Vincent “Vince” Hayes is chief of the Lifecycle Management Division for Integrated Personnel and Pay System – Army (IPPS-A).

Back in January 2022, Army Deputy Chief of Staff, G-6 Lt. Gen. John Morrison said there were two priorities for setting unified network operations (UNO) in support of multi-domain operations: figuring out how to do UNO at the tactical edge and creating the requirements definition package for identity, credential and access management (ICAM).

PEO EIS held a renaming ceremony on March 16 for its Defense Communications and Army Transmission Systems (DCATS) project management office, which now is officially known as Project Manager Integrated Enterprise Network (PM IEN).

An IT software expert with 32 years of Army contracting experience, Stacy Watson leads a 14-person team that manages the lifecycle of 177 Computer Hardware, Enterprise Software and Solutions (CHESS) hardware, software and IT-services contracts worth more than $23 billion. Watson leads by example. “Everything that I ask anybody to do, I would do myself or have done myself,” she said. Today’s #PEOEISTeammateTuesday, Watson answered eight questions.

“My job involves helping people, which is the best part about it,” said Karen Monahan, a contracting expert who possesses a rock-solid understanding of Army regulations and policies. In a typical day, Monahan doles out business advice to PEO EIS program offices about contracting, pricing and source-selection requirements in the Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense Acquisition Regulation Supplement. She also manages the source-selection process for professional-services contracts, evaluates contractor performance and updates the PEO EIS procurement forecast. We asked Monahan, today’s #PEOEISTeammateTuesday, eight questions about her career and life.

As part of the Army’s ongoing effort to modernize and enhance the service’s readiness, it is currently upgrading one of its most pivotal communication and logistics processes — the Total Asset Visibility (TAV) In-transit Processing Station – Write (TIPS-Write) software platform.  

“Part of my job includes understanding where technology is headed and what innovative solutions can enhance the Army network,” said Bob Carroll, lead engineer for the Defense Communications and Army Transmission Systems (DCATS) project management office in PEO EIS’s Enterprise Information Environment Mission Area.

PEO EIS’s Acquisition Innovation Directorate (AID), formerly known as Director, Acquisition and Systems Management/Strategic Initiatives Group (DASM/SIG), recently changed its name to more clearly reflect how team members assist PEO EIS and its program managers.