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Product Manager Individual Weapons Briefing to
NDIA
PM Individual Weapons Activated 4 November
2002 LTC Matthew T. Clarke Product Manager
Individual Weapons [phone] mclarke_at_pica.arm
y.mil
12 May 03
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Product Manager Individual Weapons
PM Individual Weapons LTC Matthew T.Clarke DEPUTY
PM Barbara Muldowney Secretary June Miller
R. Lindquist (C ) Non-Co-Located (Liaison) DOT,
Ft. Benning, GA DSN 835-3848
APM Integration O-4 Vacant
Business Manager Jim Lilly
Program Analyst Deb Tully
Legacy Systems Div Chief Tom Miskovich
ASARC Engineering Larry Artman (C)
Future Systems Div Chief Dave Ahmad
XM29 Div Chief Andrew Cline
EVM Engineering Chris Owens (C)
Product Mgmt Engr Tom Vass
Weapon Engineer Kevin Bauer
Weapon Engineer Vincent Barbato
System Test Tom Hartmann
Program Support Mike Tauber (C)
Product Mgmt Engr Vacant
Test Engineer Nelson Pineda
Fire Control Engineer Bob Volz
Product Management Engineer- Supportability
Vacant
Ammo Engineer- Ralph Mazeski
Engineer- QA Vacant
Log Mgmt Specialist Jaxon Teck
Electronics Engineer Tom Howell
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Current Programs
PROCUREMENT WPN Production Programs 6.
M16A2/A4 Rifle A. M16A4 Mod Line 7. M4
Carbine A. M4 Mod Line 8. M68 Close Combat
Optic
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Individual Weapons
Today
Tomorrow

• 25mm Ammo
• Low Velocity
• Airburst
• Armor Piercing
• Thermobaric
• 40mm Ammo

M4 CARBINE
XM8 Carbine
XM320 40mm Grenade Launcher
M16A4 RIFLE
XM25 Air Burst Weapon
M16/M203
XM29 Integrated Airburst Weapon System

• Thermobaric

CIRCA (1963)
Starting (2005)
Lethality Leap Ahead Achievable in 24/36 Months
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XM29 Spiral Development
Old Total System Blocked Development
Block 1
Block 2
Block 3
New Spiral Development with Incremental Fielding
XM25 with Air Bursting Ammo (25mm)
XM104 Target Acquisition Fire Control System
XM8 Carbine
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XM 25 Concept
XM29 Subsystem Spin Offs
XM25 with Air Bursting Ammo (25mm)
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XM8 Future Combat Rifle
Heavy Barrel
Heavy Barrel
Multiple
Multiple
barrels
barrels
Long Barrel
Long Barrel
converted at
converted at
Day / Night Sight
Day / Night Sight
unit level
unit level
Quickly
Quickly
TBD
TBD
convertible
convertible
Compact Barrel
Compact Barrel
Integrated lasers
Integrated lasers
Standard Barrel
Standard Barrel
Integrated Accessory
Integrated Accessory
Attachment System
Attachment System
Improved
Improved
telescopic butt
telescopic butt
stock
stock
Bipod for
Bipod for
sharpshooter
sharpshooter
variant
variant
Quick attach
Quick attach
Quick attach
Quick attach
40mm (XM320)
40mm (XM320)
forward hand
forward hand
High Capacity Magazine
Changeable
Changeable
grip
grip
lower receiver
lower receiver
Reliability
Reliability
allowing
allowing
Improved
Improved
conversion to
conversion to
Magazine
Magazine
7.62mm
7.62mm
Modularity/Reliability/Lethality in a Lighter
Package
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XM29 Integrated Airburst Weapon System
PRIMARY WEAPON HEAB SECONDARY WEAPON 5.56MM
KE TARGET ACQUISITION/FIRE CONTROL

• Dual Munition System

• High Explosive Air Bursting (HEAB)
• 5.56mm Kinetic Energy

• Bursting Munition Concept

• Commonality with XM307
• 25mm

• Target Acquisition/Fire Control (TA/FC)

• Direct View Optics
• Uncooled Thermal Sight
• Compass (Bearing, Cant, Tilt)
• Laser Range Finder
• Fuze Setter
• Ballistic Computer
• Display

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Airburst Munitions Firings
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