PEO Soldier

PEO Soldier
PEO Soldier
	PEO Soldier emblem
Active	2002–present
Country	United States
Branch	U.S. Army
Type	Program executive office
Role	Developing equipment and weapons for US soldiers
Part of	United States Army Acquisition Corps
Garrison/HQ	Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Website	peosoldier.army.mil
Commanders
Program executive officer	Brig. Gen. Troy Denomy
Insignia
PEO Soldier logo (2002)

The Program Executive Office Soldier (PEO Soldier), sometimes PEO-Soldier, or Team Soldier is a program executive office of the United States Army that is responsible for rapid prototyping, procurement, and fielding of equipment for soldiers.

History

PM Soldier

In June 1992, the Project Manager for Soldier Systems (PM-Soldier Systems, shortened as PM-Soldier or PM Soldier, alternatively PM, Soldier) was officially chartered.^[1]^[2]^[3] The 'Systems' in PM Soldier Systems was frequently omitted, likely for better compatibility with TSM Soldier (TRADOC Systems Manager Soldier). TSM Soldier was TRADOC's counterpart to PM Soldier.^{[citation needed]}

PM Soldier's purpose was to centralize the life-cycle management of soldier system-related materiel acquisition.^[1]^[4] Its role was to manage the cost, schedule, and performance factors associated with the development, acquisition, and fielding of materiel for the soldier.^[5] In June 1993, Colonel William T. Meadows was assigned as the Project Manager-Soldier.^[6]

On 29 September 1994, Project Manager, Soldier was assigned to Headquarters, U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC).^[6] The mission of PM Soldier was to modernize the soldier as a total system. All elements of a soldier system must work together to achieve a balance among the soldier's fighting capabilities (lethality, mobility, communications and control, survivability, and sustainability). This applies to the development and acquisition of items the individual soldier wears, consumes or carries in a tactical environment. The soldier system also includes non-tactical clothing and individual equipment, and dress clothing.^[6] PM Soldier also provided centralized project management of the Soldier System program within AMC.^[6]

PM Soldier was responsible for the coordination of concept formulation and program functions that include PEOs/PMs (program executive officers/program managers), MACOMs (Major Commands), and other services. PM Soldier served as the AMC Executive Agent for the Soldier Enhancement Program (SEP).^[6]

PM Soldier was also established as a Separate Reporting Activity (SRA) under the Commander, Army Materiel Command, effective 1 October 1994.^[6] PM Soldier reorganized into five teams and a Logistics Management Office in September 1994.^[6]

In 1994, PM Soldier was comprised from the following teams:^[6]

Clothing and Individual Equipment
Land Warrior
Crew Warrior
Soldier Enhancement Program
Business Management

PEO Soldier

PEO Soldier was stood up in April 2002.^[7] The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology re-designated PM Soldier to PEO Soldier (Program Executive Office Soldier), or Team Soldier, on 7 June 2002, at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.^[8]^[9]^[10] The change was made to address concerns surrounding the Land Warrior program’s complexity and the need for additional oversight of the program. This elevated the top-level management from an O-6/Colonel level to an O-7/Brigadier General level.^[10]

The first commander of PEO Soldier was Brigadier General James R. Moran.^[7]^[11]

Organization

Project Manager Soldier Protection and Individual Equipment (PM SPIE) is a division responsible for the development and implementation of advanced soldier protection products as well as comfortable uniforms to enhance mission effectiveness, and improved parachute systems.

Product Manager Soldier Protective Equipment (PdM SPE) is tasked with developing and deploying force protection equipment designed to defeat ballistic and fragmentation threats in theater. PM SPE is responsible for providing body armor, helmets, and other gear that reduces the risk of serious injury.

Product Manager Soldier Clothing and Individual Equipment (PdM SCIE) supports soldiers in operational environments by providing safe, durable, and operationally effective individual and unit equipment. PM SCIE focuses on enhancing survivability through the use of technologically advanced tactical and environmental protective clothing, individual chemical protective gear, and personnel parachutes, as well as other airdrop equipment.

