The Army has picked 6 companies to make prototypes for its new automatic rifle

US Marine Corps Textron is gambling that its 14 years of work on case-telescoped weapons research will satisfy the US Army's ambitious requirements for an M249 squad automatic weapon replacement. The service recently awarded Textron and five other gunmakers a contract to build prototype weapons for its Next Generation Squad Automatic Rifle program.See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW WATCH: The Marine Corps is testing a machine gun-wielding robot controlled with just a tablet and a ...