The Navy has lowered cost projections for its Next-Generation Enterprise Network to below $1.5 billion a year from an estimated annual $2 billion figure provided last week at a media briefing in Washington. The current network, the Navy Marine Corps Intranet, cost $1 billion a year under an origin...
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The Navy has set a simple standard for award of its Next-Generation Network: price. That’s what top project officials told a packed industry briefing in Washington on Friday. Capt. Shawn Hendricks, manager of the Naval Enterprise Networks Program Office, which manages NGEN, estimated the new n...
via NDIA The U.S. Navy owns the world’s largest “purpose built” network. The Navy/Marine Corps Intranet–NMCI–is bigger than anything the Army operates, or the Air Force. Or even the Defense Department. It is second only to the Internet itself in terms of scale. Now, the Nav...
via Information Week Government The Navy has sketched out data center and cloud computing plans for a multibillion dollar, next-generation network it’s building for both naval forces and the Marine Corps. The Navy aims to reduce its non-tactical IT budget by 25% through the deployment of the N...