PEO Pulse - June 19, 2020

►► UPCOMING EVENTS

• June 23 – Newcomer’s Brief (conducted on CVR/Teams)

• June 26 – WESS Change of Charter Ceremony (virtual event)

• July 9 – ALTESS Change of Charter Ceremony (Radford, Virginia)

• July 14 – PEO’s Inaugural Town Hall (conducted on CVR/Teams)

• July 14-16 – SIGNAL Conference (virtual event)

►► WORKFORCE

JUNETEENTH: Commemorating Emancipation

While President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect Jan. 1, 1863, declaring "all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State... shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free," it wouldn't be until two and a half years later, on June 19, 1865, that Gen. Gordon Granger and his Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War had ended and any enslaved people were freed by executive order.

Celebrations began soon after as church-centered community gatherings in Texas which spread across the South and grew throughout the 1920s and 30s. During the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, the celebration of Juneteenth was somewhat eclipsed by the struggle, but grew again in popularity in the 1970s with a focus on African American culture and heritage.

Today, Juneteenth is celebrated in most major cities across the United States.

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►► PEO EIS IN THE NEWS

THE HALO EFFECT

(DVIDS/U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center, June 18, 2020)
The Army’s Health Assessment Lite Operations (HALO) application was deployed to medical forces during the recent COVID-19 pandemic.

AMIS DEMONSTRATES ARMY READINESS DURING DEFENDER-EUROPE 20

(June 17, 2020) DEFENDER-Europe 20 [Dynamic Employment of Forces to Europe for NATO Deterrence and Enhanced Readiness – Europe 20] began in May 2020 with the primary objective of fully testing combined military readiness through the deployment of a large combat force in conjunction with U.S. allies and NATO partners.

STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS SHOW IPPS-A RELEASE 3 DESIGN AND BUILD ARE ON TRACK

(June 15, 2020) The author Paulo Coelho once said, “People never learn anything by being told. They have to find out for themselves.” For the Integrated Personnel and Pay System – Army (IPPS-A), determining how to proceed with building the system was something learned through trial and error, not through instruction.

ENLIGHTEN IT SECURES $42.5M PEO EIS PRODUCTION AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE CLOUD SUPPORT TO U.S. ARMY

(ExecutiveGov, June 16, 2020) Enlighten IT Consulting, a subsidiary of Alion Science and Technology, has been awarded a 48-month, $42.5 million follow-on production agreement by the U.S. Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS), Alion announced on Tuesday. 

►► ARMY NEWS

A PROBLEM SOLVER TAKES ON ACQUISITION

 (DVIDS/U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center, June 18, 2020) Since he was just a kid, Giovanni Oddo has been fixing things. The middle child and only boy in his family, he stepped into the role of the household “fixer-in-residence” while his dad worked nights building, repairing and later managing newspaper presses.

ARMY DELAYS FINAL RFP OF ENCRYPTION DEVICE

(C4ISRNET, June 18, 2020) The Army program executive office responsible for network modernization is delaying the release of the final request for proposals for an advanced encryption device, in the meantime considering if it should award the contract to two vendors. 

ARMY’S NEW CIVILIAN IMPLEMENTATION PLAN EMPHASIZES TALENT MANAGEMENT

(Army.mil, June 15, 2020) The Army is improving the way it acquires, develops, employs and retains its civilian workforce under the new Civilian Implementation Plan, or CIP.

ARMY RELEASES $1B CYBER TRAINING REQUEST

(Fifth Domain, June 13, 2020) The Army released its highly anticipated request for proposals June 11 for a contract that could be worth as much as $1 billion to provide cyber training for the Department of Defense.

►► FEDERAL NEWS

GAO FINDS EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY IS INCREASING FROM HOME

(Federal News Network, June 18, 2020) Federal employees working from home largely report being more productive than when they go into the office — and while large-scale oversight efforts from the Government Accountability Office have only just started, GAO has acknowledged that it’s also seeing improvements from its own employees.

NSA PILOTING SECURE DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM SERVICE FOR DEFENSE CONTRACTORS

(Nextgov, June 18, 2020) The National Security Agency is six weeks into a pilot program where a private third party is providing select companies from the defense industrial base with services to secure their domain name system use.

NSA REVISES GUIDANCE ON TELEWORKING SERVICES FOR GOVERNMENT USERS

(Nextgov, June 18, 2020) The National Security Agency updated guidance to help federal agencies choose secure collaboration services, changing its determination of whether a number of products offered end-to-end encryption and other security features. 

RETIRING DOD DEPUTY CIO REFLECTS ON A LONG CAREER IN FEDERAL SERVICE

(Federal News Service, June 17, 2020) After a career spanning almost four decades, Essye Miller, the Defense Department’s first black female principal deputy CIO is retiring.

FEDRAMP AGENCY LIAISONS AND PILOTS ARE KEY TO STREAMLINING PROGRAM, ITIF REPORT SAYS

(Fedscoop, June 17, 2020) Agencies continue to lose out on potential savings because the federal process for authorizing and continuously monitoring the security of cloud services remains lengthy, costly and inconsistent, according to the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation.

FOR THE FIRST TIME, CYBER COMMAND’S MAJOR EXERCISE WILL USE NEW TRAINING PLATFORM

(Fifth Domain, June 16, 2020) U.S. Cyber Command’s annual training exercise will rely entirely on a new platform this year, a move that will allow most participants to compete remotely.

NEW COLLABORATION TOOLS AND CONTROLS HAD MADE DOD TELEWORK SAFER

(C4ISRNET, June 16, 2020) The adoption and use of new tools have made Department of Defense networks safer from increased cyberthreats during this time of heightened remote telework, officials say.

MILITARY IT LEADERS PREP FOR AN “EVEN WORSE” SECOND WAVE OF CORONAVIRUS

(C4ISRNET, June 15, 2020) Several high-ranking military IT officials are preparing for a second wave of the coronavirus, and expect the network infrastructure they scrambled to piece together three months ago to remain in place after the pandemic.

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