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Joint Advanced Planning Brief to Industry

November 6, 2019

Mr. Ross Guckert

Deputy Program Executive Officer Soldier
PEO Soldier

Mission, Vision & Priorities

Rapidly deliver agile/adaptive, leading edge Soldier 

capabilities in order to provide combat overmatch today 

and be more lethal tomorrow.

1. Deliver Capability

2. Take Care of Our People

3. Develop a Culture of 

Innovation

Priorities

Mission

Be the world’s premier capability provider for the 

Integrated Soldier and Squad weapons platform.

Vision
PEO Soldier Major Activities

Synthetic

Training

Environment

Heads-Up

Display

(HUD) 3.0

PD Rapid

Equipping Force

Soldier Maneuver

Sensors

Soldier Precision

Targeting Devices

C-UAS

COP/FOB 

Force Protection

Tactical ISR

Electronic 

Warfare 

PM Integrated Visual Augmentation System

Soldier Clothing & 

Individual Equipment

Soldier Protective

Equipment

PM Soldier

Survivability

Air Warrior

Individual Weapons

PM Soldier

Lethality

Crew-Served

Weapons

Next Generation

Weapons

PM Close 

Combat Squad

Ground Soldier

Systems

Soldier Integration 

Facility (SIF)

PM Soldier

Maneuver & 

Precision Targeting

As of: 1 October 2019
Army Materiel Enterprise (AME)

Soldier Lethality

Network

Long Range 

Precision Fires 

Next Generation 

Combat Vehicle

Future Vertical Lift

Air & Missile 

Defense

Synthetic Training

Environment

Assured PNT

Supported CFTs

Army Contracting Command

Contracting Centers (x6)

Assistant Secretary of the Army

(Acquisition, Logistics & Technology)

Soldier

US Army 

Medical Research

& Materiel

Command

Army Futures Command

(AFC)

Army Materiel Command

(AMC)

Enterprise Information Systems

Aviation

Missiles & Space

Joint PEO Armaments & Ammunition

Command Control Communications – Tactical

Chemical-Biological Defense (Joint)

Intelligence Electronic Warfare & Sensors

Ground Combat Systems

Combat Support & Combat Service Support

Simulation Training & Instrumentation

Assembled Chemical Weapon Alternatives

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Life Cycle Management

Commands (x4) Futures & Concepts 

Directorate

Combat Systems 

Directorate

From ASA(ALT) 

Independent Test

Contracting &

Sustainment

HQDA Directed 

Requirements 

(ONS, etc.)

TACOM

CECOM

AMCOM

JM&L

Rapid Equipping Force

10-Liners

Army Test & Evaluation 

Command (ATEC)

Training & Doctrine Command

(TRADOC)

OCIE Sustainment &

Contracting Support

Supporting

Combat Capabilities 

Development Command

Concepts & 

Requirements

• Joint Modernization Cmd

• Aviation Center

• Intelligence Center

• Cyber Center

• Fires Center

• Chaplain Center

• Maneuver Center

• Sustainment Center

• Mission Command Center

• Maneuver Support Center

• Research & Analysis Center

Centers

• Army Research Lab

• Armaments

• Aviation & Missile

• Chemical & Biological

• Data & Analysis

• Ground Vehicle Systems

• Soldier (Natick)

• C5ISR

Coordination

Defense Logistics 

Agency

Troop Support
Adaptive Squad Architecture

Need to go from this... ...to this!

