New product manager oversees army's European telecommunications infrastructure - Leader Transitions

FORT MONMOUTH, N.J. -- Today's continental-United-States-based, power-projection Army requires that troops deployed around the world have virtually instantaneous access to do their jobs working with command-and-control and sustaining-base information systems--an especially important consideration given the volatile nature of the world situation.

Recognizing that need, the Army established its first project manager for Defense Communications Systems-Europe. LTC Simon Holzman was presented the charter as PM DCS-E in a ceremony in Mannheim, Germany.

Holzman's mission is to acquire and deliver the installation information infrastructure in Europe that will link the forward-deployed warfighter to worldwide C2 and information systems. He is tasked to implement the European portion of the Installation Information Infrastructure Modernization Program, which includes the common-user installation transport-network program, Army Defense Information Systems Network router program, outside cable rehabilitation program and digital-switched-systems modernization program.

Holzman hit the ground running, as already since he's been PM DCS-E, they have cut over DISN-E switches in Chievres, Belgium--the first DISN-E switch to be activated outside of Germany--and in Brussels, Belgium, replacing the Brussels North Atlantic Treaty Organization KN switch as the primary end-office switch for the Brussels area.

Mr. Larsen serves as the public-affairs officer for the program executive officer for Executive Information Systems at Fort Monmouth.

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