Very, VERY, interesting and disturbing!
One thing is certain...things are not what they seem.
http://www.cfoworld.com/strategic-finance/72829/navy-yard-shooter-was-it-worker-resume-gun-violence
The firm that Alexis worked for, The Experts, was a subcontractor for Hewlett-Packard. According to HP, “Alexis was an employee of a company called ‘The Experts,’ a subcontractor to an HP Enterprise Services contract to refresh equipment used on the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) network,” HP said late on Monday.
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In June, HP announced that it has been awarded a $3.45 billion project to build the Navy’s “Next Generation Enterprise Network,” or NGEN.
The project is intended to provide secure data and IT services, including data storage, e-mail, and video teleconferencing to the Navy and Marine Corps, according to the General Accountability Office. That award was a continuation of an existing contract that HP has with the Navy.
http://www.expertsit.com/home/experts-home.php
June 2013
HP Team win $3.45B NGEN award.
Press Release
http://www.expertsit.com/press/2013%2006%20-%20NGEN.pdf
http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20130627/IT04/307080005/HP-wins-3-5-billion-NGEN-contract
The Navy has awarded incumbent vendor Hewlett Packard a potential five-year, $3.5 billion contract to develop what will be the world’s largest private computer network.
Called the Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN), the project will replace the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI), a contractor-owned and operated network serving 800,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel. NGEN will serve roughly the same number of personnel in both services, both in the U.S. and foreign locations.
For the Navy, the new network will be government-owned and contractor-operated, while the Marine Corps will have a government-owned and government-operated model with contractor support. The Marine Corps wanted the ability to travel with the physical components of its network and preferred running the network itself, said Bill Toti, vice president and account executive for HP’s Navy & Marine Corps accounts.
NGEN “required a different approach, a different operating model and it required a different team,” Toti said in an interview. “It wasn’t just optics, but we really did try our best to look at the evolving requirements and build a team that met that need.”
HP’s team includes AT&T Government Solutions, Inc., International Business Machines Global Business Services Federal, Lockheed Martin Services, Inc, and Northrop Grumman Systems Corp.
“I believe we got the best of U.S. industry at the table for this,” Sean Stackley, assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, told reporters Thursday.
The transition to NGEN is expected to take about 13 months, considering there are no bid protests.