
The Army on Wednesday broke ground on a facility that will be dedicated to producing a new family of small caliber ammunition for its next-generation rifles, adding capacity and another competency to the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant (LCAAP). The 6.8mm ammunition will be fired from the Next Generation Squad Weapons, the XM7 Rifle and the XM250 Automatic Rifle, that are replacing the legacy M4 Rifle and M249 Squad Automatic Weapon used by close combat forces. The 450,000 square foot…