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Ron Cohen

Ron Cohen

President and CEO, SIG Sauer, Inc.

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Notable Quotes

On the MG 338’s certification: “For the first time in decades, the U.S. Military certified a new machine gun, ammunition, and suppressor at the same time, bringing innovation, portability, and increased lethality to our ground forces.” ([armyrecognition.com](https://armyrecognition.com/archives/archives-land-defense/land-defense-2020/u-s-socom-receives-new-sig-sauer-mg-338-lightweight-machine-gun-systems?utm_source=openai))

Stories

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

Money Moves

Leads company supplying MG 338 (.338 Norma Magnum) to SOCOM and XM7/XM250 to the Army

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