Project Manager Soldier Lethality (PM SL) aims to enhance soldiers' capabilities by improving current systems and developing next-generation weapons technology. It prioritizes the equipping of soldiers with weapon systems, ammunition, and associated target acquisition and fire-control products, both in the present and the future.

Product Manager Crew Served Weapons (PdM CSW) is responsible for research and development of current and future light to heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, small arms ammunition, remote weapons stations, and related target acquisition/fire control products.
Product Manager Individual Weapons (PdM IW) is responsible for research and development of current rifles, carbines, pistols, shotguns, grenade launchers, small arms ammunition, and related target acquisition/fire control products.
Product Manager Next Generation Weapons (PdM NGW) is responsible for research and development of future squad-level weapons, ammunition, and related target acquisition/fire control products.

Project Manager Soldier Sensors and Lasers (PM SSL) provides soldiers with improved lethality, mobility, and survivability in all weather and visibility conditions. Soldier-borne sensors and lasers enhance a soldier's ability to see in all battlefield and lighting conditions, to acquire objects of military significance before detection and to target threat objects accurately for engagement by soldiers or guided munitions. These systems provide critical, on-the-ground direct support to U.S. forces.

Product Manager Soldier Maneuver Sensors (PdM SMS) provides soldiers with products for enhanced vision, improved targeting, and greater lethality.
Product Manager Soldier Precision Targeting Devices (PdM SPTD) develops and fields systems that accurately locate and designate targets for engagement with precision munitions.

Project Manager Soldier Warrior (PM SWAR) supports soldiers through the acquisition of integrated soldier system. Current systems include Land Warrior, Ground Soldier, Mounted Soldier, and Air Warrior. PM SWAR develops and integrates components into complete systems designed to increase combat effectiveness, decrease combat load, and improve mission flexibility.

Product Manager Air Warrior (PdM AW) integrates all aviation life support and mission equipment into an ensemble that improves the combat effectiveness of the Army aircrew member. This system leverages several joint service technology efforts to create a modular system that increases situational awareness and freedom of movement at the flight controls, enhances mobility to safely operate aircraft systems, reduces physiological stress, facilitates aircraft entry and exit, and provides survival gear in the event of a downed aircraft over land or water.
Product Manager Ground Soldier (PdM GS) provides unprecedented situational awareness and battle command through the current system called Land Warrior (LW) and the future system Ground Soldier Ensemble (GSE). Digital imagery and GPS locations provided by LW/GSE enable thorough mission planning, ramp-side convoy briefings, and on-the-fly changes during missions for high-value targets (HVTs). LW/GSE allows teams, squads, and platoons to pinpoint the location of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), cells, or HVTs with improved speed and precision. LW/GSE enhances dismounted soldiers survivability by rapidly disseminating locations of suspected enemy IEDs and snipers. LW/GSE also helps prevent fratricide by providing locations of mounted forces and dismounted soldiers.
Product Director Soldier Systems Integration (PdD SSI) provides cross-product soldier hardware systems integration support to enable the PEO at the enterprise level to visualize, understand, and deliberately evolve the Soldier system into a mission-tailorable set of capability modules that function as a seamless, integrated suite and to memorialize the results of a deliberate, collaborative systems engineering process. Product Director SSI oversees the Tactical Communication and Protective System (TCAPS) program, the Soldier Power program, and administers the Soldier Enhancement Program (SEP) on behalf of PEO Soldier. "The mission of SEP is to identify and evaluate commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS), government, off-the-shelf (GOTS), non-developmental items (NDI), individual weapons, munitions, optics, combat clothing, individual equipment, water supply, shelters, communication and navigational aids which can be adopted and provided to soldiers."^[12]

