Army Awards SIG NGSW Contract

[m796rider]

"In the first time in history, maybe, certainly the first time I've ever experienced it, you had the Department of Defense, adopt and field a cartridge and that cartridge had not been commercially available."

Um, like the .223/5.56 and the 6.8 SPC? Geez. Perhaps people shouldn't talk about things they know nothing about.

A very sloppy choice of words. It appears they have 'fielded' the round. Certainly they haven't 'adopted' it.

Not the entirety of DoD or any service branch as a Program of Record. But SOCOM for sure is using 6ARC and continues to have very wide latitude in terms of procuring small arms and ammunition. This is in contrast to 6.8SPC, which was never even fielded (as in at the unit level and above, vs individuals bringing their own personal weapons into the mix).