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Navy strikes enterprise licensing deal with Oracle
Navy department's second large enterprise licensing agreement will save an estimated $60 million over five years. Navy and Marine Corps components are required to use it for all of the Oracle database products it covers.
Tags: DoD , technology , Oracle , Enterprise software licensing , Terry Halvorsen , Jared Serbu
Navy acquisition chief Branch discusses procurement strategies
This week on "Off the Shelf," Elliott Branch, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Acquisition and Procurement discusses the Navy's procurement strategies.
June 4, 2013
Tags: Elliott Branch , acquisition , Off the Shelf , Roger Waldron
Sequestration slows network modernization that Navy can't wait for
In the initial round of installations, the Navy hoped to outfit 15 ships with the new standardized IT architecture. But fiscal 2013 budget problems will cut the number of ships roughly in half.
Tags: DoD , technology , CANES , William Leigher , Jared Serbu , AFCEA , budget , sequestration
Marine Corps prepares to cut cord on NMCI
The Marine Corps will transition on Saturday to a government-owned, government-operated IT network, ending its 12-year reliance on the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI). The Navy said it expects to award the follow-on contract to NMCI by June 30.
Tags: DoD , Marine Corps , NGEN , NMCI , Robert Scott Jack , Kevin Nally , Jared Serbu , AFCEA , Joint Information Environment , technology
Navy targets billions more in IT savings
Navy CIO Terry Halvorsen says the Navy and Marine Corps have already reduced IT spending by $2 billion, and will soon target billions more in technology spending.
Tags: DoD , technology , budget , Marine Corps , mobility , data center consolidation , Enterprise software licensing , Terry Halvorsen , Jared Serbu
Sequestration already biting Navy, Marines readiness
Currently deployed units and those behind them are fully trained and equipped, the services say. But those next in line "aren't doing much." The fiscal 2013 budget also may be too little, too late in some ship repair and maintenance efforts.
Tags: Marine Corps , sequestration , furlough , Congress , Philip Cullom , William Tryon , William Burke , Jared Serbu , House Armed Services Committee
Navy unveils squadron of manned, unmanned craft
Budget cuts end Blue Angels' 2013 season
Tags: sequestration , Blue Angels
Navy mandates partial migration to commercial cloud
A new memo from Navy Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen tells the Navy and Marine Corps to move public-facing data to commercial cloud service providers.
Tags: DoD , technology , Marine Corps , cloud computing , Terry Halvorsen , Jared Serbu
Doomed US Navy ship removed from Philippine reef
A crane lifted the 250-ton stern of the dismantled USS Guardian on Saturday from the reef, where it accidentally got stuck Jan. 17, officials said.
Tags: USS Guardian , DoD