References

^ ^a ^b Jette, Bruce D.; Brower, Bill (July–August 1999). "The Soldier as a System | Army RD&A (research, development and acquisition) magazine". google.com/books. Acquisition Career Management Office. pp. 3-4 / pdf p. 218-219. PB 70-99-4. Retrieved 20 June 2025. The Project Manager for Soldier Systems (PM-Soldier) was officially chartered in June 1992. Creation of the PM-Soldier fulfilled the senior Army leadership's long-standing desire to structure an activity to centralize the life-cycle management of soldier system materiel acquisition. Since 1992, PM-Soldier's fundamental mission to modernize the individual soldier has remained constant, although the quantity and complexity of the programs managed by PM-Soldier have increased as we deploy the soldier onto the digital battlefield. (___enter___); PM-Soldier is responsible for all combat, life support, ballistic, and environmental protective items worn or carried by soldiers for individual use in a tactical environment as well as nontactical clothing and equipment such as Army dress uniforms and physical fitness uniforms. A distinguishing feature of PM-Soldier is the range of quantities procured. Many items of clothing are procured for the total Army, and other items, such as the Self Contained Toxicological Environmental Protective Overgarment, are procured in very limited quantities for specific missions.
^ Mangual, J. A. (July–August 2000). "SBCCOM's Contributions to Transforming the Force | Army AL&T (acquisition, logistics, and technology) magazine". google.com/books. Acquisition Career Management Office. pp. 23 / pdf p. 168. Retrieved 20 June 2025. PM, Soldier (enter); PM, Soldier is responsible for developing, integrating, testing, acquiring, fielding, and managing the total life cycle of soldier systems. For more information on PM, Soldier, refer to the article on PM, Soldier's Land Warrior Program in the March-April 2000 issue of Army AL&T magazine (Page 47).
^ Jette, Bruce D. (March–April 2000). "Warrior Systems to Meet the Army Chief of Staff's Vision | Army AL&T (acquisition, logistics, and technology) magazine". google.com/books. Acquisition Career Management Office. pp. 45-46 / pdf p. 54-55. Retrieved 20 June 2025. The Project Manager (PM), Soldier System is contributing to the fulfillment of this vision [i.e., the Soldier-as-a-system] in a practical way by equipping the soldier systematically rather than as a collection of individual items. Metrics are being established to track success in enhancing both individual and collective capabilities of soldiers who are deployed with both light and heavy forces. Weight carried, power consumed, and situational awareness provide measurable parameters to support all soldier system objectives of lethality, survivability, mobility, command and control, and sustainability. The difference between their impact on light and heavy forces is simply an issue of emphasis. (___enter___); Outfitting The Soldier (enter); This effort literally begins at the skin of the soldier and extends to a vehicle or equipment interface. PM, Soldier System is responsible for everything soldiers wear and much of what they carry. As such, PM, Soldier System must ensure that soldiers are outfitted with clothing and personal equipment to survive in all operational environments, including hot, cold, wet, and dry climates; and in areas subjected to all types of ballistics and nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. This process begins with undergarments and socks now made of highly sophisticated materials to provide lightweight protection from abrasion, cold, and moisture. Outfitting continues with uniforms that camouflage and protect; then to body armor and helmets; and to load-bearing equipment, canteens, and specialty items such as grappling hooks. While this seems like a rather mundane area of work, these items have been the primary source of increased weight for soldiers during the last 40 years, impacting survivability and mobility. During this same 40 years, chemical protection has gone from something needed under unusual circumstances to something required as part of the ensemble. True ballistic-protection body armor is only now being fielded. Advancements in lightweight materials to stop bullets and shrapnel demand further application to bulletproof helmets and more extensive coverage areas. But these advancements must be measured in terms of their total effectiveness in lethality protection, and their impact on survivability and on soldier mobility.
^ Johnson, Theodore; Gillis, Matt (March–April 2002). "From Now to the Objective Force: An Architectural Approach to Soldier Systems | PM magazine (Program Manager)". google.com/books. DAU Press, Defense Acquisition University, Fort Belvoir, VA. p. 98-102. Retrieved 20 June 2025. How do you integrate, produce, and support systems that use rapidly changing technology, but also evolve to meet the soldier's needs for today, tomorrow, and for the next two decades? As the acquisition manager and integrator for all items worn or carried by the soldier, U.S. Army Project Manager Soldier Systems, known as PM Soldier Systems, is facing this difficult question.
