PEO Soldier

PEO Soldier
PEO Soldier
	PEO Soldier emblem
Active	2002–present
Country	United States
Branch	US 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

Program Executive Office Soldier (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 the soldiers.

History

On 7 June 2002, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology activated Team Soldier at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.^[1]^[2] The first commander of PEO Soldier was Brigadier General James R. Moran.^[2]

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 world-class 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 US 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."^[3]

References

^ "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.
^ ^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.
^ "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.

This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Army

External links

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

[1] "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.

[:0-2] "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.

[3] "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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