Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane)

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SOCOM scraps its lightweight machine gun–assault effort and hands it to Navy Crane

As of May 2026: Receiving authority to restart the LMG‑A effort through its contracting office; long‑time SOCOM small‑arms engineering partner

U.S. Special Operations Command cancelled its in-house Lightweight Machine Gun–Assault (LMG‑A) prototyping project and transferred it to the Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane Division, per a December 7, 2025 special notice and December 8 reporting. The SOF Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics–Kinetic Requirements office (SOF AT&L‑KR) stated that it will "no longer be moving forward with the prototyping effort," and Navy Crane's contracting office will restart the program.

Updated May 10