
Sig Sauer has a green light to build and deliver the Army’s new XM17 modular handgun system under a $580 million contract the company won in January.The Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Monday denied a protest by Georgia-based handgun manufacturer GLOCK, Inc., which asserted its pistol is a superior replacement for the Berretta M9.GLOCK announced its loss in a press release on June 6. A GAO spokesman confirmed that the case was closed on June 5 and that GLOCK’s protest…