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The Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) was a United States Department of the Navy program which provides a vast majority of information technology services for the entire Department, including the United States Navy and Marine Corps. ==Overview== NMCI Navy Marine Corps Intranet. As of March 2008, NMCI included more than 363,000 computers, serving more than 707,000 Sailors, Marines and civilians in 620 locations in the continental United States, Hawaii, and Japan, making it the largest internal computer network in the world.〔(EDS Signs NMCI Contract Extension To 2010 | eds.com )〕 The network's 4,100 servers handle over 2.3 petabytes of data.〔Shachtman, Noah. ("HP Holds Navy Network 'Hostage' for $3.3 Billion" ), (The Brookings Institution ), 31 August 2010.〕 NMCI established an interoperable command and control network that provides the IT platform necessary for transitioning to a net-centric environment.〔(SIGNAL Magazine )〕 Department of the Navy (DON) CIO Terry Halvorsen described NMCI as a “forcing function within the DON to attend to our legacy infrastructure of applications, servers and networks.〔(IM/IT Navigator - Robert Carey - Military Information Technology )〕” While recent statements by the Navy have been very positive about NMCI,〔(Navy Network Governance Changing Course - SIGNAL Magazine )〕 a 2007 survey of users reported it unstable, slow, and frustrating.〔(Waiting for NMCI - Marine Corps News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Marine Corps Times )〕 "NMCI has been a hugely successful program for the Navy," Weller said during a press briefing with reporters (14, 2010 ). "It has been a cost-effective way to deliver unprecedented level of service. We learned a lot about how to do it and how not to do it."〔()〕 "Anytime you transition from where you have a high degree of localized control to a high degree of centralized control, there will be some disgruntled folks," Weller said. "I think since we already are in that world, about 70 percent of the Navy's IT infrastructure, we are in a world where the Navy has complete control and authority over how we operate the network. That has allowed us to maintain extremely high degree of security, which is frankly our number one issue. The only way that we are aware of you can do that is to have tight configuration management and tight central control. So that is where a lot of the complaints came from. To that note, what have we done to lessen blow in future? I think the answer is we don't need to because we are already there."〔 On September 30, 2010, the NMCI contract ended and the new Continuity of Services Contract (COSC) began. The COSC gives the Navy and Marine Corps the best of the current NMCI IT environment while driving operations continuity, cost savings, network control, competition and contract management. Under the COSC, the Navy retains the same scope of NMCI services with HP, but the network becomes a government-owned, contractor-supported, managed services environment.〔(U.S. Department of the Navy Signs Enterprise Information Technology Services Contract with HP )〕 This is a paradigm shift because under the original NMCI contract, the government managed the network at a distance and did not own any IT assets used in the program.〔(Department Of The Navy Letterhead )〕 Rather, they were owned by the prime contractor, and services are provided to the government on a per-seat basis. Pricing is primarily assessed on a per-machine basis that includes security services, help desk support, and periodic technology upgrades; however, fees for additional services (such as classified connectivity, mission-critical service, additional user accounts, software installation, seat moves, remote access from mobile devices, etc.) did apply. Videophones that provide equal access for Deaf employees are not permissible under NMCI regulations. As of October 2007, the per seat price for all of NMCI was reduced by 15 percent. Desktop PCs and laptops as well as other network components are being continually upgraded in order to enhance performance and security.〔 NMCI is the first large-scale federal government IT centralization and outsourcing project. Its lessons have informed other government agency efforts to consolidate and outsource IT services. According to industry analyst Warren Suss of Suss consulting, “In the long run, government agencies will come to see the need for similar types of solutions, and I think they’ll look to NMCI for lessons learned.”〔(Love/hate relationship with NMCI )〕 The NMCI program is managed by the Navy's Program Executive Office–Enterprise Information Systems (PEO-EIS). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Navy Marine Corps Intranet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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