Major Leilani Tydingco, PD AMIS, and Dr. Daniel Parker, PD AESIP Hub, are 2015 GWAC SOLE Award winners. They are pictured here receiving their awards at the official ceremony at the Fort Myer Officer's Club October 29. Congratulations, MAJ Tydingco and Dr. Parker!

Global Combat Support System-Army (GCSS-Army), the Army’s largest, most ambitious Enterprise Resource Planning solution, was recently named one of the 10 GCN IT Excellence Award winners. The 28th annual award ceremony was held October 14, 2015, at the Ritz Carlton, Tyson’s Corner, Virginia. Product Manager LTC Christopher Romero accepted the award.

Project Manager, Defense Communications and Army Transmission Systems (PM DCATS) COL Charles Stein hosted an Assumption of Charter ceremony on August 14, 2015 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, to officially recognize the change in leadership for the Product Director Wideband Enterprise Satellite Systems (PD WESS). The incoming PD WESS, LTC Joel Babbitt, accepted responsibility for the program from the outgoing PD WESS, Mr. Michael McGarvey.

General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS) Project Manager COL William Russell hosted the GFEBS Increment II assumption of charter ceremony July 31 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and welcomed back Mr. Brendan Burke. Mr. Burke, former Computer Hardware, Enterprise Software and Solutions product director, returns to PEO EIS from Army Senior Service College.

PEO EIS held a ceremony July 30 at the George Washington Masonic National Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia to officially recognize the change of charter for the Integrated Personnel and Pay System – Army (IPPS-A) Increment (INC) II.

On July 29, the Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) Product Director, Enterprise Computing (PD EC), hosted 129 industry and government representatives at an Army Cloud Hosting Contract Vehicle (CHCV) Industry Day at Fort Belvoir.

Mr. Michael Padden, Project Manager Installation Information Infrastructure – Communications and Capabilities (I3C2), hosted a change of charter ceremony July 10 officially transferring the Project Manager I3MP charter, which becomes a product director position, from LTC Robert “RJ” Mikesh to LTC Gus Muller.

Mr. Bezwada provided an overview of the current threats to the network that have informed DoD's network priorities. Chief among these is to ensure complete operational awareness across the network to identify threats and provide cyber defenses. The Joint Regional Security Stacks that are currently being fielded help achieve this vision by replacing the thousands of individual installation firewalls with a handful of robust, standard security stacks.