JBM to Provide Engineering Support to GSE

ALEXANDRIA, VA, May 1, 2009 – The U.S. Army has placed heavy emphasis on situational awareness for its units presently serving worldwide. In an effort to provide tools to help realize this objective, the TACOM Contracting Center held a competition for the Ground Soldier Ensemble (GSE) to develop a system that provides dismounted Soldiers increased situational awareness, decreased reaction times, and reduced risk of fratricide. The intent is to focus on providing mature technologies, that when integrated together on the Soldier, minimizes the size, weight and power impacts to the Soldier while providing network connectivity capabilities at various echelon levels within an Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT). General Dynamics C4 Systems, Scottsdale, Arizona, was awarded one of the three contracts for the GSE program. Based on its years of operational experience on the Land Warrior program, JBM was awarded a subcontract by General Dynamics C4 Systems to provide technical field service engineering in support of the GSE Technology Demonstration Development Phase (TDP). JBM will provided program management and experienced systems engineers familiar with the Land Warrior ensembles, Stryker Vehicle A and B kits, Advanced Mission Data Support Equipment (AMDSE), as well as other operationally relevant supporting systems and equipment. The subcontract has a one-year period of performance, projected to begin in January 2010. JBM has supported the Land Warrior program over the past three years, providing support to 4/2ID SBCT and 5/2ID SBCT fielding the systems at Fort Lewis, WA, and accompanied units during their operational deployments to Iraq.  JBM’s vast knowledge of the Stryker concept and Army Battle Command products has given Land Warrior-equipped soldiers an unparallelled capability never seen on the battlefield, allowing soldier Situational Awareness and Communications to be transferred to their higher level of commands. “The Land Warrior system has proven it is combat multiplier and GSE will only increase the Army’s C2 and SA capabilities” , said Roy Harris, JBM’s PM for Land Warrior and GSE effort. For more information about JBM’s support to the Land Warrior or Ground Soldier Ensemble (GSE), please contact JBM’s Business Development Team.