The defense acquisition community eagerly awaited updates to the 5000 Series acquisition guidance, originally published in 2015. The nation’s threat landscape has accelerated exponentially over the past few years, and it was clear we needed acquisition policies that allowed for more flexible and accelerated programs.

On Jan. 4, Lt. Gen. Bob Marion, Army Acquisition Corps director and principal military deputy to the assistant secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASA(ALT)), announced the winners of the 2020 Maj. Gen. Harold J. “Harry” Greene Awards for Acquisition Writing, and PEO EIS brought home one of the top honors.

The concept of DevSecOps has taken on added impetus now that Katie Arrington, the DOD’s chief information security officer at the office of assistant secretary of defense for acquisition, said the department should step up its efforts to change workforce culture around it.

Maj. Nicole Meruvia is a confident leader who learned a lot of lessons in the school of hard knocks. As the assistant product manager for two programs—Mission Planning and Threat Emulation—Meruvia helped Defensive Cyber Operations award a Federal Acquisition Regulation-based contract within 90 days under an Agile 874 software-development-program pilot. She answered eight questions about her career and life.

FORT BELVOIR, Va. ­­– A change of charter ceremony for PEO EIS’s Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) took place July 30, commemorating the passing of the reins of responsibility from outgoing project manager (PM), Col. Chad Harris, to incoming PM, Col. Mark Taylor.

FORT BELVOIR, Va. – Applied Cyber Technologies (ACT)—a component of PEO EIS’s Defense Cyber Operations (DCO) program—recently celebrated the completion of its first two milestones in the development of its cloud-based continuous integration/continuous delivery(CI/CD) pipeline known as DRUID.

Nicole Woodruff provides executive support to Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) senior leaders. Born in Schenectady, New York, she has lived in Alaska, California and Virginia. A motivated mother, she takes Orangetheory classes to stay in shape and is pursuing a college degree in business management. If you see her in the hallway, she will probably give you a friendly wave. Woodruff, today’s #PEOEISTeammateTuesday, answered 10 questions about her career and life.

NEW ISSUE OF ARMY AL&T EXPLORES ‘FIELDING THE FUTURE’

Defensive Cyber Operations, Cyber Platforms and Systems creates a modular,