By Javier Chagoya

NPS Chief Information Officer (CIO) Joe LoPiccolo speaks with Director, Information Technology Management, Naval Reactors Jon Kling in NPS' Executive Briefing Center, Aug. 17. Kling traveled to NPS with members of the Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) Innovation Cell to examine NPS cyber and big data capabilities during a trip to the West Coast to visit the Silicon Valley.

The PEO EIS Innovation Cell serves as the Navy's enterprise-wide technical leader for bridging the gap between industry innovation and Navy enterprise information technology. Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for C4I, Information Operations and Space, Dr. John Zangardi, an NPS financial management alumnus, led the group's discussions with university leadership and faculty.

"We're here because the innovation cell knows that enabling NPS students, NPS professors, and research faculty is a top priority and will pay dividends to the warfighter," said Zangardi.

The PEO EIS Innovation Cell was established in 2006. It oversees a portfolio of enterprise-wide information technology programs designed to enable common business processes and provide standard information technology capabilities to Sailors at sea, Marines in the field, and their support systems.