ARMY AL&T
WRAPPING THINGS UP
Julee Johnson, production leader on Pine Bluff Arsenal’s textile line, works on seam sealing a Chemical Protective Patient Wrap. (Photo by Rachel Selby, Pine Bluff Arsenal Public Affairs)
to set up and optimize the facility and add items to Pine Bluff’s production portfolio.
NETWORKING After discovering the article “Tread Level Green” in the Septem- ber 2020 issue of Army AL&T magazine, Pine Bluff realized the need to open its aperture to include other textiles not part of the CBRN family. Since the infrastructure was already in place, Pine Bluff could simply scale its existing model to include commodities from the Program Executive Office (PEO) for Soldier. Pine Bluff cold-called all the authors of the article and started a dialogue to make sure they were aware of these new capabilities, and thus a new working relationship was born. Tey were unaware of the work Pine Bluff had done to support CBRN textiles and were eager to learn more about what could be done to support their portfolio.
In April 2022, Pine Bluff Arsenal was designated by the Depart- ment of the Army as a Center for Industrial and Technical Excellence (CITE) for Textile Manufacturing, per 10 U.S.C. 2474. Tis is the Arsenal’s third CITE designation, having received designations for Chemical and Biological Defense
Equipment in 2005, and Smoke Ammunition in 2017. Pine Bluff is the only installation within Joint Munitions Command to have three CITE designations.
Te Army uses CITE designations to recognize the unique capa- bilities of an Army depot-level activity or military arsenal facility as a mechanism to align workload to the appropriate maintenance and manufacturing facilities.
And, as an Army Working Capital Fund (AWCF) site, Pine Bluff receives effectively zero dollars in appropriated funding. Te 13,500 acre “city” is sustained through directly funded production projects. Te more meaningful workload Pine Bluff can acquire, the more solvent it is. As most textiles use similar equipment to produce, there are little to no start-up equipment costs with exploring and establishing new workload.
STATE OF THE ART Current textile manufacturing operations at Pine Bluff occupy approximately 8,000 square feet of industrial space. Te space uses the latest in textile technology, including a Gerber Para- gon automated high-ply cutting system using the industrial
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