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Next Generation Enterprise Network
After a decade of operating the world's largest intranet with a single contractor in charge, the U.S. Navy has decided to replace it with something more fashionable. It plans to unbundle the functions required to sustain the network and hold a series of competitions each year to see who can offer
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Date:
5/9/2011
The Government Accountability Office issued a scathing report on March 11 criticizing Navy plans for the $50 billion Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN). The project is supposed to replace the Navy Marine Corps Intranet, the largest intranet in the world and by most accounts a system that
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Date:
3/14/2011
You'd think that after cutting $330 billion of unnecessary weapons spending out of the Pentagon budget last year, defense secretary Robert Gates would have claimed almost all of the low-hanging fruit. Well, guess again: the military services still are buying all sorts of exotic gadgets that aren't
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Date:
11/10/2010

