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Academic Partnership Advances Quality Assurance for the Army Personnel Parachute System
June 10, 2025 — In a strategic collaboration with the Army’s Personnel Airdrop Systems (PADS) team, a group of Northeastern University industrial engineering students culminated their senior capstone competition, delivering more than first prize. The Parachute Quality Assurance Modernization Team, mentored by U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) aerospace engineer Tashfiq “Tash,” Salam, stood out among 40 engineering teams, each challenged to develop real-world solutions for government and industry use... MORE

Northeastern University students Alexander Patten, Erica Lu, Logan Kane, and Johan Cho stand by their project display during their senior Capstone Day at Matthews Arena April 15, 2025. The team celebrated the culmination of a yearlong partnership with engineers from the Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM and Personnel Airdrop Systems team in developing modernized equipment used during parachute quality assurance inspections. (Photo courtesy of Natick Soldier Systems Center)

At the prestigious National Museum of the United States Army, leadership of PEO Soldier officially transitioned from Major General Christopher D. Schneider to Brigadier General Troy M. Denomy.
May 28, 2025 — Yesterday, at the prestigious National Museum of the United States Army, leadership of PEO Soldier officially transitioned from Major General Christopher D. Schneider to Brigadier General Troy M. Denomy. The ceremony was presided over by Lieutenant General Robert M. Collins... MORE

The ceremony was presided over by Lieutenant General Robert M. Collins

Michael Kelly, IVAS Acquisition and Operations Chief
April 7, 2025 — If you had told 18-year-old Army recruit Michael J. Kelly in 1987 where he would be nearly four decades from then, he wouldn’t have believed it... MORE

If you had told 18-year-old Army recruit Michael J. Kelly in 1987 where he would be nearly four decades from then, he wouldn’t have believed it.

We Hear You! Enhancing Soldier Feedback Through PEO Soldier’s Voice of the Soldier Data Platform
December 5, 2024 — Early in 2024, Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier’s Chief Information Office (CIO) in concert with the Assistant Program Executive Office (APEO) launched the Voice of the Soldier (VotS) data platform in support of the OK Analysis initiative, this effort aimed at strengthening the connection – and communication – between the operational force (Soldiers) and the Army's acquisition and material development communities. The VotS data platform demonstrates a method in how the Army gathers and utilizes feedback from its Soldiers to ensure cutting edge capabilities are fielded that Soldiers will use. In all, the VotS process begins to provide Army leaders with insights what Soldiers need (from the Soldiers themselves), understand how Soldier experiences provide invaluable data, and take that information to directly influence the development of future Army equipment and capabilities... MORE

Personnel Airdrop Team Supports LeapFest Paratrooper Competition
November 5, 2024 — In August, the Rhode Island National Guard hosted LeapFest 2024, an international paratrooper competition, in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. The event highlighted elite international paratrooper skills and promoted camaraderie and Esprit de Corps among the community of professional paratroopers. Various Allied Foreign Militaries and the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps took part. The competition featured the Maneuverable Canopy (MC-6) Personnel Parachute System, a product developed by the Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier, a branch of the Army that develops and provides equipment for soldiers... MORE

MAJ Ryan Cermely led a paratrooper team at LeapFest 2024.

Capstone Day at Matthews Arena April 15, 2025. The team celebrated the culmination of a yearlong partnership

We welcome BG Denomy as he assumes his role of PEO Soldier at the prestigious National Museum of the United States Army.

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