^ Cavezza, Carmen J. (July–August 1991). "Commandant's Note – The Soldier System | Infantry magazine". google.com/books. Vol. 81, No. 4. US Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, GA. pp. 1-2 / pdf p. 178-179. PB 7-91-4. Retrieved 20 June 2025. A Project Manager-Soldier (PM-Soldier) is being established within the Army Materiel Command (AMC) to manage the cost, schedule, and performance factors associated with the development, acquisition, and fielding of materiel for the soldier." (...) "The offices of TSM-Soldier and PM-Soldier are staffed with dedicated military and civilian professionals. Their sole aim is to ensure that the U.S. soldier is the best led, best trained, [sic] and best equipped soldier in the world, ready for combat anywhere in the world on a moment's notice.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Reorganization of PM Soldier – (Support Systems Division (AMCRD-S), Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development & Engineering (AMCRD) – Chapter III: Materiel Acquisition) | Fiscal Year 1994 Annual Command History for HQ AMC". google.com/books. HQ AMC Historical Office. November 1996. pp. 162 / pdf p. 203. RCS-CSHIS-6(4). Retrieved 20 June 2025. Reorganization of PM Soldier (enter); On 29 September 1994, Project Manager, Soldier was assigned to Headquarters, U.S. Army Materiel Command. The mission of PM Soldier is to modernize the soldier as a total system. All elements of that system must work together to achieve a balance among the soldier's warfighting capabilities (lethality, mobility, communications and control, survivability and sustainability). PM Soldier provides centralized project management of the Soldier System Program within AMC. This applies to the development and acquisition of items the individual soldier wears, consumes or carries in the tactical environment. It also includes non-tactical clothing and individual equipment, and dress clothing. PM Soldier is responsible for the coordination of concept formulation and programmatics with PEOs/PMs, MACOMs, and other services. PM soldier serves as the AMC Executive Agent for the Soldier Enhancement Program (SEP). (___enter___); PM Soldier was also established as a Separate Reporting Activity (SRA) under the Commander, Army Materiel Command, effective 1 October 1994. Colonel William T. Meadows was assigned as the Project Manager in June 1993. PM Soldier reorganized into five teams and a Logistics Management Office in September 1994. The teams consist of Clothing and Individual Equipment, Land Warrior, Crew Warrior, Soldier Enhancement Program and Business Management.
^ ^a ^b "About Team Soldier | PEO Soldier". peosoldier.army.mil. Archived from the original on 7 February 2005. Retrieved 16 May 2025. Historically, Soldier equipment has fit together more by coincidence than by design. However, the technology boom has made possible the most significant transformation of the Soldier in half a century. The Army recognized the need to focus, refine, and leverage new technologies and created a single acquisition office to champion the warfighting needs of the Soldier. Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier stood up in April 2002. PEO Soldier's mission is to arm and equip Soldiers to dominate the full spectrum of peace and war, now and in the future. To achieve this mission, the Army is treating the Soldier as a System, in the same sense that larger weapon platforms such as tanks, howitzers, and aircraft function as systems and integrate with other systems. All aspects of Soldier equipment are developed to be integrated, modular, interoperable, and mission-tailorable. The result is a single integrated combat system that enhances Soldier performance in all critical areas: increased effectiveness, decreased load, and improved mission flexibility. By managing the Soldier as a System, PEO Soldier will save Soldiers' lives, improve their quality of life, and increase their combat effectiveness. (___enter___); The Program Executive Office Soldier, led by Brigadier General James R. Moran, has three Project Managers. (___enter___); Project Manager Soldier Warrior [more info] (___enter___); This includes Product Managers Land Warrior and Air Warrior. These are Soldier as a System systems, integrated systems designed to provide significant improvements to Soldier lethality, survivability, mobility, and sustainability on the ground and in aircraft. (___enter___); Project Manager Soldier Equipment [more info] (___enter___); Product Manager Sensors and Lasers provides digital and laser-designated sensor systems to rapidly and accurately detect and engage targets in adverse and battlefield-obscured