The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, will acquire lightweight, semi-automatic rifles, a solicitation released via the US government’s Federal Business Opportunities website on 25 Jun revealed.

NASA Shared Services Center posted a notice for procurement of a lightweight, 5.56×45mm, magazine-fed, gas-operated semi-automatic rifle designed to perform multiple uses under various conditions.

This rifle, according to notice, shall be versatile as well as reliable, and shall be engineered for a wide variety of applications, to include military/law enforcement. The rifle shall be easy to accessorize and deploy the following characteristics:

wooglin wrote: Wed Jul 03, 2019 8:00 pm If we’d been funding them better over the years they’d already have developed a ray gun.

khlavkalash wrote: Thu Jul 04, 2019 1:30 am That's a really long description/spec sheet to avoid saying AR-15.

NegativeApproach wrote:

khlavkalash wrote: Thu Jul 04, 2019 1:30 am That's a really long description/spec sheet to avoid saying AR-15.

To be fair, it could be a Tavor, or some other 5.56 design.