Capability Program Executive Integrated Fires (CPE Integrated Fires)
CPE Integrated Fires owns the connective tissue of the Army’s fires enterprise: the battle command, fire control, and targeting systems that turn a sensor track into a shot. It is the smallest of the three PAE_Fires CPEs by hardware volume and the most consequential by architecture. Its CPE is also the executive director of PAE Fires.
| Type | Capability Program Executive (CPE) |
| Headquarters | Redstone_Arsenal, Huntsville, AL |
| Capability Program Executive | Miranda_Oden, dual-hatted as Executive Director and Deputy to PAE_Fires |
| Subordinate to | PAE_Fires, led by Frank_Lozano (LTG); ASAALT for acquisition authority |
| Established | Activated 17 February 2026 at Redstone_Arsenal |
| Predecessor | PEO_Missiles_and_Space integrated air and missile defense project offices |
Mission
Integrate the fires kill chain across offensive and defensive systems: the Integrated Battle Command System, Army integrated air and missile defense battle command, field artillery fire control, joint targeting, and the interfaces that let a sensor owned by one CPE cue an effector owned by another. This is the office that makes CPE_Offensive_Fires and CPE_Defensive_Fires behave as one system.
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
Carried from the PEO_Missiles_and_Space integrated air and missile defense structure:
- PM_Integrated_Air_and_Missile_Defense (PM IAMD) — IBCS, IAMD battle command, the integrated fire control network
- PM_Mission_Command_Fires lineage — Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System and fire support C2, coordinated with CPE_C2_Information_Network
- Joint_Tactical_Ground_Station (JTAGS) — theater missile warning
- Fires integration and architecture directorates supporting PAE_Fires as a whole
Program Element families
- 0605457A Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense, the IBCS line
- 0606118A AIAMD Software Development
- 0604741A Air Defense Command, Control and Intelligence
- 0203728A Joint Automated Deep Operations Coordination System, the AFATDS lineage
- 0605216A Joint Targeting Integrated Command and Control
- 0208053A Joint Tactical Ground System
- 0604798A Brigade Analysis, Integration and Evaluation
- TPQ-53 Counterfire Target Acquisition
See Program Elements and Budget Activities.
Why it matters
IBCS is the architecture decision that determines who else can sell into air and missile defense. Every sensor and every shooter the Army wants to federate has to speak IBCS. Northrop Grumman is the integrator. The open-interface question, how easily a third-party radar or interceptor plugs in, is the live commercial issue.
Integration is where the software money is moving. As the Army pushes NGC2 as the C2 architecture and IBCS as the fires architecture, the seam between them is a funded problem. Firms that can do data fusion, machine-to-machine targeting, and fire control automation have a path here that does not require building hardware.
This office is a force multiplier on the other two CPEs. A vendor selling an effector to CPE_Defensive_Fires or a munition to CPE_Offensive_Fires still needs an integration answer from this office. Engaging it late is a common and expensive mistake.
The dual hat matters. The CPE is also PAE Fires’ executive director, which makes this office the practical clearinghouse for portfolio-level decisions across all of PAE_Fires.
See Also
- PAE_Fires — parent portfolio
- CPE_Offensive_Fires and CPE_Defensive_Fires — the effector CPEs this office integrates
- CPE_C2_Information_Network — NGC2 and the broader C2 architecture
- CPE_Intelligence_Spectrum_Warfare — the sensors feeding the kill chain
- Kill_Chain, JADC2, Sensing_vs_Timing, Multi_Domain_Operations
- ASAALT, T2COM, Fires_Center_of_Excellence
- Program Elements, Defense_Acquisition_System