{"id":52814,"date":"2017-11-29T18:46:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T18:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/11\/29\/army-cancels-short-term-rifle-replacement-program\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:51:17","slug":"army-cancels-short-term-rifle-replacement-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2017\/11\/29\/army-cancels-short-term-rifle-replacement-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Army cancels short-term rifle replacement program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A short-lived program to find an interim replacement for the M4\/M16 rifle for front line soldiers is officially dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army\u2019s Interim Combat Service Rifle program\u2019s funds have been reallocated to its longer-term goal to create the Next Generation Squad Weapon, according to an Army posting on the federal business opportunities website this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe NGSW will be a long term solution to meet the identified capability gap instead of the ICSR, which was an interim solution,\u201d according to the website post<\/a>.
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The program, launched in August, originally sought up to 50,000 commercially available, 7.62 mm rifles to bridge the reported small arms overmatch and new 5.56 mm-resistant body armor being fielded by adversaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Army Times and other media outlets reported that the program had been canceled in September, but Brig. Gen. Brian Cummings, head of Program Executive Office Soldier, told Military.com at the time that \u201cthe decision has not been made\u201d to cancel the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\t