Information workers are in high demand in both the public and private sectors. The Department of the Navy seeks to mitigate any adverse effects. It's doing this by emphasizing local flexibility. Only a portion of the set of NMCI services are mandatory in initial implementation. The mandatory set was established at the minimum necessary to ensure security and interoperability.
Local activities can pace the transition impact based on their local situation.
For example, if a local activity has a large number of IT professionals, they can choose to maintain their legacy software and mainframe systems with in-house people and transition this support to the NMCI contract as people move on or are retrained and reassigned to higher priority work. Those seeking to continue work in network operations will be given priority for job placement with the NMCI service provider. Industry experience indicates that as much as 60 percent of the in-place workforce might take advantage of such an offer. Those government employees choosing to make this private sector transition also may be afforded certain benefits. To ensure thoroughness, the Department of the Navy has asked Jefferson Consulting to closely look at the transition issue.