ASA enables systematic modernization 

and quantitative assessment of new 

capabilities on the overall effectiveness of 

Soldiers/Squads

• 85+ items/components

• 122 lbs. of kit

• Redundant power sources

• Connected with cables

Adaptive Squad Architecture is governmentowned, collaboratively developed architecture that 

documents all existing and future Soldier/Squad 

variations, including all interface controls between 

Soldier/Squad systems and external systems.
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Treating the Squad as a 

Major Weapons Platform

• Rapid Target Acquisition (RTA) (“Offset” Shooting)

• Rapid Distribution of Digital SA & TargetingData

• Fight, Rehearse and Train with one “system”

• Fielded as a system with IntegratedTraining

• Targeting & SA (wide & small FOV)simultaneously

• Common Operating Picture acrossSquad

• Increased Lethality thru shared, enhanced Artificial 

Intelligence/Augmented Reality

• Wireless Movement of Data around Soldier& 

across Squads

Value of Integrated Capability Sets

ISW Intra-Soldier Wireless

IVAS Integrated Visual

Augmentation System

IHPS IntegratedHelmet

Protection System

ITN Integrated Tactical 

Network

NGSW Next Generation Squad 

Weapons

FC Fire Control

FWS-I Family of Weapon

Sights-Individual

EUD End User Device (Nett 

Warrior)

SBS Soldier Borne Sensor 

UHMA Universal Helmet Mount

Assembly

NGSW-FC

FWS-I Smaller FOV for 

increased targeting range IVAS Wider FOVfor 

improved SA

Or

Power/DataRail

IHPS

SBS

ISW

ENVG-B

EUD

ITNConnectivity

to Squad &Above

Capability Set Example

Thermal

DayOptic

• Shared Squad Level ISR

• Opportunities to Combine Capabilities & 

Reduce Form Factors (USG provides 

infrastructure & architecture; industry 

provides compliant capability at reducedcost)

UHMA

NGSW-Ror 

NGSW-AR

Value of Adaptive Squad Architecture (ASA)

• Applies a systems engineering approach to the Soldier & Squad

• Centralizes Power & Processing

• Defines common standards & interfaces

• Drives down SWaP, creates efficiencies

• Fosters innovation within Industry

• Essential to Integration & Interoperability
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Optimizing the Close Combat Squad

Soldier Integration Facility (SIF)

(Fort Belvoir, VA)

BattleLab

Enabled by EXFOR unit 

(Fort Benning, GA)

Soldier/Squad Performance 

Research Institute (S2PRINT) 

(Natick, MA)

Validating Performance & Training Approaches

Monitoring and Assessing Soldier and Tactical 

Readiness and Effectiveness (MASTR-E)

Integrate Technical Systems

Adaptive Squad Architecture (ASA) 

Squad Performance Model (SPM)

Operational Validation

DOTMLPF Analysis

Test & Experiment, M&S

Evaluate

PEOs

CCDC

AFC

SL CFT

MCoE

CFTs

CRAWL RUN

WALK
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How Can Industry Help?

 LETHALITY

‒ Weapons: Extending the life of the weapon (lubricants, surface 

treatments, barrel linings)

‒ Intelligent Rail Technology: Integrated power and data

‒ Fire Control: Range, resolution, accuracy, environmental ballistic 

solution, delayed trigger); improved plastics and manufacturing 

techniques of plastics to replace glass lenses for weight reduction 

(molded aspheres)

 SITUATIONAL AWARENESS (Goggles and HUD)

‒ Power: Advanced battery chemistries (anode, cathode, electrolytes, 

etc.); S/W management, E-textiles; conductive charging

‒ Resolution, FOV, Augmented Target Recognition, accuracy

‒ Reduced latency

‒ 3D modeling and rendering

‒ Innovative materials to drive down weight

‒ Low power sensors (IR, low light)

‒ GPS-denied solutions
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How Can Industry Help?

 TRAINING/HUMAN PERFORMANCE

‒ Sensors for biomarkers to monitor cognitive and physical state

‒ Neuro-stimulation tools and nutrition

 MOBILITY

‒ Exoskeleton

 SURVIVABILITY

‒ Ballistic and Blast Protection: Maintain/Increase protection while 

reducing weight and considering mobility 

‒ Organization Clothing and Individual Equipment (OCIE): Reduced 

signature (IR, VIS, etc.); protection from the elements; better 

integration
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