conditions, day or night. Product Manager Clothing and Individual Equipment provides Soldiers with ballistic protection; safe, durable, effective individual and unit equipment; protective clothing (including chemical protection); airdrop equipment; and basic clothing items. (___enter___); Project Manager Soldier Weapons [more info] (___enter___); Product Manager Individual Weapons is responsible for managing the acquisition of all current and future individual weapon systems including rifles, pistols, shotguns, grenade launchers, and associated target acquisition/fire control systems. Product Manager Crew-Served Weapons is responsible for managing the acquisition of all crew-served weapons including heavy sniper systems, machine guns, grenade launcher machine guns, ammunition and associated target acquisition/fire control. Individual and crew-served weapon systems provide Soldiers with decisive overmatch capability by dramatically increasing lethality and range at lower weight.
^ "About Team Soldier | PEO Soldier". peosoldier.army.mil. Archived from the original on 12 December 2004. Retrieved 16 May 2025. On June 7, 2002, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology activated Team Soldier at Ft Belvoir, VA. Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier's mission is to develop, produce, field, and sustain everything that the Soldier wears, carries, and operates. The vision of PEO Soldier is to be the center of excellence for transforming Soldiers' capabilities so that they continuously dominate the battlefield across the full spectrum of war. The organization is focused directly and exclusively on the Soldier, today, throughout the Army's transformation to the Objective Force, and beyond. PEO Soldier provides overall direction and guidance for the Acquisition Category (ACAT) I, II, and III programs shown on this website. These Systems fall under the purview of three Project and six Product Managers.
^ Moran, James R. (March–April 2003). "The Objective Force Soldier". google.com/books. pp. 12-13 / pdf p. 85-86. Retrieved 20 June 2025. PEO, Soldier (enter); On the acquisition side, Program Executive Office (PEO), Soldier was activated June 7, 2002, to provide centralized soldier system acquisition management. PEO, Soldier is the first organization with acquisition responsibility to develop, field, and sustain everything a soldier wears or carries. PEO, Soldier's mission is to arm and equip soldiers to dominate the full spectrum of peace and war, now and in the future. Developing and fielding an effective soldier system requires alignment, synchronization, and funding of multiple programs. PEO, Soldier manages 346 programs, organized under three project managers. Project Manager, Soldier Warrior consists of Product Manager, Land Warrior (LW) and Product Manager, Air Warrior. Project Manager, Soldier Weapons includes Product Manager, Individual Weapons and Product Manager, Crew-Served Weapons. Project Manager, Soldier Sensors and Equipment consists of Product Manager, Multi-Spectrum Sensors and Product Manager, Clothing and Individual Equipment.
^ ^a ^b Clifton, Nile L. Jr.; Copeland, Douglas W. (December 2008). "The Land Warrior Soldier System: A Case Study for the Acquisition of Soldier Systems". archive.org. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. pp. 49 / pdf p. 76. ADA493630. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 July 2018. Retrieved 20 June 2025 – via Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). To address concerns surrounding the program's complexity and the need for additional oversight of the LW Program, the program management office was re-designated PEO Soldier from PM Soldier in June 2002. This elevated the top-level management of the program from an O-6/Colonel level to an O-7/Brigadier General level. Additional changes in oversight at the Army level occurred in 2002 as well.
^ Leipold, J.D. (7 May 2012). "PEO Soldier celebrates anniversary, welcomes new leader, unveils new logo". www.army.mil. Archived from the original on 23 February 2020. Retrieved 30 May 2025. Retired Brig. Gen. James R. Moran, who was tasked with standing up PEO Soldier in 2002, recalled how just 10 years ago the organization's headquarters was in an abandoned motor pool and PEO Soldier Equipment was based in an abandoned warehouse. The war wasn't expected to last but a few months, so there was no real thought of growing the organization, he said.
^ "PEO Soldier | Soldier Enhancement Program". www.peosoldier.army.mil. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2025. The mission of SEP is to identify and evaluate commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS), government-off-the-shelf (GOTS), non-developmental items (NDI) individual weapons, munitions, optics, combat clothing, individual equipment, water supply, shelters, communication and navigational aids which can be adopted and provided to Soldiers.

