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Col. Jason Bohannon

Col. Jason Bohannon

Project Manager, Soldier Lethality, U.S. Army PEO Soldier

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Notable Quotes

On NGSW fielding: the Army is “delivering on schedule, as promised,” he told reporters as XM7 and XM250 were issued to the 101st Airborne Division. ([armytimes.com](https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2024/03/29/101st-airborne-first-army-unit-to-field-next-generation-squad-weapons/?utm_source=openai))

Stories

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

Money Moves

Leads Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapon fielding, which shapes SOCOM’s caliber and weapon choices

U.S. Special Operations Command has cancelled its in-house Lightweight Machine Gun–Assault (LMG‑A) prototyping project and transferred the effort to the Navy’s Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane Division, according to a December 7, 2025 special notice and subsequent reporting on December 8. 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 that Navy Crane’s contracting office will restart the program.

Updated Dec 11, 2025