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“We will leverage the lessons learned from the last eight years to provide effective and affordable equipment now, while reducing the time it takes to develop and field new and updated materiel solutions.” -- from the 2010 Army Posture Statement
Project Manager Close Combat Systems (PM CCS) is committed
to helping our Soldiers maintain freedom to move on the battlefield by developing, fielding, and supporting technologically advanced products, including:
- Networked Munitions
- Legacy mines
- Countermine and EOD equipment
- IED Defeat equipment
- Demolitions
- Non-Lethal Systems and Munitions
- Grenades
- Pyrotechnics
- Shoulder Launched Munitions
- Special Projects
- K9 Equipment
PM CCS manages more than 200 separate programs, many of which are actively supporting Warfighters in Iraq and Afghanistan. PM CCS’ mission is to provide smaller, lighter, more lethal munitions that ensure increased mobility and counter-mobility to the full spectrum of Army forces as currently organized and envisioned for the next 20 years.
PM CCS also has an aggressive in-stride modernization strategy that applies acquisition reform and product modernization principals to its management of newly assigned legacy munitions, some decades old. Using performance specifications, best value competition and active partnering between government and contractor personnel on Integrated Product Teams, PM CCS is qualifying updated ammunition designs, materials and production technologies while maintaining timely munitions delivery to multi-service customers.
The PM was established in 1961 as Project Manager for Mines, Countermine and Demolitions. In 2002, the PM became Project Manager Close Combat Systems, part of the newly established Project Executive Office Ammunition, and assumed responsibility for the lifecycle management of several new product lines in addition to munitions already under management.
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