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Capability Program Executive Intelligence and Spectrum Warfare (CPE ISW)

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Capability Program Executive Intelligence and Spectrum Warfare (CPE ISW)

CPE ISW buys the Army’s sensing and spectrum layer: intelligence systems and analytics, electromagnetic warfare, terrestrial and aerial sensors, cyber tools, positioning, navigation and timing, biometrics, and space superiority. It is the former PEO Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors, redesignated twice, first as CPE IEW&S and then as CPE ISW.

TypeCapability Program Executive (CPE)
HeadquartersAberdeen_Proving_Ground, MD; offices at Fort_Belvoir, VA, Fort Eisenhower (Fort Gordon), GA, and Los Angeles AFB, CA
Capability Program ExecutiveChris_Manning, assumed the role 9 June 2026
Acting Deputy CPELaurence_Mixon
Prior CPEKevin_Chaney (BG), CPE IEW&S through mid-2026
Subordinate toPAE_C2_CC2 (Aberdeen_Proving_Ground, MD) for portfolio direction; ASAALT for acquisition authority
PredecessorPEO_IEWS

Mission

Technical and managerial oversight for development and acquisition of the Army’s intelligence, electronic warfare, cyber, integrated base defense, force protection, positioning-navigation-and-timing, biometrics, and target recognition programs. The office describes itself as seven project managers delivering capability now through affordable and adaptable programs.

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.

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Boundary in motion

The November 2025 reform plan moved terrestrial sensors toward PAE_Layered_Protection_CBRN and aircraft survivability equipment toward PAE_Maneuver_Air. As of mid-2026 the CPE ISW site still lists PM Terrestrial Sensors and an aircraft survivability product line. Verify the owning office in the solicitation itself.

Program Element families

See Program Elements and Budget Activities.

Why it matters

This is where the Army buys sensing, and sensing is the constraint. The Army’s operating problem is that it fights where it can see. Every long-range fires investment depends on a targeting chain this office owns.

Electronic warfare is in an acquisition upswing. The Army signalled in late 2025 that it would pursue a new airborne jammer and a lightweight ground EW capability in 2026, and the office ran its first commercial solutions opening focused on electromagnetic warfare in November 2025. CSOs are the practical entry point for non-traditional EW firms.

PNT is a growth line with a real supplier base. Assured PNT — anti-jam antennas, alternative navigation, chip-scale atomic clocks, sensor fusion — is funded, recurring, and open to specialists rather than primes.

Aerial ISR is consolidating around jet-based, contractor-operated systems. The HADES lineage moved Army deep sensing off turboprops onto business jets with a services-heavy operating model.

Intelligence data is being replatformed. AIDP is the intel-domain counterpart to what NGC2 is doing for C2. Expect the same pattern: open data layer, commercial analytics, application-level competition.

Contracting flows through Army_Contracting_Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground plus the Senior Contracting Official embedded at PAE_C2_CC2.

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