In January, 2008, the US Marine Corps Systems Command in Quantico, Virginia, awarded a firm-fixed-price contract to Dynamic Flowform Corp. to produce the 60mm Lightweight Company Mortar System and 81mm Lightweight Mortar System cannon assemblies and spare components.  In 2001, Dynamic began collaborating with the Marines and the US Army to design, flowform prototypes and then test them.  This project was featured in a Special Operations article last year.  Production of these redesigned mortar tubes commenced in January, 2008.