Happy New Year! This is my final Perspective as PEO, as I retire and leave PEO EIS in the most capable hands. I have a few words to leave you with — but first, some important information to share with you as we jump into 2024.

U.S. Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) officially shut down its Headquarters Army Environmental System (HQAES) product office Jan. 13, transferring the Army’s environmental program data to the Web Compliance Assessment and Sustainment System-Enterprise (WEBCASS-E) at the Deputy Chief of Staff (DCS), G-9. WEBCASS-E, a commercial off-the-shelf system used by the Army for over 20 years, will serve as the replacement program and the Army’s enterprise system of record for environmental data. 

A systems engineer with more than 25 years of IT experience, Andrew Parr leads the cloud, facilities engineering and systems engineering teams at the Acquisition Logistics and Technology Enterprise Systems and Services (ALTESS) product office in Radford, Virginia.

Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) held a “Forecast to Industry” — the first event of its kind — Nov. 30 at the Defense Acquisition University’s Howell Auditorium at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

On Nov. 15, Ross Guckert, the program executive officer at U.S. Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS), told a packed room of AFCEA Belvoir luncheon attendees that he will be retiring from federal service in January 2024.  

It’s hard to believe it’s November already, and we’re well into our new fiscal year. With it comes a lot of change, and as always, a great deal to share with you. Let’s get right to it:  

IEN/DCO FAREWELL 

Last fall at the Association of the United States Army’s annual conference, PEO EIS Program Executive Officer Ross Guckert said one of the key pillars in his acquisition organization’s Agile journey was the transformation of how software testing is conducted.

U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems, recently launched the Army Contract Writing System, a platform designed to provide the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement with a single enterprise writing and management system to streamline the Army contracting process.

As deputy project manager for Enterprise Services at PEO EIS, Sergio Alvarez helps lead the project office responsible for acquiring, fielding and performing lifecycle sustainment of enterprise-level services supporting many of the Army chief information officer’s largest enterprise initiatives.

The U.S. Army has begun previewing its 21st century talent acquisition solution, the Accessions Information Environment (AIE), to select users from the active-duty Army, Army National Guard and Army Reserve.