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External links

PEO Soldier website (2008)
PEO Soldier page – description at akooffiline.org
Soldier Enhancement Program | PEO Soldier
PEO Soldier | LinkedIn

[:1-1] Jette, Bruce D.; Brower, Bill (July–August 1999). "The Soldier as a System | Army RD&A (research, development and acquisition) magazine". google.com/books. Acquisition Career Management Office. pp. 3-4 / pdf p. 218-219. PB 70-99-4. Retrieved 20 June 2025. The Project Manager for Soldier Systems (PM-Soldier) was officially chartered in June 1992. Creation of the PM-Soldier fulfilled the senior Army leadership's long-standing desire to structure an activity to centralize the life-cycle management of soldier system materiel acquisition. Since 1992, PM-Soldier's fundamental mission to modernize the individual soldier has remained constant, although the quantity and complexity of the programs managed by PM-Soldier have increased as we deploy the soldier onto the digital battlefield. (___enter___); PM-Soldier is responsible for all combat, life support, ballistic, and environmental protective items worn or carried by soldiers for individual use in a tactical environment as well as nontactical clothing and equipment such as Army dress uniforms and physical fitness uniforms. A distinguishing feature of PM-Soldier is the range of quantities procured. Many items of clothing are procured for the total Army, and other items, such as the Self Contained Toxicological Environmental Protective Overgarment, are procured in very limited quantities for specific missions.

[2] Mangual, J. A. (July–August 2000). "SBCCOM's Contributions to Transforming the Force | Army AL&T (acquisition, logistics, and technology) magazine". google.com/books. Acquisition Career Management Office. pp. 23 / pdf p. 168. Retrieved 20 June 2025. PM, Soldier (enter); PM, Soldier is responsible for developing, integrating, testing, acquiring, fielding, and managing the total life cycle of soldier systems. For more information on PM, Soldier, refer to the article on PM, Soldier's Land Warrior Program in the March-April 2000 issue of Army AL&T magazine (Page 47).

[3] Jette, Bruce D. (March–April 2000). "Warrior Systems to Meet the Army Chief of Staff's Vision | Army AL&T (acquisition, logistics, and technology) magazine". google.com/books. Acquisition Career Management Office. pp. 45-46 / pdf p. 54-55. Retrieved 20 June 2025. The Project Manager (PM), Soldier System is contributing to the fulfillment of this vision [i.e., the Soldier-as-a-system] in a practical way by equipping the soldier systematically rather than as a collection of individual items. Metrics are being established to track success in enhancing both individual and collective capabilities of soldiers who are deployed with both light and heavy forces. Weight carried, power consumed, and situational awareness provide measurable parameters to support all soldier system objectives of lethality, survivability, mobility, command and control, and sustainability. The difference between their impact on light and heavy forces is simply an issue of emphasis. (___enter___); Outfitting The Soldier (enter); This effort literally begins at the skin of the soldier and extends to a vehicle or equipment interface. PM, Soldier System is responsible for everything soldiers wear and much of what they carry. As such, PM, Soldier System must ensure that soldiers are outfitted with clothing and personal equipment to survive in all operational environments, including hot, cold, wet, and dry climates; and in areas subjected to all types of ballistics and nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. This process begins with undergarments and socks now made of highly sophisticated materials to provide lightweight protection from abrasion, cold, and moisture. Outfitting continues with uniforms that camouflage and protect; then to body armor and helmets; and to load-bearing equipment, canteens, and specialty items such as grappling hooks. While this seems like a rather mundane area of work, these items have been the primary source of increased weight for soldiers during the last 40 years, impacting survivability and mobility. During this same 40 years, chemical protection has gone from something needed under unusual circumstances to something required as part of the ensemble. True ballistic-protection body armor is only now being fielded. Advancements in lightweight materials to stop bullets and shrapnel demand further application to bulletproof helmets and more extensive coverage areas. But these advancements must be measured in terms of their total effectiveness in lethality protection, and their impact on survivability and on soldier mobility.

[4] Johnson, Theodore; Gillis, Matt (March–April 2002). "From Now to the Objective Force: An Architectural Approach to Soldier Systems | PM magazine (Program Manager)". google.com/books. DAU Press, Defense Acquisition University, Fort Belvoir, VA. p. 98-102. Retrieved 20 June 2025. How do you integrate, produce, and support systems that use rapidly changing technology, but also evolve to meet the soldier's needs for today, tomorrow, and for the next two decades? As the acquisition manager and integrator for all items worn or carried by the soldier, U.S. Army Project Manager Soldier Systems, known as PM Soldier Systems, is facing this difficult question.

