Federal will not be operating LC after the middle of this year. The new contract was awarded to Winchester. This may be a bad thing as Winchester ammo is normally priced higher than Federal. The issue is the softness of the civilian market. The operator has to buy all excess capacity beyond military needs. Under the current contract, Federal had to get Hornady and Winchester to take some of the production since they couldn't sell it all themselves. That's why you see the Hornady Frontier brand loaded in LC case and more Winchester 5.56 ammo. It should prove interesting.