In April 2022, the United States Army awarded firearms maker Sig Sauer a $4.5 billion contract to produce the Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW), a modular firearms system that consisted of the ...

More than 20,000 hours of user feedback from about 1,000 Soldiers were collected during 18 Soldier touch points and more than 100 technical tests have shaped the design of the NGSW system.