On Aug 28, 2015, the Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal awarded a $35,372,762 cost-plus-fixed-fee, fixed-price incentive, and firm-fixed-price hybrid contract of the Common Infrared Countermeasure (CIRCM) program’s Engineering and Manufacturing Development phase to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation for U.S. Army Project Manager for Aircraft Survivability Equipment (PM ASE).

We had a number of spirited discussions. He had views on program management that were different than mine. And I learned to come around to his way of understanding programs.

Following a three year tour leading the Project Manager Electronic Warfare (PM EW) team, Col. Joseph Dupont passed the reins of the organization to Col. Marty Hagenston during a Change of Charter ceremony hosted by Stephen Kreider, Program Executive Officer- Intelligence Electronic Warfare & Sensors on July 1.

To honor a former Natick Soldier Systems Center, or NSSC, commander, who was killed in Afghanistan, the Town of Natick renamed the street that leads to the installation’s gates, July 10.

“Larger than life” was the term that echoed throughout the audience about Maj. Gen. Harold Greene during a small ceremony held within at the Program Executive Office for Intelligence & Electronic Warfare command suite on June 4.

The military is pushing the boundaries of sensors on a number of fronts. New tools can radically reduce power usage. Thermal and night-vision sights improve every day. Emerging tools will bring special ops motion sensors to new performance levels.

Whenever we have almost 2000 U.S. Army and British paratroopers simultaneously dropped out of the sky from C-130s and C-17s to support an exercise, it demands extensive planning, coordination, and communication from all echelons within the 82nd Airborne Division.

Four individuals and a product manager team from the Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors (PEO IEW&S) received 2015 Excellence in Federal Career Awards during a May 1 event sponsored by the Baltimore Federal Executive Board (FEB).

The portfolio of the Army aerostat systems has doubled with the addition of 29 Persistent Ground Surveillance Systems (PGSS). Working in conjunction with the Navy, the Product Director (PD) Aerostats office accepted the transfer of the systems less than a year after direction was given to move the aerostats to the Army. The combination of the two capabilities under the Persistent Surveillance Systems-Tethered (PSS-T) program allows for better coverage of operational requirements.