By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. DoD inks MDM, app store contract potentially costing $16M – DISA has signed Digital Management Inc to be their mobile device management provider. Part of the solution is also a mobile application store (MAS) which can update a...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Navy has reduced it’s estimated cost for the Next-Generation Enterprise Network in roughly half to between $4.5 and $5.398 billion over five years. More here. NASA is investigating allegations that a team of Iran...
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...
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...
The Navy Department issued a 332-page draft request for proposal (.pdf) Sept. 30 for its massive Navy/Marine Corps Next Generation Enterprise Network. NGEN will replace the Continuity-Of-Service Contract, which is considered the federal government’s largest information technology program,...
via Fierce Government IT Users should see no difference when the Navy Department finally switches off its massive Navy/Marine Corps Internet (currently incarnate as the Continuity-Of-Service Contract) and turns on its placement contract, Next Generation Enterprise Network, says NGEN Program Director...
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...