SPAWAR employs over 12,000 professionals located around the world and close to the Naval fleet. SPAWAR designs, develops and deploys advanced communications and information capabilities. This eventually was merged into SPAWAR.Īerial view of the SPAWAR Headquarters in San Diego In turn NELC was merged into the Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC) in 1977. In the 1960s, NELC was tasked with 4C: Command, Control, Communications and Computers. For example 80% of the Point Loma Military Reservation evolved into the Naval Electronics Laboratory Center (NELC) at the end of World War II. SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific is located in San Diego, and includes facilities in Japan, Guam and Hawaii.Ī number of mergers over the years have led to the current organization. SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic, an Echelon III organization, is located in Charleston, SC, and also includes facilities in Norfolk, VA, New Orleans and Stuttgart, Germany. PEO EIS and PEO Space Systems are located in the greater Washington, D.C.
SPAWAR supports over 150 programs managed by the Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I), as well as the programs of PEO for Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) and PEO Space Systems. SPAWAR reports to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (RDA).
Echelon II means that the organization reports to someone who, in turn, reports directly to the Chief of Naval Operations. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), based in San Diego, is an Echelon II organization within the United States Navy and Navy’s technical authority and acquisition command for C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance), business information technology and space systems. “It is such an innovative idea…combining acquisition with the actual evaluation of requirements, that really is an advantage,” Kevin Hansen, chief technology officer at Micro Focus Government Solutions during the Government Matters program.Logo of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. The memo outlines the new offices will absorb more functions currently outside the PEO EIS portfolio, but it doesn’t provide any specifics. The change also empowers the Navy’s recently elevated CIO to be the “functional sponsor” for tech needs, meaning the CIO’s office will help design the IT requirements that acquisition specialists will purchase. Rathbun will oversee the transition of standing up the two new PEOs. The business solutions PEO will also help by separating the back-end IT from the applications that sailors and Marines use, she added. The office split is one step toward making IT a “strategic asset,” Rathbun said, as the military confronts a history of difficulties in acquiring IT services. The new digital PEO will support DevSecOpps, ID and access management, cybersecurity and general IT acquisition to better streamline the development of technology in the Navy. “To realize the vision of digital transformation and to optimize program alignment across the Navy and Marine Corps capability portfolios, I am directing the disestablishment of PEO EIS and the establishment of two new PEOs,” according to the memo, signed by assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, James “Hondo” Geurts. The memo states the split will begin this month, and the two offices should be up and running by August.Ĭurrent PEO head of enterprise information systems, Ruth Lew, will lead the new digital office while the manpower, logistics and business solutions office will be run by Les Hubbard. The other office will focus on the “application layer,” or the tools that will take advantage of the more integrated back-end systems acquired by the new digital shop, Jane Rathbun, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, information operations and space, said on Government Matters. The new digital office will take the entire IT portfolio and will redesign its structure to better fit industry best practices on tech acquisition, according to a memo obtained by FedScoop. The Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) will be disestablished and in its place will be an office for just for digital and IT acquisitions, and another for “manpower, logistics and business solutions” applications.
The Navy is splitting up the office that handles enterprise services acquisitions into two separate entities in order to transform how it procures digital tools and innovative technologies.
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