Manager Ground Soldier team in sup- port of the Nett Warrior program, and to PEO Soldier’s Product Manager Air War- rior team in support of the Air Soldier System program.
The future of Soldier Power will be dynamic. Ultimately it will reduce Sol- dier load, increase mission duration, and reduce logistics.
Gen John R. Allen, Commander of
the International Security Assis-
tance Force – Afghanistan and U.S. Forces – Afghanistan,
recently wrote,
“Operational Energy in the battlespace is about improving combat effectiveness. It’s about increasing our forces’ endurance, being more lethal, and reducing the num- ber of men and women risking their lives moving fuel.”
SMART USAGE
The Soldier Power Manager calculates available and required power and allocates power to loads according to availability and priority. It also allows multiple power generation sources to be hooked up simultaneously, using energy based on a predetermined set of energy costs. (Photo courtesy of Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center.)
receive the Soldier Power Manager, the REPPS kit, and the SWIPES with a con- formal battery.
MAJ Mark Owens, APM Soldier Power, just provided the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment with new equipment training on this Soldier Power gear. The training was well received by the unit, which
immediately utility of understood this equipment. Some of
the the
Soldiers took it a step further, envisioning scenarios on the battlefield in which the equipment would be a combat multiplier. Owens’ next stop is Fort Bragg, NC, to train elements of the 1/82.
CONCLUSION Soldier Power spans the entire acquisition community. It is a challenge to ensure that
solutions and developmental efforts are not duplicated. The APM Soldier Power office intends to look at the capability sets in years to come and determine what the Army is planning to field, in an attempt to ensure that future systems’ support strategies are consistent with the Army’s Operational Energy Campaign Plan.
Efforts are also underway to ensure that each PEO is informed of the entire Soldier Power portfolio. The challenge is
benefit
to identify the programs from these
individual program managers
The APM Soldier Power office will continue to work with industry and the Army laboratories to identify technologies that are lighter and more efficient. The Army is directing resources to provide and improve Soldier Power to achieve its short- and long-term goals.
For more information, go to https://www.
peosoldier.army.mil.
STEVEN MAPES is Project Director
for the Army’s Soldier Power program within
Program Executive holds a B.S. that could
capabilities before estab-
lish their own solutions. The APM Soldier Power office is provid- ing Soldier Power capability to the REF, to the Joint Tactical Radio Sys- tem team, to PEO Soldier’s Product
Office Sol-
dier’s Project Manager Soldier Warrior. He
in program manage-
ment from Excelsior University of New York and is a member of the U.S. Army Acquisition Corps. Mapes is an active mem- ber of NATO’s Land Capability Group 1 (Chairman, Soldier Power) and serves on the operational energy working group for the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy, and Environment.
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