GAO calls for revised NGEN approach

Navy Reduces NMCI Contract Ceiling Increase By Nearly $600 Million

/ September 21, 2012 at 9:36 PM
The Navy reevaluated a contract ceiling increase for the legacy Navy-Marine Corps Intranet and changed it to $4.924 billion, nearly $600 million lower than the initial increase, which the Navy blamed on Next Generation Enterprise Network program delays. Steven Davis, a Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command spokesman, said in a Sept. 21 email that while the Navy originally anticipated increasing the contract ceiling to $5.51 billion on Aug. 1, "the initial estimate has been refined to $4.924 billion." The...

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