A FUTURE SYSTEM: Pvt. Bailey Ward, 87th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, fires an M320 grenade launcher during a qualification event at Fort Stewart, Georgia, Nov. 8, 2023. The Precision Grenadier…
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FUTURE IDEATORS: Matthew Willis, Ph.D., speaks at Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Conference, Feb. 11, 2023, in Maryland. (Photo by Austin Thomas, Army…
A TRAINED ARMY: Spc. Griffin Wisehart, an infantryman assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 168th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, loads a round into an…
NECESSARY PREPARATIONS: Soldiers with Third Platoon, “Blackhorse” Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division wear upgraded Integrated Visual Augmentation System goggles while sitting…
by Brandon Pollachek, PEO IEW&S ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (June 4, 2021)—A change of responsibility and retirement ceremony conducted virtually on May 26, marked the closing of…
TESTING HEATS UP: After conducing cold-weather tests in Alaska, the IVAS team headed to Puerto Rico for testing in a tropical environment. (Photo by Courtney Bacon, PEO Soldier)…
EYES WIDE OPEN: The ENVG-B uses fused white phosphor and thermal technologies. It delivers dual-tubes with improved image intensification, resolution and fused thermal overlay for unmatched visibility at night. (Photo…
COMMAND/ORGANIZATION: U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center, Director for Acquisition Career Management, Strategy and Policy Branch TITLE: Functional Area 51 proponency officer YEARS OF SERVICE IN WORKFORCE: 8 YEARS…
by Susan L. Follett FORT BELVOIR, Va. (October 25, 2019)—The Sub Compact Weapon Team, part of the Program Executive Office (PEO) for Soldier, has received the David Packard Excellence in…
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF ACQUISITION CAREER MANAGEMENT CRAIG A. SPISAK Supporting the future force by building a more technically savvy Army Acquisition Corps. You can only get out of a…
The third in a series, ASA(ALT) at Work, which looks into ASA(ALT) organizations, what they do and where they do it. PEO Soldier’s mission is to rapidly deliver agile, adaptive,…
Over the course of her 17-year career, Susan Fung’s perspective has gone from micro to macro as she moved from the technical and developmental side of technologies to keep Soldiers safe to the bigger, more strategic aspects of project management and integrating those technologies into a Soldier platform.
Adaptive squad architecture will assist in identifying, defining and maintaining interfaces, which will enable the squad to be managed as an integrated platform.
COMMAND/ORGANIZATION: Project Manager for Soldier Warrior; Program Executive Office for Soldier TITLE: Project manager YEARS OF SERVICE IN WORKFORCE: 18 YEARS OF MILITARY SERVICE: 26 (including almost two years as…
TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT, Pa. — A mission here to provide situational awareness for warfighters during combat operations reached a major milestone recently with the completion of the 100,000th Nett Warrior…
Nett Warrior has already been deployed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan By Kris Osborn The Army is upgrading and more widely deploying a cutting-edge battlefield force-tracking technology for…
By Col. Michael E. Sloane and Mr. Charles Meixner Foreign military sales (FMS) are a team sport. Success requires a great deal of coordination and contributions from the Army acquisition…
FROM THE ARMY ACQUISITION EXECUTIVE THE HONORABLE HEIDI SHYU Investing in S&T to confront the future threat In October 2014, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command rolled out the latest…
By PEO Soldier FORT BELVOIR, Va. (July 8, 2015) — The Army moved closer to releasing its long-awaited solicitation for a new, modern handgun system when it hosted a fourth…
PEO Soldier and DLA devised a way to upgrade the body armor vest for just half the cost of replacement, potentially saving tens of millions By MAJ Chris Getter It’s…
By C. Todd Lopez WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Aug. 9, 2013) — The XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement weapon system is now in development. But by this time next year,…
By JD Leipold WASHINGTON (Army News Service, July 19, 2012) — Today, both male and female Soldiers wear body armor that has been designed for men. But the Army plans…
By C. Todd Lopez WASHINGTON (Army News Service, June 15, 2010) — The Army christened the new Ground Soldier System June 14 with a name that honors World War II…
By Debi Dawson, PEO Soldier FORT BELVOIR, Va. (Army News Service, Oct. 15, 2009) — The Army is poised to introduce a plate-carrier vest to provide Soldiers more lightweight gear…
By Debi Dawson, PEO Soldier FORT BELVOIR, Va. (Army News Service, April 10, 2009) — Col. Patricia Ryan expected an uphill climb last spring when, as a lieutenant colonel, she…
By Debi Dawson, PEO Soldier FORT BELVOIR, Va. (Army News Service, Oct. 15, 2009) — The Army is poised to introduce a plate-carrier vest to provide Soldiers more lightweight gear…
By Tiffany Nabors, The Bayonet FORT BENNING, Ga. — By the time 2nd Lt. Charles Lesperance, 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, handed his static line to the jumpmaster, March 16,…
By Debi Dawson, PEO Soldier FORT BELVOIR, Va. (Army News Service, April 2, 2007) – The Army continues to upgrade body armor to increase protection from bullets and fragments, and…
By Pfc. Jerome Bishop, Army News Service The first group of 35 remotely-operated weapons for mounting on top of Humvees arrived in Iraq recently and the systems were divided among…
By PEO Soldier Activated in April 2002, PEO Soldier develops, acquires, fields and sustains affordable, integrated, state-of-the-art equipment to improve Soldier dominance in Army operations today and in the future….
By Kris Osborn WASHINGTON (Sept. 28, 2012) — The U.S. Army is preparing to conduct a second Forward Operational Assessment of its XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement airburst weapon system….
By Steve Stark FORT BELVOIR, Va. (Sept. 3, 2014) — As the result of budget constraints and the cost of print production, the Army has not printed its traditional coffee…
Leveraging students’ engineering expertise to bridge the gap between Soldier and system By Col. Michael E. Sloane, MAJ Toby Birdsell and Capt.(P) Tom Beyerl Project Manager Soldier Sensors and…
By Dawn Arden, Leonard Wood FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (May 16, 2014) — More than 20 Fort Leonard Wood military police officers tested the regiment’s newest body armor vests, last…
By Spc. Danielle Gregory FORT SILL, Okla. – A new Army Combat Uniform with special consideration to the female form is now at Fort Sill, and it is being…
