Nightforce Optics have been selected by the United States Special Operations Command and Department of Defense to provide scopes to fulfill the Precision-Variable Power Scopes requirement. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth nearly $54 million will be carried out over a fixed 5 year period.

Nightforce Optics will provide their MIL-SPEC ATACR 5-25×56 Dayscope and their MIL-SPEC ATACR 7-35×56 Long Range Dayscope l. The selection fills out SOCOM’s current push for a new raft of variable, close range and day scope optics. This outlined in the slide, from May 2017, below:

Specifications for the ATACR 7-35 X 56 F1:

Magnification range 7-35x
Focal plane First
Body tube diameter 34 mm
Overall length 16.0 in/406 mm
Mounting length 6.6 in/167 mm
Weight 39.3 oz/1113 g
Click value .250 MOA or .1 MRAD
Internal adjustment range E: 100 MOA/29 MRAD
W: 60 MOA/17 MRAD
Parallax adjustment 11 yd–∞
Eye relief 3.6 in/91 mm
Field of view @ 100 yd/m 7x: 15.0 ft/5.0 m
35x: 3.4 ft/1.1 m
Exit pupil 7x: 6.0 mm
35x: 1.6 mm
Illumination DigIllum™
Elevation feature ZeroStop®
Power Throw Lever Standard

Specifications for the ATACR 5-25 X 56 F1

Magnification range 5-25x
Focal plane First
Body tube diameter 34 mm
Overall length 15.4 in/390 mm
Mounting length 5.9 in/150 mm
Weight 37.6 oz/1066 g
Click value .250 MOA or .1 MRAD
Internal adjustment range E: 120 MOA/35 MRAD
W: 80 MOA/24 MRAD
Parallax adjustment 45 yd–∞
Eye relief 3.5 in/90 mm
Field of view @ 100 yd/m 5x: 18.7 ft/6.2 m
25x: 4.9 ft/1.6 m
Exit pupil 5x: 8.3 mm
25x: 2.3 mm
Illumination DigIllum™
Elevation feature ZeroStop®

Here’s the Department of Defense’s Contract announcement:

Lightforce USA Inc., doing business as Nightforce Optics,* Orofino, Idaho, is awarded a $53,735,930 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a five-year ordering period for Precision-Variable Power Scopes (P-VPS).  This procurement is for the P-VPS Standard and the P-VPS Standard, Long Range.  The P-VPS is a precision direct view optic with continuously variable magnification ranging from 3x to less than or equal to 7x and greater than or equal to 25x continuous zoom for U.S. Special Operations Command.  Work will be performed in Orofino, Idaho, and is expected to be complete by December 2024.  Fiscal 2020 defense procurement funding in the amount of $2,351,124 will be obligated at the time of award and will expire at the end of the current continuing resolution period.  This contract was competitively procured via the Federal Business Opportunities website with two offers received.  The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, Crane, Indiana, is the contracting activity (N00164-20-D-JQ57).

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