ON THE MOVE
PROGRAM EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR SIMULATION, TRAINING AND INSTRUMENTATION
1: PEO STRI WELCOMES NEW LEADER
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Karen D.H. Saunders took over the leader- ship responsibilities for the Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumen- tation (PEO STRI) during a July 24 assumption of charter ceremony. A member of the Senior Executive Service, she joined the PEO after serving as chief of staff for the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment (USD(A&S)). In that capacity, she was respon- sible to the USD(A&S) for daily management and operation on all matters pertaining to ac- quisition; contract administration; logistics and materiel readiness; installations, environment and operational energy; chemical, biological and nuclear weapons; the acquisition work- force; and the defense industrial base.
In her new role, she will oversee the execution of a multibillion-dollar program annually, and will lead a workforce of more than 1,000 mili- tary, government civilian and service support contractors. PEO STRI also manages foreign military sales programs that support more than 65 partner countries.
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A retired Army officer with 30 years of service, Saunders was commissioned as a Military In- telligence Corps second lieutenant upon grad- uation from Oklahoma State University. She held a variety of command and staff assign- ments in military intelligence and in operations research and systems analysis before joining the Army Acquisition Corps. Her culminating assignment in Army acquisition before she re- tired in December 2014 as a colonel was as the chief of staff in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology. Before that, she served on the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s staff and in numerous roles for the Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan. Saunders’ other acquisition assignments included proj- ect director and project manager, both at PEO STRI, and product manager for Future Combat System – Battle Command.
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Saunders holds an M.S. in computer science, with a focus in artificial intelligence and robot- ics, from the Naval Postgraduate School, an
M.S. in national security strategy from the Na- tional War College and a B.S. in mathematics. She is Level III certified in program manage- ment.
Saunders takes over leadership of PEO STRI from Senior Executive Service member Timo- thy F. Bishop, who served briefly as acting program executive officer after being deputy PEO since January 2019. He continues as deputy PEO.
2: SOLDIER TRAINING LEADERSHIP CHANGE PEO STRI welcomed a new leader for the Proj- ect Manager for Soldier Training (PM ST) in a change of charter ceremony June 17. During the ceremony, the outgoing project manager, Col. G. Scott McLeod, left, passed the char- ter to Col. Cory Berg, right, who will lead PM ST in its mission of improving Soldier readi- ness using realistic training environments and equipment at home stations, combat training centers and deployed locations.
3: MMS GETS NEW PM, MOVES TO DHA Jude Tomasello, left, assumed the charter of the Joint Project Manager for Medical Model- ing and Simulation (JPM MMS) during a June 26 ceremony, taking over for Col. Scott McIn- tosh, right. JPM MMS, which had been part of PEO STRI since 2016, was then transferred to the Defense Health Agency (DHA) in August. The project has succeeded in fielding high- tech medical simulations for Soldiers, with the singular goal of saving lives. Moving to the DHA will enhance the team’s mission to pro- mote and better integrate medical simulation capability across the Military Health System.
4: SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMENT CHANGE OF CHARTER Col. Nicole Reinhardt, left, assumed the leadership role for Project Manager, Synthetic Environment (PM SE), replacing Col. Marcus Varnadore, right, in a July 8 change of charter ceremony. PM SE provides relevant integrated modeling and simulation capabilities to achieve Army readiness. It merges virtual, constructive and gaming products into one structure.
Army AL&T Magazine
Fall 2020
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