Case Studies - Network Engineering

NETCOM ESTA Enterprise Mission Support (EMS) “Developing concepts for operating and managing the transformed, consolidated Army infostructure at the enterprise level”

In December 2007, the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command/9th Signal Command (Army) Enterprise Systems Technology Activity (NETCOM/9th SC (A)/ESTA) awarded NCI a $97.2-million three-year IDIQ task order under the ITES-2S contract for enterprise mission support services. With this new award, NCI will support ESTA in developing, implementing, and enforcing enterprise systems management (ESM) processes and activities required to operate and manage the transformed, consolidated Army infostructure at the enterprise level. We have already begun supporting NETCOM/9th SC (A)/ESTA in planning, analyzing, reviewing, coordinating, integrating, and implementing actions necessary to develop and deploy Army-wide enterprise operations and management projects at the ESTA headquarters at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and field offices located throughout the continental United States (CONUS and outside the continental United States (OCONUS). NCI’s technical experts will provide IT enterprise services within a secure network operations (NetOps) framework across the enterprise, including: strategic planning, Army Enterprise Infostructure (AEI) management, service level management (SLM), Army Knowledge Management (AKM), IT metrics Networthiness, Microsoft Active Directory (AD)/Exchange, Installation Information Infrastructure Modernization Program (I3MP), Army Area Processing Centers (APCs), IA, Army Golden Master (AGM), Army Enterprise NetOps Integrated Architecture (AENIA) and NetOps, base communications/ long-haul communications, and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).