[5] Cavezza, Carmen J. (July–August 1991). "Commandant's Note – The Soldier System | Infantry magazine". google.com/books. Vol. 81, No. 4. US Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, GA. pp. 1-2 / pdf p. 178-179. PB 7-91-4. Retrieved 20 June 2025. A Project Manager-Soldier (PM-Soldier) is being established within the Army Materiel Command (AMC) to manage the cost, schedule, and performance factors associated with the development, acquisition, and fielding of materiel for the soldier." (...) "The offices of TSM-Soldier and PM-Soldier are staffed with dedicated military and civilian professionals. Their sole aim is to ensure that the U.S. soldier is the best led, best trained, [sic] and best equipped soldier in the world, ready for combat anywhere in the world on a moment's notice.

[:3-6] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Reorganization of PM Soldier – (Support Systems Division (AMCRD-S), Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development & Engineering (AMCRD) – Chapter III: Materiel Acquisition) | Fiscal Year 1994 Annual Command History for HQ AMC". google.com/books. HQ AMC Historical Office. November 1996. pp. 162 / pdf p. 203. RCS-CSHIS-6(4). Retrieved 20 June 2025. Reorganization of PM Soldier (enter); On 29 September 1994, Project Manager, Soldier was assigned to Headquarters, U.S. Army Materiel Command. The mission of PM Soldier is to modernize the soldier as a total system. All elements of that system must work together to achieve a balance among the soldier's warfighting capabilities (lethality, mobility, communications and control, survivability and sustainability). PM Soldier provides centralized project management of the Soldier System Program within AMC. This applies to the development and acquisition of items the individual soldier wears, consumes or carries in the tactical environment. It also includes non-tactical clothing and individual equipment, and dress clothing. PM Soldier is responsible for the coordination of concept formulation and programmatics with PEOs/PMs, MACOMs, and other services. PM soldier serves as the AMC Executive Agent for the Soldier Enhancement Program (SEP). (___enter___); PM Soldier was also established as a Separate Reporting Activity (SRA) under the Commander, Army Materiel Command, effective 1 October 1994. Colonel William T. Meadows was assigned as the Project Manager in June 1993. PM Soldier reorganized into five teams and a Logistics Management Office in September 1994. The teams consist of Clothing and Individual Equipment, Land Warrior, Crew Warrior, Soldier Enhancement Program and Business Management.

[:0-7] "About Team Soldier | PEO Soldier". peosoldier.army.mil. Archived from the original on 7 February 2005. Retrieved 16 May 2025. Historically, Soldier equipment has fit together more by coincidence than by design. However, the technology boom has made possible the most significant transformation of the Soldier in half a century. The Army recognized the need to focus, refine, and leverage new technologies and created a single acquisition office to champion the warfighting needs of the Soldier. Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier stood up in April 2002. PEO Soldier's mission is to arm and equip Soldiers to dominate the full spectrum of peace and war, now and in the future. To achieve this mission, the Army is treating the Soldier as a System, in the same sense that larger weapon platforms such as tanks, howitzers, and aircraft function as systems and integrate with other systems. All aspects of Soldier equipment are developed to be integrated, modular, interoperable, and mission-tailorable. The result is a single integrated combat system that enhances Soldier performance in all critical areas: increased effectiveness, decreased load, and improved mission flexibility. By managing the Soldier as a System, PEO Soldier will save Soldiers' lives, improve their quality of life, and increase their combat effectiveness. (___enter___); The Program Executive Office Soldier, led by Brigadier General James R. Moran, has three Project Managers. (___enter___); Project Manager Soldier Warrior [more info] (___enter___); This includes Product Managers Land Warrior and Air Warrior. These are Soldier as a System systems, integrated systems designed to provide significant improvements to Soldier lethality, survivability, mobility, and sustainability on the ground and in aircraft. (___enter___); Project Manager Soldier Equipment [more info] (___enter___); Product Manager Sensors and Lasers provides digital and laser-designated sensor systems to rapidly and accurately detect and engage targets in adverse and battlefield-obscured conditions, day or night. Product Manager Clothing and Individual Equipment provides Soldiers with ballistic protection; safe, durable, effective individual and unit equipment; protective clothing (including chemical protection); airdrop equipment; and basic clothing items. (___enter___); Project Manager Soldier Weapons [more info] (___enter___); Product Manager Individual Weapons is responsible for managing the acquisition of all current and future individual weapon systems including rifles, pistols, shotguns, grenade launchers, and associated target acquisition/fire control systems. Product Manager Crew-Served Weapons is responsible for managing the acquisition of all crew-served weapons including heavy sniper systems, machine guns, grenade launcher machine guns, ammunition and associated target acquisition/fire control. Individual and crew-served weapon systems provide Soldiers with decisive overmatch capability by dramatically increasing lethality and range at lower weight.

