Defense Logistics Agency Awarded for Enterprise Data Center

September 13, 2004 - (HostReview.com) - The Defense Logistics Agency (www.dla.mil) has awarded the contract for its Enterprise Data Center (EDC) Program to Hewlett Packard, a company with broad experience in migration and hosting. The EDC will create a single, organization-wide information technology infrastructure for DLA, resulting in savings and efficiencies for the agency.

"With the EDC, DLA is taking a huge step forward for the agency, the Department of Defense, the government and ultimately, the taxpayers. We're really looking forward to working with Hewlett Packard to ensure the program's success," said Mark Philip, the Program Manager for the EDC. EDC is a significant IT effort, he said, that will help DLA fulfill its mission to manage the logistics supply chain and better serve its customers, from now and into the future.

The contract is a five-year agreement with additional one-year options for another five years. As proposed it will have a 10-year cost of $290,127,642. Most DLA servers, applications and storage will be consolidated by the EDC migration, which will be staggered over time to minimize disruptions in customer service.

The program will consolidate large numbers of DLA servers and infrastructure into centralized state-of-the-art facilities allowing more efficient support to the war fighter, which is DLA's mission. The EDC will reduce DLA's IT inventory resulting in a reduction of the agency's total cost of ownership and will create a more modern IT infrastructure.

DLA provides supply support, and technical and logistics services to the U.S. military services and several federal civilian agencies.