Gus Burnside, II, product lead for the Army Enterprise Staff Management System (AESMS) program, is today’s #PEOEISTeammateTuesday. Before joining PEO EIS, Burnside supported the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics and Global Threats at U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) managing counternarcotics and law-enforcement programs for 11 African countries. He answered seven questions about his career and life.

When Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) programs first hit the scene in the 1990s, they touted their “open architecture” as helping companies and organizations avoid replacement of full systems at the end of a technology lifecycle. The central idea was to continue to build on a core platform and add specific capabilities as the enterprise’s needs arose over the years. And such needs did arise – especially for the U.S. Army.

Brent Thomas, the product lead for Human Resource (HR) Solutions, is today’s #PEOEISTeammateTuesday. Brent has more than 24 years of acquisition experience and currently manages a $7.6 billion assisted-acquisition-management program that awards contracts for Army and Department of Defense customers. He ended his impressive 22-year service in the Army as a senior acquisition officer at Fort Knox managing material capability requirements for platform battle command systems. An Iowa native with a thirst for adventure, he enjoys off-road motorcycle riding. Thomas answered eight questions about his career and life.

FORT BELVOIR, Va. – The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the Department of Defense (DOD) to demonstrate emergency operational readiness and deployment capabilities at lightning speed. PEO EIS’s Automated Movement and Identification Solutions (AMIS) is one of the many program offices specifically tapped to support these efforts. In order to plan and execute unit movements and coordinate transportation requests throughout the world, the DOD relies on the essential services provided in the AMIS Transportation Coordinators’ Automated Identifications Movement Solutions II (TC-AIMS II) application Unit Move module.