ON THE MOVE
NEW DEPUTY PEO FOR STRI
The PEO for Simulation, Training & Instrumentation (STRI) welcomed Chérie Smith as the deputy program executive officer (DPEO). She assumed the role in October 2015, joining the PEO STRI team from her
position as the acting
executive director for ASA(ALT). She pre- viously served as the assistant deputy for acquisition and systems management at ASA(ALT).
Smith is no stranger to PEO STRI, hav-
ing served a four-month assignment as the acting DPEO early in 2015. She brings to the job more than 30 years of government experience in
all levels of technology management and development. She began her career in the U.S. Army Reserve and served from 1979 to 1985 on active duty, developing software applications at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and U.S. Army Health Care Systems Support Activity.
She served as the program manager for the General Fund Enterprise Busi- ness Systems (GFEBS) from 2003 to 2008, establishing the program office and leading GFEBS from initial concept through system development and demonstration. Smith also served as director of Forward Operations – Kuwait, where she coordinated the fielding of more than 200 critical programs and led the effort to assess the complex fielding of rolling stock programs coming from Iraq and redeploying to Afghanistan.
CABANISS LEAVES MICC FOR VA George Cabaniss, an SES appointee serving as the deputy to the commanding general of the U.S. Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command (MICC), departed in December 2015 to become the deputy chief procurement officer with the Procurement and Logistics Office in the Veterans Health Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Cabaniss had served as the deputy since December 2011. Before joining the MICC headquarters staff, Cabaniss spent more than three years as chief of the Contracting Office at ACC-APG. He was appointed to the SES in December 2011.
BRYCE REPLACES SPENCER AT JPEO-CBD Douglas W. Bryce, the new Joint Program Executive Officer for Chemi- cal and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD), left, accepts the organization’s colors from the Hon. Heidi Shyu, ASA(ALT), as MSG Aki Paylor, JPEO-CBD senior enlisted adviser, and outgoing JPEO-CBD Carmen J. Spencer look on during an Oct. 22, 2015, change-of-charter ceremony at APG.
The ceremony marked the end of Spencer’s 45-year government career. In attendance were LTG Thomas W. Spoehr, director of the Army Office of Business Transformation in the Office of the Under Secretary of the Army; Dean G. Popps, former ASA(ALT) and Army acquisition executive; Douglas Bruder, director of research and development for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA); and ASA(ALT) Principal Deputy Gabriel Camarillo. Shyu presented Spencer’s wife, Patricia Spencer, with the Army Acquisition Letter of Appreciation, and gave the couple a flag that had flown on the MV Cape Ray during a 2015 chemi- cal weapons disposal mission. (For more on the Cape Ray’s mission, see “Clearing the Air” in the April – June 2015 issue of Army AL&T.)
Spencer, who had held the position of JPEO-CPD since November 2012, oversaw the organization’s involvement in the destruction of Syrian chemi- cal weapons of mass destruction and the eradication of the Ebola virus in West Africa. He served as the deputy assistant secretary of the Army for the elimination of chemical weapons before his selection as JPEO-CBD,
and earlier had served as director of DTRA’s Chemical and Biological Defense Directorate. His 28-year active-duty Army career included posts in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and HQDA, and command of the U.S. Army Chemical Demilitarization Activity on Johnston Atoll and the Pueblo Chemical Weapons Depot, CO.
Bryce, a member of the SES since February 2010, had served as deputy JPEO-CBD since February 2005. A retired Marine Corps chief warrant officer, he served previously as product manager for nuclear, biological and chemical defense equipment, individual Marine combat equipment and individual protective equipment at Marine Corps Base Quantico, VA. (Photo by Steven Lusher, JPEO-CBD)
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