Soldier Integrated Protective Ensemble

The Soldier Integrated Protective Ensemble (SIPE) program was a soldier modernization effort for combat ground troops of the United States Army. It focused on the areas of battery-powered items, such as individual soldier computers, heads-up displays, combat optics, aural boosting and protection, and microclimate conditioning. The SIPE system also included a modular clothing and equipment system. With SIPE, the Army began treating the individual soldier's combat equipment as one integrated system rather than an assortment of individual components.

The SIPE system was developed as a potential replacement for the standard Battle Dress Uniform (BDU), Battle Dress Overgarment (BDO), body armor (PASGT), and load bearing equipment (LBE, e.g. ALICE or IIFS) of past.

SIPE was succeeded by Land Warrior, and certain technologies developed under the SIPE program were migrated directly to LW. Provided by Wikipedia