Capability Program Executive Combat Sustainment (CPE CS)

This is the Army’s truck, generator, bridge, boat, and field-services buyer. It manages roughly 20 percent of all Army equipment programs, the largest equipment portfolio in the service by program count, spanning the Engineer, Ordnance, Quartermaster, and Transportation domains. It is the former PEO Combat Support and Combat Service Support, carried into the reform as CPE Combat Logistics and now presenting as CPE Combat Sustainment.

Type	Capability Program Executive (CPE)
Headquarters	Detroit_Arsenal, Warren, MI; workforce across five locations in four states
Capability Program Executive	Michelle_Link (SES), accepted the colors 9 June 2026
Prior CPE	Camilla_White (BG), led the organization roughly two years through mid-2026
Subordinate to	PAE_Agile_Sustainment_Ammo (Picatinny_Arsenal, NJ), led by Christopher_Schneider (MG); ASAALT for acquisition authority
Scale	About 1,000 personnel; roughly 300 programs at all ACAT levels; $11.9B managed across the FYDP in FY2025; nearly 24,000 systems fielded that year
Predecessor	PEO_CS_CSS

Naming

The vault filename retains “Combat Logistics,” the November 2025 reform name and the label on the ASAALT org chart of 23 March 2026. The organization’s own 2026 announcements use CPE Combat Sustainment. The Detroit Arsenal tenant page has also used “PAE-Combat Logistics.” Same organization.

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Mission

Life-cycle program management for the equipment that moves, powers, feeds, repairs, and shelters the Army: tactical wheeled vehicles, engineer and construction equipment, Army watercraft, power generation and expeditionary energy, force sustainment and field services, ordnance and maintenance equipment, and related training capabilities, for the Army, the joint force, and foreign partners.

No Title 10 section establishes this office by name. Army capability program executives are designated by the Army Acquisition Executive, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology at 10 U.S.C. § 7016(b)(5)(A), acting under the Secretary of the Army’s authority to organize the Department of the Army at 10 U.S.C. § 7013(b)(2), and the portfolio acquisition executive role such an office performs is defined at 10 U.S.C. § 1732, added by Pub. L. 119-60 in December 2025, as explained at Title_10_Structure.

Subordinate Organizations

Project offices carried from PEO_CS_CSS:

• PM_Transportation_Systems — heavy and medium tactical wheeled vehicles: HEMTT, PLS, line-haul tractors, and the Common_Tactical_Truck effort
• PM_Force_Projection — Army watercraft, rail, JLOTS, container handling, deployment and distribution equipment
• PM_Expeditionary_Energy_and_Sustainment_Systems (PM E2S2) — power generation, microgrids, contingency basing, field feeding, water, shelters
• PM_Sets_Kits_Outfits_and_Tools (PM SKOT) lineage — maintenance and ordnance equipment
• PM_Joint_Light_Tactical_Vehicle lineage — JLTV and light tactical wheeled vehicles
• PdL_Common_Tactical_Truck — the family-of-vehicles effort to replace M915 and M1088 tractors, HEMTT, and PLS with a commercial-based modular platform

Program Element families

• 0605812A Joint Light Tactical Vehicle
• 0604604A Medium Tactical Vehicles
• 0604622A Family of Heavy Tactical Vehicles
• 0604642A Light Tactical Wheeled Vehicles
• 0603804A and 0604804A Logistics and Engineer Equipment
• 0603619A and 0604808A Landmine Warfare and Barrier
• 0303141A Global Combat Support System
• 0604746A Automatic Test Equipment Development
• Ground robotics shared with CPE_Mission_Autonomy: 0604641A Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle, 0605053A Ground Robotics, 0604017A Robotics Development

Procurement rolls up largely through Other Procurement, Army, the widest and most fragmented Army procurement appropriation. See Program Elements and Appropriations.

Why it matters

By program count this is the widest door into Army hardware. Roughly 300 programs, most of them modest, many of them commercial derivative. A firm that makes generators, water purification, trailers, cranes, hydraulics, or field services equipment sells here and nowhere else in the Army.

Commercial derivative is the explicit strategy. Common_Tactical_Truck is the flagship: a family of vehicles built off commercial truck platforms to replace three legacy heavy fleets. Oshkosh_Defense, AM_General, Mack_Defense, and GM_Defense compete at the platform level, but the modular approach opens sizeable subsystem work.

Contested logistics is the funding thesis. The Indo-Pacific problem set of dispersed forces, long sea lines, and contested resupply drives watercraft, expeditionary energy, autonomous resupply, and prepositioning investment. See Dispersal_Sustainment_Paradox.

Sustainment shares a campus with CPE_Ground. Both sit at Detroit_Arsenal alongside DEVCOM_Ground_Vehicle_Systems_Center and Army_Contracting_Command-Detroit Arsenal. Ground vehicle work of any kind runs through that campus.

Watch the boundary with CPE_Mission_Autonomy. Autonomous resupply and leader-follower convoy technology are being pulled toward the autonomy CPE while the trucks stay here.

See Also

• PAE_Agile_Sustainment_Ammo — parent portfolio
• CPE_Ammunition_Energetics — sister CPE under the same PAE
• CPE_Ground — sister organization at Detroit_Arsenal
• CPE_Mission_Autonomy — autonomous ground resupply
• AMC — the materiel command that sustains this equipment in the field
• Dispersal_Sustainment_Paradox, Multi_Domain_Operations
• ASAALT, T2COM, Sustainment_Center_of_Excellence
• Program Elements, Appropriations