Grendel as a Universal Infantry Cartridge

[Tony Williams]

I omitted the last sentence in your quote ("The recommendation of the committee was to have LSAT refocus on a caliber more effective than 5.56mm.") because that part I found confusing. With funding eliminated, how can they work on a machine gun, regardless of caliber?

I believe that under the current contract LSAT development is specifically focused on 5.56mm, so I suspect that the contract (and its associated funding stream) will need to be cancelled and replaced by another one if they're going to change the calibre.