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.

Recently Army Training Information System (ATIS) — part of PEO EIS’s General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS) — was able to provide assistance critical to career progression to some deployed Soldiers in Poland.

Five former program executive officers for PEO EIS joined current program executive officer Ross Guckert and other Army leaders August 27 to celebrate the retirement of Logistics Information Systems (LIS) product lead Ricky Daniels and to welcome James O. Winbush Jr. as the new LIS product lead.

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.

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia – The Army Computer Hardware Enterprise Software and Solutions (CHESS) office, in coordination with Army Contracting Command – Rock Island (ACC-RI), awarded the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2 (ITES-SW2) contract—a $13 billion firm-fixed-price, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract vehicle—on August 31, 2020.

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).

Deidra McCaskill formally accepted the charter for PEO EIS’s Enterprise Content Collaboration and Messaging (EC2M) product office in a virtual assumption of charter ceremony Aug. 20.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Soldiers and Department of the Army civilians tuned into Microsoft Teams on Monday, Aug. 10, to hear Army leaders discuss PEO EIS's Integrated Personnel Pay System-Army (IPPS-A), a new, cutting-edge online human resources (HR) system that is modernizing the force.

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.