Mr. Christopher Jais

Project Manager
Positioning, Navigation, and Timing

Mr. Christopher Jais assumed responsibilities as Project Manager for Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PM PNT) in June 2025

Immediately prior to assuming his most recent role, Mr. Jais completed the Defense Acquisition University Senior Service College Fellowship, graduating in May. He also served as Strategic Initiatives Lead for Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors (PEO IEW&S) from June 2023 to July 2024, providing insights and guidance to leadership that set future pathways for the PEO in organizational agility, talent management, Army modernization and customer relations.

Mr. Jais served as Product Manager for PM PNT’s PNT Modernization product office beginning in Oct 2020. In this position, Mr. Jais led the PNT Modernization team in its mission of transitioning incremental and disruptive PNT capabilities to overmatch evolving PNT Threats. He also developed and implemented an acquisition strategy for the organization’s lines of effort.

Prior to his role with PNT Modernization, Mr. Jais held a leadership position at another PNT product office, serving as Deputy Product Manager Dismounted PNT. There he was responsible for implementing risk reduction prototype efforts to ensure Soldiers have access to critical and accurate timing and location information, ultimately allowing Soldiers to shoot, move and communicate in GPS-contested environments.

Mr. Jais’ assignments before this position include Test and Quality Division Chief for PM Distributed Common Ground System – Army (DCGS-A) and Reliability and Quality Lead for DCGS-A. Prior to joining PEO IEW&S, Mr. Jais was a Reliability Analyst at the Army Materiel System Analysis Activity and entered his civilian service in April 2004 at the Army Test and Evaluation Command as a Reliability Evaluator for the Army Evaluation Center.

Mr. Jais holds a Master of Science in Technical Management from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Pennsylvania State University. He is married to Ms. Megan Jais and has three energetic boys: Jackson (nine), Logan (seven) and William (four).