Army PEO-EIS

On this episode of Women of Washington, Gigi Schumm welcomed Vicky Niblett, deputy assistant commissioner within the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service. In this role, she provides management and oversight of the Integrated Award Environment (IAE).

The Army is trying to stay on the cusp of defensive cyber technology by using a consortium of companies.

The Army believes it now has a workable strategy to buy cyber capabilities within 30 days, but it started by fixing its budgeting and requirements processes.

The Army says its new Task Management Tool has significantly sped up the paperwork process within the Pentagon, other Army headquarters organizations.

It’s now been a little over a year since the Army issued a highly-prescriptive directive, telling its commands and installations exactly which IT systems needed to move from which data centers, which data centers had…

ALTESS, an Army-operated cloud environment, saw its largest growth ever over the past year as data center closures forces legacy applications to new homes.

Army plans to assemble a vendor consortium with the goal of conducting 6-24 cyber prototyping projects a year, each within 30 days.

Rumors of the death of Army Knowledge Online — the web portal soldiers and Army civilians have used for everything from training to email since the 1990s — were evidently premature.

Charlie Armstrong called it a career after spending the last seven-plus years as the assistant commissioner for the Office of Information and Technology and CIO for CBP.

The Army has issued a request for information, asking cloud vendors to describe their capabilities in more than 30 separate areas that could help it move its applications from government data centers to modern commercial hosting environments.