PEO Pulse - June 26, 2020

►► UPCOMING EVENTS

• 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)

• July 23 – AFCEA Belvoir speaking engagement by John Howell (virtual event)

►► PEO EIS IN THE NEWS

FIVE TOP TAKEAWAYS ON THE DAY IN A LIFE OF A DEPUTY PRODUCT MANAGER/LEAD

(June 23, 2020)
Several current and former deputy product managers and leads from PEO EIS shared their backgrounds, activities and perspectives at a June 18 virtual Lunch and Learn on “A Day in the Life of a Deputy Product Manager/Lead,” organized by PEO EIS’s Strategic Communication Directorate.

►► GOOD TO KNOW

ACT DEVSECOPS SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP KICKS OFF JUNE 30

Applied Cyber Technologies (ACT) is pleased to announce the kick-off of ACT’s “Special Interest Groups (SIGs).” ACT’s SIGs will provide a forum to discuss critical topics in technology and debate different approaches to common problems. Each SIG topic will be presented as a series, and each series will contain three to six sessions. The first SIG, “DevSecOps Special Interest Group,” will feature Donny Davis, vice president, solution architecture, oRock Technologies. Davis is an accomplished information technology professional with a significant experience in cloud, containers and big data platforms. He also is a former Army Satellite Communication Systems Operator-Maintainer (25S). The session will start with a SIG primer and a discussion of DRUID (Defensive Cyber Operations Resource for Updates, Innovation, and Development), ACT’s continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.

Event Date/Time: June 30, 11:00 to 11:45 a.m. via Microsoft Teams. 

FCW’S & DEFENSE SYSTEMS’ DOD CLOUD WORKSHOP ON JULY 15

The USAF/A1 portfolio now utilizes five commercial cloud service offerings in a powerful, integrated multi-cloud environment. Register for the DOD Cloud Workshop on July 15 and watch as U.S. Air Force CTO Jason Howe shares the genesis of their cloud efforts in 2016. He'll discuss why multiple clouds are required for the A1 mission and how they are empowering mission owners in their portfolio to rapidly deploy secure capabilities in common cloud platforms. Registration free for government and military.

Event Date/Time: July 15, 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. View event info: FCW.com/DODCloud.

►► WORKFORCE

WHITE HOUSE PRIORITIZES SKILLS-BASED FEDERAL HIRING IN EXECUTIVE ORDER

(Fedscoop, June 26, 2020)

President Trump will sign an executive order Friday allowing federal agencies to prioritize skills-based hiring in addition to traditional educational-based requirements.

HOW COVID-19 COULD CHANGE THE MAKEUP OF THE FEDERAL WORKFORCE

(Nextgov, June 24, 2020)

One benefit of a global pandemic forcing workers to stay home is that it highlights geographic restrictions in the hiring process that no longer apply, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Christopher Krebs said.

OPM: SOME FEDS’ LEAVE CANCELED BECAUSE OF COVID-19 WILL BE RESTORED

(Government Executive, June 19, 2020)

The Office of Personnel Management on Thursday announced that it is planning to issue regulations to allow agencies to restore federal employees' so-called "use or lose" annual leave that was canceled so they could work on the response to the coronavirus pandemic.

►► ARMY NEWS

ARMY UNVEILS NEW INITIATIVE TO PROMOTE DIVERSITY, INCLUSION ACROSS THE FORCE

(Army.mil, June 25, 2020)

The Secretary of the Army and Chief of Staff of the Army today announced a new initiative, Project Inclusion, to improve diversity, equity and inclusion across the force and build cohesive teams.

PANDEMIC DOESN’T SLOW CYBER TRAINING FOR THE ARMY

(Fifth Domain, June 25, 2020)

While much of the national security community has had to rethink or delay operations and business practices because of the global pandemic, the Army’s cyber school has been able to carry on business as usual due to prior investments in online tools and virtual training environments.

UNISSANT TO HELP ARMY BUILD CLOUD-BASED HEALTH DATA MANAGEMENT PLATFORM

(ExecutiveBiz, June 24, 2020)

Unissant has secured a contract to help the U.S. Army's Medical Research and Development Command develop, test and deploy a cloud-based technology platform for managing health information.

►► FEDERAL NEWS

“LIGHTNING IN HER VEINS:’ HOW KATIE ARRINGTON IS CONVINCING DEFENSE CONTRACTORS TO LOVE CYBERSECURITY

(C4ISRNET, June 25, 2020)

Katie Arrington’s job is to win the room.

She’s at San Francisco’s Moscone Center on Feb. 26 at the RSA Conference, one of the largest cybersecurity events

SENATE WANTS BETTER THREAT SHARING BETWEEN PENTAGON AND INDUSTRY

(C4ISRNET, June 25, 2020)

The Department of Defense would be required to establish a threat intelligence sharing program with the defense industrial base under the Senate Armed Services Committee’s version of the annual defense policy bill.

FCC CRACKS UNDER HILL PRESSURE ON LIGADO 5G NETWORK

(Breaking Defense, June 25, 2020)

As opposition mounts from Capitol Hill — as well as a wider swath of civil GPS users — to the FCC’s approval of Ligado’s controversial 5G network, at least one of the five commissioners now says she’d be willing to consider reversing the decision.

SMOOTH SWITCH TO TELEWORK WAS YEARS IN THE MAKING

(Federal News Network, June 23, 2020)

IT Modernization became an even higher priority for federal agencies once coronavirus landed on the United States like a ton of bricks earlier this year.

TETRA TECH’S VINCENT HOLLOWAY DISCUSSES ADVANCED IT SOLUTIONS FOR THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

(CSRwire, June 22, 2020)

Vincent Holloway is Vice President, Defense Information Technology (IT) Services in Tetra Tech’s Arlington, Virginia, office.

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