During the yearly Association of the United States Army exhibition and conference (AUSA 2026) in Washington, D.C. Acting Secretary of the U.S. Army (Acting Secretary of the Army) Adam Telle presented a imagination of the individual equipment of the American infantry. The key point of the demonstration was a soldier equipped with a recently standardized, 6.8 × 51 mm cartridge firearm [SIG Sauer](https://defence24.pl/industrial/sig-sauer-on-eurosatory-2026-shows-direction-development-gun-gun-future) XM8 (future M8), which was integrated with an extended targeting-night imagination package and a helmet with thermal fusion goggles.
