The U.S. Army Project Manager for Aircraft Survivability Equipment (PM ASE)) awarded contracts on January 31, 2012 to BAE and Northrop Grumman for the Technology Development phase of the Common Infrared Countermeasure (CIRCM).

The 201st Afghan National Army Corps received its first training and fielding of the ‘Wolfhound’ signal intelligence gathering system at Forward Operating Base Gamberi, Jan. 18-31, 2014.

The Program Executive Office for Electronic Warfare & Sensors (PEO IEW&S) took an opportunity to bring together a group of former program executive officers along with the organization’s current leadership for a Senior Strategic Meeting, on Dec 4.

The term “the more things change the more they stay the same” could be applied to the Relinquishment and Assumption of Charter ceremonies the Program Executive Office for Intelligence Electronic Warfare and Sensors (PEO IEW&S) hosted on Oct 1, in the Myer Auditorium.

The first Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance Surveillance System (EMARSS) aircraft arrived at APG on June 28 to begin system testing. It is the first of four aircraft that will be ferried to APG within the coming months.

An application called “Coral Reef,” which is part of the Army’s larger “Distributed Common Ground System – Army,” was named one of the “Top 5” among 25 top technologies and efforts of 2012 by C4ISR Journal.

Frank Kendall, undersecretary of defense for acquisitions, technology and logistics, and Gary J. Motsek, deputy assistant secretary of defense (Program Support), visited the 401st Army Field Support Brigade for the second time in two years, but had a different agenda for the return visit and spent a good part of their time focusing on equipment retrograde.

On February 9, the Field Artillery Association (FAA) once again lit up the sky as the organization hosted its second annual induction event at Aberdeen Proving Ground to include welcoming a group of new award recipients into the Order of Saint Barbara as a part of the event at the Top of the Bay Club.

Facilitating actionable intelligence at the lowest echelons has been a challenge that the Army has been working its way through since the earliest days of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, when it was determined that there was a dire need to disseminate and collate the plethora of human and signals intelligence that was being collected.