Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI): About NMCI
A Major Step Toward a Net-Centric Environment
NMCI – Virtualizing Servers
The Navy Marine Corps Intranet needed to guarantee Department of Navy personnel could communicate mission-critical information 24/7. EDS, an HP company, virtualized 2,700 servers down to 300 – reducing outage minutes by almost half, decreasing NMCI’s IT footprint by 40 percent and cutting carbon emissions by nearly 7,000 tons. Learn more.
Prior to NMCI, the Department of the Navy IT infrastructure consisted of stove-piped networks independently procured and operated by individual commands throughout the country. Organizing and administering the network this way inhibited connectivity, increased costs, and rendered all information sharing and security all but impossible. Lack of centralized IT management and planning also resulted in significant disparity in technology capabilities among commands in both the Navy and Marine Corps. NMCI changed all of that, providing an interoperable command and control network needed for transitioning to a net-centric environment.
Today, more than 700,000 of the Department of the Navy’s military and civilian employees receive IT services via NMCI. NMCI has consolidated and standardized network operations services, security and user assistance across every level of command. Information assurance compliance is now enforceable. Users with unique IT services needs are accommodated by smart customization of standard components to generate tailored solutions.
NMCI is the foundation on which the Navy and Marine Corps can build to support their broader strategic information management objectives.
NMCI Facts
- More than 700,000 active users are on NMCI. Only the Internet is larger.
- More than 351,000 seats have been transitioned to the end-state NMCI environment.
- EDS has completed Assumption of Responsibility (AOR) at more than 1,000 networked sites.
- So far, 5,381 seats have been deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the war on terrorism.
- NMCI and EDS operate:
- Four network operations centers
- Three enterprise service desks
- Nearly 50 classified and unclassified server farms
- 3,000 enterprisewide servers
- Connectivity for approximately 15,000 Blackberry wireless devices and more than 2,000 air cards, 24 hours a day, seven days a week
- More than 350 sailors and Marines have attained IT-related certifications at no cost to the government.
- Improved security is unquestionably NMCI’s greatest value:
- NMCI was the first network to fully implement Department of Defense information assurance (IA) standards in both classified and unclassified environments
- NMCI was the first large-scale production network to adopt key, cutting-edge DOD IA standards such as full PKI enforcement, application inspection at the firewall, and is now aggressively rolling out an enterprise Data at Rest solution. These actions are for both SIPR and NIPR.
- NMCI prevents more than 9 million network connection attempts per month
- NMCI detects an average of 60 new viruses per month
- NMCI investigates 1,200 unclassified intrusion attempts per month
- Integrated operation of NMCI network operations centers, service desks and server farms enables off-site storage, rapid service and data restoration, and rapid response to service delivery requirements in the event of a real or potential disaster.
NMCI has helped the Department of Navy to sustain mission capability through real-world challenges:
- 9/11 Pentagon reconstruction
- Hurricanes Isabel, Katrina and Rita
- California wild fires
- Indian Ocean tsunami
- Japan typhoon
Contract modifications have led to enhancements in these areas:
- Execution Discipline
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Customer Satisfaction Incentives