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2025 Harry Green Awards Featured Image for A LEGACY OF LEADERSHIP: INSPIRING EXCELLENCE THROUGH SERVICE AND VISION

A Legacy Of Leadership: Inspiring Excellence Through Service And Vision

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Charles Harris - FOTF Featured Image - U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center, Capability Program Executive Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense

Build Career Momentum – Charles Harris

April 20, 2026 in Behind The Frontlines, From the Frontlines

CECOM ASIC Leading The Charge In Low-Code Solutions For The Army

The Army is embracing low-code solutions to rapidly develop and deploy applications with minimal hand-coding, resulting in faster time-to-production, lower costs and greater agility in responding to changing mission requirements.
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April 14, 2026 in Behind The Frontlines, Faces of the Force, SLRP

Build Career Momentum – Charles Harris

Charles Harris draws on a wide range of experience that equip him to handle challenges with confidence in his dual role as general engineer and a contract specialist at the…
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April 13, 2026 in Behind The Frontlines, From the Frontlines

Empowering Global Partnerships: Facilitating Foreign Military Sales For The M139 Volcano System

The M139 Volcano System is a rapidly deployable anti-vehicular mine dispensing system that counters enemy mobility and provides strategic advantages in diverse operational scenarios.
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Charles Harris - FOTF Featured Image - U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center, Capability Program Executive Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense

Build Career Momentum – Charles Harris

Lt. Col. Brandon A. Pye FOTF Featured Image

Career Path Pivot – Lt. Col. Brandon A. Pye

The Lower Tier Interceptors Product Office, PAE Fires, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, received the David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award. This award recognizes organizations that demonstrate exemplary innovation, efficiency and best practices in delivering products to the warfighter.

Celebrating Exceptional Achievements: 2025 Warfighting Acquisition Awards

ACQUISITION 360°

A comprehensive look at the end-to-end acquisition life cycle.

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Workers pack completed M1 Garand rifles for shipment at the Springfield Armory (c. 1940s), emblematic of the Ordnance Department’s mass-production “arsenal of democracy” that armed U.S. forces at scale.

History of the Army Acquisition Workforce and its Ongoing Transformation

RESPONSIBLE SPEED

BLACK HAWK ABOVE AND BEYOND

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BEEN THERE, DONE THAT

Insights from past Acquisition leaders and comparisons of historical and current technologies.

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An exercise to experience

Been there, done that: Beware the rush to failure

Been There, Done That: Think ready, be ready

Been There, Done That: Want A High Return?

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FACES OF THE FORCE

Highlighting the Army Acquisition Workforce and their contributions.

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Charles Harris - FOTF Featured Image - U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center, Capability Program Executive Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense

Build Career Momentum – Charles Harris

Lt. Col. Brandon A. Pye FOTF Featured Image

Career Path Pivot – Lt. Col. Brandon A. Pye

Sgt. 1st Class Jacqueline J. Cole - FOTF Banner Image

Collaboration Counts – Sgt. 1st Class Jacqueline J. Cole

(LEFT) Profile picture of Andersen. (RIGHT) One of the indirect fire development and production funding lines Andersen directly manages is the 155 mm M777 Howitzer, shown firing M795 High Explosive Projectiles.

Foster Positivity – Danielle C. Andersen

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FROM THE FRONTLINES

A look at acquisition in action.

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Members of the CECOM ASIC Center’s low-code solutions team help the Army rapidly develop and deploy applications. From left are team members Stephen Donahue, Brian Simpson, Meghann Johnson, Machon Alston and Brandon Long.

CECOM ASIC Leading The Charge In Low-Code Solutions For The Army

A military vehicle demonstrates the M139 Volcano system’s precision deployment capabilities during a live-fire exercise.

Empowering Global Partnerships: Facilitating Foreign Military Sales For The M139 Volcano System

The AEVEX Atlas 600 LE is deployed during the LE-SR SUD held at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, in Washington, in August 2025.

Launched Effects Program Accelerates Battlefield Reach

U.S. Army Soldiers with the 25th Infantry Division Artillery receive a fire mission at the brigade tactical operation center as part of their experimentation to integrate NGC2 systems at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Feb. 24, 2026.

From Reform To Results: Early Momentum From Army Acquisition Transformation

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PROGRAM OF RECORD

Discussing the process of conceptualizing, developing, acquiring and decommissioning programs.

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The FLRAA team shows Col. Matthew Scher, the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade commanding officer, what his Soldiers can expect from the FLRAA in the 3rd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment hangar on September 9, 2024. A tiltrotor aircraft, FLRAA will have the hybrid capabilities of both planes and helicopters. (Photo by Spc. Charles Clark, 25th Infantry Division)

TWICE AS FAR, TWICE AS FAST

In a simulation, Navy Lt. Anh Nguyen, a master’s student who is currently evaluating the use of the IVAS augmented reality software, initiates treatment of a wounded warfighter by displaying virtual hands that provide previously recorded guidance in the procedure. (Photo courtesy of Christoph Leuze, Nakamir Inc.)

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SEPARATION FROM SERVICE

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