Defense Brief
Defense Brief
Arie Egozi & Tamir Eshel
SIG-Sauer to Produce the US Army's Next Generation Close Combat Weapons
6 minutes Posted Apr 24, 2022 at 4:00 pm.
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Sig Sauer has won a 10-year contract with the U.S. Army with an initial delivery order worth $20.4 million and a ceiling value of $4.7 billion. Under this contract, the company will supply a family of weapons of up to 250,000 rifles and light machine guns. The XM5 Rifle will replace the M4/M4A1 carbine within the close combat force, and the XM250 Automatic Rifle will replace the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW). Having won the handgun contract in 2017, that makes Sig Sauer the premier supplier of small arms providers to the Army's close combat and special operations forces.