US Army Orders Additional M4 Carbines from Colt & FN

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Colt’s Manufacturing Company LLC, West Hartford, Connecticut, was awarded an $88,607,109 modification (P00008) to contract W15QKN-15-D-0102 for M4 and M4A1 carbines. Work will be performed in West Hartford, Connecticut, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 25, 2020. Fiscal 2019 and 2020 operations and maintenance, Army funds in the amount of $88,607,109 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, New Jersey, is the contracting activity.

FN America LLC, Columbia, South Carolina, was awarded an $88,607,109 modification (P00009) to contract W15QKN-15-D-0072 for M4 and M4A1 carbines. Work will be performed in Columbia, South Carolina, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 25, 2020. Fiscal 2019 and 2020 operations and maintenance, Army funds in the amount of $88,607,709 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, New Jersey, is the contracting activity.
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Unlike Canada and many places who spend years to ponder about mid life fleet ( like the UK and Australia) upgrade and lose sleep over how many jobs have to been added locally because there is only one guy who has a local factory, the US has a big military and they have way more wars. Small arms are nothing, buy new when they are banged up, lost and needed to be replenished. No one is losing sleep - you don't halt replenishment of small items because the new thing is not out yet. The machine needs to keep going.
 
The US Army is involved in conflicts all over the world.
What they learn from it is important to their allies, many of
them use m4 type guns. We are one of them
 
Nice to see Colt back in the game too. I have had both in hand and I thought the FN's were a little nicer finishing, not that such matters when it counts. Apart from that not much to compare.
 
can give you somewhat of insight to the future of small arms, for example if the M4's were being manufactured in a 6.8 cased telescopic, you could be assure that the tech and most likely caliber would catch on and see a lot of development in the civilian shooting world.
 
Steverdb said:
Nice to see Colt back in the game too. I have had both in hand and I thought the FN's were a little nicer finishing, not that such matters when it counts. Apart from that not much to compare.
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Unless I am mistaken the fn uses cold hammer forged barrels that last longer. The colt uses broached barrels. That may have changed recently.
 
bobdbldr said:
I guess Trump gave them the money so they are freshening up the tools of the trade! Jobs!
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Mr Bear said:
This is great news for Colt especially, hopefully will save them from going bankrupt again. Thumbs up, President Trump !
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You should probably be thanking Obama the RFP was originally awarded in 2015 for 5 years.
The only way Trump could have had an effect is if he cancelled it
 
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Janeau said:
The addition of the 88 millions to the contract is Trump admin. Not Obama.
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Mm no, it is a set of 5 1 year contracts stipulating no defined amount of money. The vehicle was in place for the Army to order as they deemed fit. If said vehicle wasn't there they would have had to have a new contract set up and knowing how the govt does contracts you would see the result in about 5-10 years.
If you are going to thank anyone for said year thank the Congress for not reducing their budget since falls under their perview
 
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