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PM SWAR supports soldiers through the acquisition of warrior systems: Land Warrior, Air Warrior and Future Warrior. The product managers develop components into single integrated systems designed to increase combat effectiveness, decrease combat load and improve mission flexibility. Whenever possible, technologies are spiraled forward, out of these Warrior system programs to put them into the hands of soldiers more quickly.
Land Warrior (LW) is a first-generation, modular, integrated fighting system for infantry soldiers and soldiers in support of the close fight. LW combines an assortment of up-to-date commercial off-theshelf and government technologies with newly developed components and technologies to create a lethal, survivable soldier system linked into the digitized battlefield. LW combines computers, lasers, geolocation and radios with soldiers' mission equipment to achieve the Army Vision of enhancing the individual...