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Sig Sauer Shows off Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapon Submission Sig Sauer feels they have a dominating submission to the Army's futuristic new Next Generation Squad Weapons program.  Designed to replace 5.56 NATO caliber small arms – M4 series carbines and M249 Squad Automatic Weapons – in frontline use with new platforms sharing a common 6.8mm cartridge, the NGSW program has been underway since 2018. Currently, Sig Sauer is one of three teams, along with Maryland-based AAI Corporation/Textron Systems and Vermont-based General Dynamics-Ordnance & Tactical Systems, vying for the con...

New Hampshire-based Sig Sauer this week announced it has completed the delivery of the company's Next Generation Squad Weapons system to the U.S. Army. As previously reported by Guns.com, Sig is one of three contractors who in 2019 got the nod from the Pentagon to continue with the NGSW program. The sweeping initiative aims to replace the Army's 5.56mm NATO small arms – such as the M4 Carbine and M249 Squad Automatic Weapon. Sig’s program consists of an in-house-designed lightweight high-performance 6.8mm (.277-caliber) hybrid ammunition, NGSW-AR lightweight machine guns, NGSW-R rifles...