DOD Appropriations bill slashes NMCI funding

[David]

The final version of the fiscal 2007 Defense Appropriations bill slashed $40 million from the operations and maintenance budget of the Navy’s major enterprise information system, the Navy Marine Corps Intranet, which faces similar cuts in the 2007 DOD Authorization bill.

http://www.fcw.com/article96242-09-27-06-Web

 

[kwillia]

Oh crap... and we think we hate today's NMCI network and computer service...

 

[Gummie]

It was explained at one time that NMCI meant No Messages Coming In. I got to retire before I had to experience this exciting, modern communications system first hand, but the horror stories I heard scare me today. One sticks out that there was a problem with units in country. Naples was unable to communicate with them and the trouble desk said it was a weekend and under their contract they had 48 hours to respond.

What a way to run a Navy!

 

[czygvtwkr]

Oh yay, that means even longer with the machine that was supposed to be replaced over a year ago.

1.8 GHz Celeron with 128 meg of ram and a 20 gig HD

 

[oldman]

JPC at work!

 

[Toxick]

Naples was unable to communicate with them and the trouble desk said it was a weekend and under their contract they had 48 hours to respond.

One thing I can say about NMCI - they really really make you wish you didn't have to work with a computer.

 

[FromTexas]

$40M cut out of a $8+ billion dollar multi-year program? Thats nothing.

 

[faamecanic]

Ahhhh ...makes me glad I went back to private industry.

I may face the possiblity of layoffs etc. but here is my PC at my desk now

P4 3.0Ghz
2 GB Ram
250 GB HDD

Oh and I am an Admin on my own machine, so all the nice little excel tools I want to load... on my machine they go in 5 min flat.

Ahhhh

Sorry couldnt resist. I HATED my NMCI laptop. After they loaded Office 2003 I was lucky to be able to have 2 Excel spreadsheets open at once without massive HDD thrashing.