ViaSat customer Wam!Net gets a piece of this whopper Navy contract:
The Information Strike Force, led by Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS), Plano, Texas, as the prime contractor, is being competitively awarded a $6,938,817,954 multi-year firm-fixed-price (with performance incentives) contract for the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI). The NMCI will provide secure, comprehensive, end-to-end information services through a common computing and communications environment that supports the Department of the Navy's core business, scientific, research, computational, and warfighting activities. It will enhance interoperability and information exchange capability for Navy and Marine Corps users, as well as garrison and deployed forces. The transition from the current operational environment to the NMCI enhanced environment will occur without impact to existing operations. The NMCI will be the sole intranet of the Department of the Navy. The NMCI service area includes the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Guantanamo Bay (Cuba), Puerto Rico, and Iceland. Additionally, the service area may be expanded to outside the continental United States sites. The first set of orders against the contract is being placed with a total obligated value of $181,648,081. EDS' major subcontractors for NMCI are Raytheon, MCI WorldCom, Cisco, WAM!NET, Dell, and Microsoft. |
