Naval Facilities Engineering Command

Transferring the IT Infrastructure to the Navy marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) Environment

Services Rendered

  • Business Case Analysis
  • Application Rationalization
  • Application Inventory
  • Strategic Planning
  • Business Process Improvement
  • Knowledge Management
  • Migration Plans

Benefits

  • Application Portfolio Management
  • Forged technological improvements to existing applications in order to make quality, web-enabled applications
  • Reduced spending on Legacy Systems
  • Knowledge transfer

Project Description

In 2001, the Navy Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) undertook an initiative to consolidate its network and transfer its existing IT infrastructure to an NMCI environment. This large-scale effort would impact approximately 280 duty stations and 10,000 desktop users worldwide.

Our Approach

The Navy’s existing IT network infrastructure was segmented and disorganized. This infrastructural segmentation created a problem, and the Team chosen to resolve this problem would need to:

  1. Create an application baseline that would provide an inventory of all systems and their subsequent uses;
  2. Identify the pertinence of all systems as they related to core business practices across organizational business lines;
  3. Eliminate application redundancy of COTS and GOTS products as well as the redundancy of media collection, testing, packaging and deployment costs across organizations; and
  4. Standardize versioning so that all desktop users had the most current and necessary software application versions.

InterImage successfully met the challenge and resolved NAVFAC’s problem by improving the IT infrastructure that would be transferred to an NMCI environment.

Solution

Using a zero-based rationalization methodology, an initial inventory revealed over 33,000 applications being used. Working closely with business lines across organizations, InterImage was key in reducing the number of applications used from the unwieldy number of over 33,000 to 796 applications in less than a year, with continual reductions. Additionally, InterImage was instrumental in assigning application owners as well as subject matter experts to each application, which helped further streamline business practices.

InterImage was given an e-Gov award in September 2004 to recognize its successful application rationalization and implementation of sound business practices. Moreover, the rationalization process used became a prototype for Navy-wide rationalization, and it was adopted by Director, Navy Staff.