed to stand for decades, including through what engineers expect to be rare storms and floods. However, extreme storms that were considered rare a few decades years ago are already becoming more common. Hurricane Harvey in 2017 was the Houston area’s third “500-year flood” ...

Army inks $49.9M deal to buy 2,800 MK22 MRAD rifles from Barrett Firearms By (0) The Army has made a $49.9 million, five-year deal to buy MK22 Multi-role Adaptive Design rifles from Barrett Firearms. Photo courtesy U.S. Army April 1 (UPI) -- The Army announced this week that it has awarded a $49.9 million, five-year contract to Barrett Firearms to acquire about 2,800 MK22 Multi-role Adaptive Design, or MRAD, rifles. According to the Army, the MK22 is part of the Army's Precision Sniper Rifle program, which will allow the Army an extreme-range weapon system that is lighter than current snipe...

Past Governor, National YEA Chair, American Society of Heating and Refrigeration Engineers Chair, Stantec Innovation Committee  OFF THE CLOCK Passion for inventing. "Over the years I have designed and built a go kart from a power washer, destroyed and then rebuilt a working car before I even had my driver’s license, designed a real-time residential energy meter (more details below), and developed a travel hot tub."   Hobbies: Amateur astronomy, camping, golfing, hiking, inventing Most memorable vacation: A month-long, cross-country, post-university trip from Vancouver to Kingston, On...