Who has the biggest?
It’s the intranet for the US Navy and Marine Corps and you can access the home page (and some cursory areas) on the public Internet at www.nmci-isf.com.
For those not familiar with the project, EDS was hired on a multi-billion dollar contract (yes, that’s right, BILLION) to work with the Navy and Marine Corps to build a "comprehensive, enterprise-wide initiative that will make the full range of network-based information services available to Sailors and Marines for day-to-day activities and in war.”
Affectionately referred to by a user-friendly, common folk acronym, NMCI features more than your average run-of-the-mill secure access to US Armed Forces information and systems and “universal access to integrated voice, video and data communications. But you can get to it from the Internet...
While it is not complete the Navy Marine intranet will "afford pier-side connectivity to Navy vessels in port. And it will link more than 360,000 desktops across the
The Navy and Marine Corps use the NMCI to achieve "a number of critical objectives:
- Enhanced network security
- Interoperability with CINCs and other Services
- Knowledge sharing across the globe
- Increased productivity
- Improved systems reliability and quality of service
- Reduced cost of voice, video and data services
Wow! The security of the free world is being influenced by major intranet activity... more to come on this one.