(McLean, VA — March 28, 2025) FN America, LLC is happy to announce that the corporate has been awarded a firm-fixed-price IDIQ contract, valued as much as $39,643,953, to produce the U.S. Division of Protection’s (DoD) Protection Logistics Company (DLA) Land and Maritime with barrels for M240 and M249 machine weapons.
“The contract to supply barrels for M240 and M249 machine weapons is a testomony to our partnership with the U.S. DoD, a partnership that dates to the early Eighties,” stated Mark Cherpes, President and CEO for FN America, LLC. “We’re extremely honored to assist the U.S. army with the highest-quality chilly hammer-forged barrels. The sturdiness and accuracy of FN barrels offers our servicemen and ladies with the best and highest performing merchandise out there.”
FN collaborates with and is a key accomplice of DLA Land and Maritime, a fight assist company throughout the U.S. DoD and one of many largest suppliers of spare elements that assist land-based and maritime weapon techniques. DLA Land and Maritime serves over 20,000 clients all through all U.S. army branches, civil businesses and different DoD organizations.
The M240 normal objective machine gun, derived from the FN MAG 58, was adopted by the U.S. army within the late Seventies, and has been in continuous service since being launched. FN has created a number of variants of the M240, together with the M240 coaxial, the M240B, M240L, M240D and M240H fashions. The FN® M249 has been a mainstay all through the U.S. army since 1986 and is presently in service in additional than 30 nations.
All through its historical past, FN has been one of many largest suppliers of small arms to the U.S. army and continues to develop progressive, future expertise. Along with the M240 and its variants, the corporate presently holds contracts for the FN® M249 light-weight machine gun; the FN® MK 46, MK 48, MK 17 and MK 20 SSR for USSOCOM, and varied different contracts.
For extra details about FN’s army product line or present U.S. army contracts, please go to www.fnamerica.com.
About FN
FN America, LLC—the U.S. subsidiary of Belgium-based FN Herstal, S.A.—offers U.S. army, legislation enforcement and industrial clients with an entire vary of state-of-the-art, groundbreaking options developed round small-caliber firearms and related ammunition underneath the FN model identify.
FN Herstal is the Protection & Safety entity of the FN Browning Group that additionally features a Looking & Sports activities Capturing entity (Browning and Winchester Firearms* model names) and operates globally.
FN product traces embrace transportable firearms, much less deadly techniques, built-in weapon techniques for air, land and sea functions, distant weapon stations, small-caliber ammunition, in addition to trendy and cutting-edge options to supply enhanced fight, logistics, upkeep and communication capabilities.
Along with FN America—headquartered in McLean, VA, with manufacturing operations in Columbia, SC—FN Herstal is the mother or father firm of FN UK within the UK and Noptel (optoelectronics) in Finland.
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*Winchester Firearms is a registered trademark owned by the Olin Company.
