The Army Enterprise Staff Management System’s (AESMS) Enterprise Task Management Software Solution (ETMS2) is modernizing the Department of Defense (DOD) by updating its task management and document routing processes.

There is a saying, “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.” Lt. Col. Scott Davis has always kept mischief at bay by tinkering in his garage. Some of his favorite tinkering hobbies include woodworking, home repair and auto repair; however, they are difficult to partake in at his current house because it does not have a garage. To keep his hands from going idle, Davis has reorganized the kitchen cabinets multiple times, causing his family to not know where the utensils, seasonings, plates, cups, and more have been moved to. “Tinkering is a great hobby because you learn many practical skills, how to improve on outcomes or even just to escape the world for a few minutes,” said Davis. “However, my tinkering hobby can drive my wife nuts because I’m always doing something. The next house needs a garage or I may never be allowed in the kitchen again.”

Adam Rothschild was six years old when he saw a Gregory Hines tap-dancing routine on television. “I loved the rhythm Hines could produce from his movements,” Rothschild said. After taking tap-dancing lessons for 12 years, Rothschild was part of a duo that nabbed second place at a national high school tap-dancing competition. “Tap dancing appealed to me because I enjoyed breaking up a full routine into little components and steps that you can explain and teach,” Rothschild said. “I’ve applied that to my current role supporting Virtual Contracting Enterprise (VCE) users. I break up a process into little steps that enable users to get from one point to the other. There is skill in understanding that process so well that you can look outside those steps to see where something in them is wrong.”

PEO EIS’ Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Enterprise Systems and Services (ALTESS) product office, part of the Enterprise Services portfolio, teamed with several other Army organizations and successfully completed the migration of 45 Army Materiel Command (AMC) applications from the Defense Information System Agency’s (DISA) milCloud® 2.0 to the Enterprise Cloud Management Agency’s (ECMA) cARMY cloud in May 2022.

Summer has just begun, and it's already been a busy season filled with transitioning leaders here at PEO EIS.

ACC-Rock Island released a DRAFT Prototype Project Opportunity Notice (PPON) and Statement of Need to receive industry comment and feedback on the Army's approach for an Enterprise Business Systems - Convergence (EBS-C) Prototype Project. In addition to the DRAFT PPON, the Army has included a Request for Information (RFI) Template for Industry (PPON Attachment 0000) to provide responses to seven Question Topics related to this notice. Industry should use the Question Template (PPON Attachment 0001) to submit any questions or comments. The RFI responses and questions are due by 1 p.m. ET on July 29.

PEO EIS' Cyber Directorate — responsible for supporting the acquisition organization’s cybersecurity needs — recently collaborated with PEO Soldier on a professional development exercise designed to provide the PEO Soldier workforce with insight into the U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM) Risk Management Framework/Authority to Operate assessment criteria.