The Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) celebrated the Army’s 240th Birthday at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, on Friday, June 12, with an Army Birthday cookout followed by an official observance and cake cutting on the Headquarters PEO EIS lawn.

PEO EIS conducted a CHESS Industry Day event June 10 in Wallace Theater, Fort Belvoir, Va. Over 500 attendees participated in this event that includes an audience comprised of DA civilians, military, contractors and private industry. Army Contracting Command – Rock Island (ACC-RI) personnel were present to brief on upcoming contracts.

Project Manager, Defense Communications and Army Transmission Systems (PM DCATS) COL Charles Stein hosted an Assumption of Charter ceremony on June 4 at Fort Belvoir, Va., to officially recognize the change in leadership for the Product Director Wideband Enterprise Satellite Systems (WESS).

Mr. Jeremy Hiers, Project Director, Enterprise Services (PD ES), was the keynote speaker at the AFCEA Belvoir Chapter’s monthly luncheon at the Fort Belvoir Officer’s Club, 1130-1300.

COL Darrell Bennis, PEO EIS Military Deputy (MILDEP) was the guest speaker at the AFCEA Belvoir Chapter’s Annual Scholarship Awards Event at the Fort Belvoir Officer’s Club, 1000-1045.

The Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station, Pacific (NCTAMS PAC) commemorated the acceptance of a new state-of-the-art satellite communications (SATCOM) terminal during a ribbon cutting ceremony April 16, 2015, in Wahiawa, Hawaii.

A fond farewell to Mr. Dawson Shepherd, management analyst from the Army Budget Office, who recently completed a 90 day developmental assignment at PEO EIS' Program Management Division.

The ordering period for the Computer Hardware, Enterprise Software and Solutions (CHESS) Information Technology Enterprise Solutions (ITES)–2S contracts has been extended by 36 months.

Mollie Pearson, Product Manager (PdM) for Power Projection Enablers (P2E), was promoted to the rank of Colonel, United States Army, in a ceremony led by Mr. Douglas K. Wiltsie, United States Army Program Executive Officer Enterprise Information Systems, March 27 at the Fort Belvoir Officer’s Club, Fort Belvoir, Va.