PEO EIS Program Executive Officer Bill Hepworth joined a distinguished panel of Army acquisition and information technology leaders May 9 for an AFCEA NOVA webinar on the Army’s software modernization initiatives.

During a keynote address on digital transformation at AFCEA NOVA’s virtual Army IT Day on Jan. 13, Army Chief Information Officer (CIO) Dr. Raj Iyer discussed the importance of data-driven decision-making to multi-domain operations success and emphasized the need to shift from a system- or platform-centric acquisition approach to a data-centric acquisition approach.

On day two of AFCEA NOVA’s Army IT Days — held virtually from Jan. 21-22 — PEO EIS program executive officer Ross Guckert took part in the Army Data Environments panel with Dr. David Markowitz, chief data officer, U.S. Army CIO; Dovarius Peoples, director of corporate information, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE); and Robin Swan, director of the Office of Business Transformation, Office of the Secretary of the Army.