Mr. Ross Guckert, program executive officer for PEO EIS, manages a $4.3 billion annual budget that supports 36 program offices and 71 acquisition programs. A Pittsburgh native and passionate Steelers fan, he earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Mr. Guckert answered five questions about his career and life.

Ashley Tolbert, today’s #PEOEISTeammateTuesday, manages events for the PEO EIS Strategic Communication Directorate. Never reluctant to tackle new projects, she organized the inaugural PEO EIS All Saints Ball and managed the very-first PEO EIS town hall on Microsoft Teams.

Summer is always a time of great transition in Army acquisition programs, and if you are keeping track, we have had quite a few changes in recent months (please see last month’s Perspective for recent leadership changes).

Maj. Nicole Meruvia is a confident leader who learned a lot of lessons in the school of hard knocks. As the assistant product manager for two programs—Mission Planning and Threat Emulation—Meruvia helped Defensive Cyber Operations award a Federal Acquisition Regulation-based contract within 90 days under an Agile 874 software-development-program pilot. She answered eight questions about her career and life.

Deidra McCaskill, the Enterprise Content Collaboration and Messaging (EC2M) product lead, manages five enterprise IT programs and a $137 million annual operating budget. She answered 11 questions about her career and life.

FORT BELVOIR, Va. – The Army Computer Hardware Enterprise Software and Solutions (CHESS) office, in coordination with the Army Contracting Command – Rock Island (ACC-RI), awarded a contract extension for Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software (ITES-SW) on August 5, 2020.

The Army is taking proactive steps as an institution to leverage data as a strategic asset. The intent of this effort is to increase the speed of data informed decision-making, while delivering cloud enabled next generation capabilities in a fundamentally different way.

Nicole Woodruff provides executive support to Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) senior leaders. Born in Schenectady, New York, she has lived in Alaska, California and Virginia. A motivated mother, she takes Orangetheory classes to stay in shape and is pursuing a college degree in business management. If you see her in the hallway, she will probably give you a friendly wave. Woodruff, today’s #PEOEISTeammateTuesday, answered 10 questions about her career and life.

FORT BELVOIR, Va. ­­– PEO EIS’s assistant PEO for networks, cyber and services, John Howell, provided an update on the PEO, discussed business opportunities within his portfolio and answered questions from industry representatives at AFCEA Belvoir’s July 22 virtual luncheon.