[8] "About Team Soldier | PEO Soldier". peosoldier.army.mil. Archived from the original on 12 December 2004. Retrieved 16 May 2025. On June 7, 2002, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology activated Team Soldier at Ft Belvoir, VA. Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier's mission is to develop, produce, field, and sustain everything that the Soldier wears, carries, and operates. The vision of PEO Soldier is to be the center of excellence for transforming Soldiers' capabilities so that they continuously dominate the battlefield across the full spectrum of war. The organization is focused directly and exclusively on the Soldier, today, throughout the Army's transformation to the Objective Force, and beyond. PEO Soldier provides overall direction and guidance for the Acquisition Category (ACAT) I, II, and III programs shown on this website. These Systems fall under the purview of three Project and six Product Managers.

[9] Moran, James R. (March–April 2003). "The Objective Force Soldier". google.com/books. pp. 12-13 / pdf p. 85-86. Retrieved 20 June 2025. PEO, Soldier (enter); On the acquisition side, Program Executive Office (PEO), Soldier was activated June 7, 2002, to provide centralized soldier system acquisition management. PEO, Soldier is the first organization with acquisition responsibility to develop, field, and sustain everything a soldier wears or carries. PEO, Soldier's mission is to arm and equip soldiers to dominate the full spectrum of peace and war, now and in the future. Developing and fielding an effective soldier system requires alignment, synchronization, and funding of multiple programs. PEO, Soldier manages 346 programs, organized under three project managers. Project Manager, Soldier Warrior consists of Product Manager, Land Warrior (LW) and Product Manager, Air Warrior. Project Manager, Soldier Weapons includes Product Manager, Individual Weapons and Product Manager, Crew-Served Weapons. Project Manager, Soldier Sensors and Equipment consists of Product Manager, Multi-Spectrum Sensors and Product Manager, Clothing and Individual Equipment.

[:2-10] Clifton, Nile L. Jr.; Copeland, Douglas W. (December 2008). "The Land Warrior Soldier System: A Case Study for the Acquisition of Soldier Systems". archive.org. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. pp. 49 / pdf p. 76. ADA493630. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 July 2018. Retrieved 20 June 2025 – via Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). To address concerns surrounding the program's complexity and the need for additional oversight of the LW Program, the program management office was re-designated PEO Soldier from PM Soldier in June 2002. This elevated the top-level management of the program from an O-6/Colonel level to an O-7/Brigadier General level. Additional changes in oversight at the Army level occurred in 2002 as well.

[11] Leipold, J.D. (7 May 2012). "PEO Soldier celebrates anniversary, welcomes new leader, unveils new logo". www.army.mil. Archived from the original on 23 February 2020. Retrieved 30 May 2025. Retired Brig. Gen. James R. Moran, who was tasked with standing up PEO Soldier in 2002, recalled how just 10 years ago the organization's headquarters was in an abandoned motor pool and PEO Soldier Equipment was based in an abandoned warehouse. The war wasn't expected to last but a few months, so there was no real thought of growing the organization, he said.

[12] "PEO Soldier | Soldier Enhancement Program". www.peosoldier.army.mil. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2025. The mission of SEP is to identify and evaluate commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS), government-off-the-shelf (GOTS), non-developmental items (NDI) individual weapons, munitions, optics, combat clothing, individual equipment, water supply, shelters, communication and navigational aids which can be adopted and provided to Soldiers.

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