Navy opens third NMCI center in Hawaii
Employees at the Ford Island center will manage network traffic throughout the region and will monitor servers, routers and networks.
The Navy opened its third network operations center in Hawaii July 2 to support the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.
Seventy-five employees at the Hawaii center on Ford Island will manage network traffic throughout the region and will monitor NMCI servers, routers and networks. The center will also monitor intrusion attempts, Navy officials said.
The Navy projects that the Hawaii facility will eventually grow to more than 200 civilian, enlisted and contract workers.
The service also has opened network operations centers in Norfolk, Va., and San Diego to support the NMCI program.
So far, under the $6.9 billion contract, Electronic Data Systems Corp. has cut more than 59,000 seats to the NMCI environment and has authority to take more than 90,000 additional seats. Ultimately, NMCI is intended to link more than 400,000 desktop PCs across the United States, Puerto Rico, Iceland and Cuba.