Use this version. Email this to a friend. Lead vendor Electronic Data Systems Corp. will enable thousands of legacy applications to operate via NMCI at no extra charge, said Joseph Cipriano, the Navy's program executive officer for information technology.
NMCI software begin next month.
Legacy applications run under operating systems other than Windows 2000. There may be fewer applications to migrate, however. Arcadipane spoke May 8 during the Government CIO Summit at Kiawah Island, S.C., sponsored by FCW Government Technology Group. Before EDS and department officials can identify the number of legacy applications in the Navy and Marine Corps, they first must recertify every application before it runs on a server, said Ronald Turner, the Navy Department's deputy chief information officer for infrastructure, systems and technology. SRA International Inc. Valletta, a former DOD assistant secretary for command, control, communications and intelligence, said NMCI resembles a mainframe system, where there is control of applications on centralized servers.