Edward M. Siomacco is the Deputy Program Director, Net-Centric Enterprise Services Program Office, for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). He is responsible for delivering net-centric enterprise information sharing services to provide trusted, decision-quality information for use by our joint forces and coalition partners.

He attended North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C. in 1975, and was awarded a Bachelors of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering. In 1987, he earned a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering in 1990 from the Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, CA. He received Acquisition Level III Certification in Program Management and is a registered Professional Engineer.

In May 1975, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Signal Corps. He attended the Signal Officer Basic, Radio Systems Officer, Airborne and Ranger Courses before his first tour of duty as a platoon leader in the 50th Signal Battalion, Fort Bragg, NC. Follow-on assignments were Company Commander in the 72nd Signal Battalion and Plans Officer in 7th Signal Brigade, Mannheim, Germany.

Upon returning from Germany in 1983, he attended the Naval Post Graduate School. In 1987 he served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY where he completed doctoral-level research in advanced digital signal processing and microwave engineering.

In 1991, he joined the Army Acquisition Corps and served as the Deputy Program Manager for the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS) with responsibility for the research, development, acquisition, and fielding of the Army's portion of the multi-service JTIDS program.

In 1994, he was selected Product Manager for the Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control System, an Acquisition Category (ACAT) IC program. He was responsible for software development, integration, testing, and fielding of the Army's first automated sensor-to-shooter short-range air defense command and control system.

In 1998, he served as Project Manager for the Warfighter Information Network-Terrestrial (WIN-T) System, a pre-Milestone ACAT ID program with direct linkage to the Army Future Combat Systems. He managed the Army's largest tactical communications modernization program including the commercial recapitalization of Mobile Subscriber Equipment/Tri-Service Tactical Communications (MSE/TRI-TAC) systems.

In 2001, he served as the Army Chief Information Officer/G-6’s senior acquisition and technology advisor for command, control, communications, computers, and information technology. He was responsible for the policy, strategic planning, and implementation of the Army Knowledge Management vision, objectives, and mission tasks for supporting the Global War on Terrorism. In 2003, he served as the Director of the Army Architecture Integration Cell (AAIC) with responsibilities for the management oversight and coordination of the integrated Army Enterprise Architecture.

After serving over 29 years of active military service, he joined the Department of the Army Civilian Service as the Director for Technology, Army Chief Information Office/G-6, with the responsibility for providing advice and policy guidance recommendations in the research, design engineering, integration, test, and employment of diverse and complex command, control, and communications systems and enabling commercial information technologies.

MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS
USA Commander’s Award for Civilian Service
Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters
Meritorious Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters
Army Achievement Medal

Presentation
Net-Centric Enterprise Services
Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) will enable the secure, agile, robust, dependable, interoperable data-sharing environment for DOD where warfighter, business and intelligence users share knowledge on a global network that facilitates information superiority, accelerates decision-making, effective operations, and net-centric transformation.

NCES will enable decision-making superiority that results in increased mission effectiveness and enhanced process execution. It is based upon an emerging concept in the DOD called "net-centricity," which enables systems to provide the right information to the right person at the right time.

NCES will support new capabilities in all DOD domains, bringing together the promise of Internet technology and the joint power of DOD. The DOD Global Information Grid (GIG) will become like a private World Wide Web. Business, intelligence and war- fighting information, and supporting infrastructures will be sharable where and whenever necessary, NCES represents a different approach for DOD ­ market-based, enterprise-wide, and joint-by-design.

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