A CUT ABOVE THE REST


PINE BLUFF STUFF


Some new textile items have recently been added to Pine Bluff’s portfolio as the result of the PEO Soldier connection, including the Improved Ghillie System (IGS) and the Army Physical Fitness Uniform-Maternity.


Other CBRN products produced at Pine Bluff include:


• Chemical Protective Patient Wrap, a carbon- impregnated textile, which provides a way to safely transport wounded Soldiers in chemical-biological compromised environments. Pine Bluff entered into an interagency service agreement with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity to produce this item.


• Integrated Footwear System, a sock and liner system worn under normal combat footwear to provide chem-bio protection to the foot. It is issued as a component of the Joint Service Lightweight Integrated Suit Technology or JSLIST, and the Joint Protective Aircrew Ensemble to meet chem-bio foot- wear protection requirements of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps Aviation and U.S. Special Oper- ations Command, and requires Gore Certification to produce.


• Cloth face coverings, non-medical personal protec- tive equipment used to provide protection during


the COVID-19 pandemic. Approximately 78,000 were produced for AMC’s civilian population. This effort was highlighted in the Winter 2020 edition of Army AL&T.


MADE FOR MATERNITY


The Army Physical Fitness Uniform-Maternity is one of the new textile items recently added to Pine Bluff’s portfolio as the result of the PEO Soldier connection. (Photo by Rachel Selby, Pine Bluff Arsenal Public Affairs)


standard AccuMark pattern design soft- ware, advanced seam-sealing equipment and new embroidering equipment with the ability to sew six digital patterns simultaneously. Staffing includes 14 trained operators with nearly 250 years of combined sewing experience, and three trained quality control specialists. Tese are exactly the types of equipment and processes needed to ensure the design of new textile products are ready for full-rate production.


Donna Cox, a senior systems engineer in the Product Manager for Soldier Cloth- ing and Individual Equipment/Soldier


Survivability (PM SCIE), said that a rela- tionship with the arsenal was established to produce initial field assets for the Improved Ghillie System (IGS). Te IGS is a new and improved sniper concealment system that is replacing the legacy Flame Resistant Ghillie Suit, which focused on flame-resistant capabilities at the expense of concealment capabilities, and ulti- mately did not fulfill the sniper’s needs. As a result, the user redefined and vali- dated new requirements and the team began development of the new IGS.


Pine Bluff “has already provided a mock- up design for PM SCIE and will provide


product demonstration models in the coming months. After that, Pine Bluff Arsenal will provide the initial opera- tional quantities of both the IGS kit and the optional items to PM SCIE for field- ing to the sniper schools,” Cox said. Te new ghillie suit kit consists of a jacket, hood, leg drape, head drape and jute yarn. Te additional optional authorized items include the ghillie hat, skid plate and equipment drape.


VALUE ADDED According to Cox, the arsenal will also assist in refining the patterns, optimiz- ing manufacturing and documenting the


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