Comments on: NMCI: In a ClASS By Itself http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2006/10/11/nmci-in-a-class-by-itself/ If you're not angry with me yet, just keep reading. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:15:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Matthew DeMoss http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2006/10/11/nmci-in-a-class-by-itself/comment-page-1/#comment-59095 Matthew DeMoss Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:04:52 +0000 http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2006/10/11/nmci-in-a-class-by-itself/#comment-59095 I feel the same enmity toward DISANet. We sacrifice a lot of capability for nominal security. It's a giant conspiracy to ensure that real work may only be accomplished in the offices contractors. I feel the same enmity toward DISANet.

We sacrifice a lot of capability for nominal security.

It’s a giant conspiracy to ensure that real work may only be accomplished in the offices contractors.

]]> By: Mary Poppins http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2006/10/11/nmci-in-a-class-by-itself/comment-page-1/#comment-30422 Mary Poppins Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:17:33 +0000 http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2006/10/11/nmci-in-a-class-by-itself/#comment-30422 I am looking for people who are "in the know" from EDS, former EDS, Navy, or Marine Corps who understand the primary causes of the NMCI debacle both on the operational and acquisition sides and are willing to provide straightforward candid thoughts on what should have and could have been done differently. You may contact me at first_circle@verizon.net I am looking for people who are “in the know” from EDS, former EDS, Navy, or Marine Corps who understand the primary causes of the NMCI debacle both on the operational and acquisition sides and are willing to provide straightforward candid thoughts on what should have and could have been done differently. You may contact me at first_circle@verizon.net

]]> By: John Doe http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2006/10/11/nmci-in-a-class-by-itself/comment-page-1/#comment-30361 John Doe Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:28:11 +0000 http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2006/10/11/nmci-in-a-class-by-itself/#comment-30361 Wow some people really have no clue about NMCI. Do you know it actually the NAVY that bought these slow machines that can't handle security policies, that the NAVY makes us enforce, while you log in with your CAC that DOD requires you to use. You people are so ignorant! Jade I hear ya...I was talking to someone today about how long it took ITs to get things done. Also, 35K on the helpdesk, that guy got a good contractor, cause most of them are on hourly now. Wow some people really have no clue about NMCI. Do you know it actually the NAVY that bought these slow machines that can’t handle security policies, that the NAVY makes us enforce, while you log in with your CAC that DOD requires you to use. You people are so ignorant!

Jade I hear ya…I was talking to someone today about how long it took ITs to get things done. Also, 35K on the helpdesk, that guy got a good contractor, cause most of them are on hourly now.

]]> By: Jade Benay http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2006/10/11/nmci-in-a-class-by-itself/comment-page-1/#comment-29143 Jade Benay Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:28:18 +0000 http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2006/10/11/nmci-in-a-class-by-itself/#comment-29143 There is so much ignorance posted here. I am a retired Marine who was on AD when NMCI came about. Prior to NMCI I had to wait up to 3 weeks for our Comm Techs to repair my computer. I could have taken leave! As for a Help Desk agent making 80K on NMCI, how about 35K..research your facts before you post. Research Electronic Data Systems (EDS) they have been around since 1962 and yes in Britian, so don't blame the Welfare system issue on DoN (NMCI). Bunch of whiners here. How about worrying about the people serving in Combat Areas right now instead of if you can spend your man hours at work blogging and logging onto sites that have nothing to do with your jobs!! Semper Fi There is so much ignorance posted here. I am a retired Marine who was on AD when NMCI came about. Prior to NMCI I had to wait up to 3 weeks for our Comm Techs to repair my computer. I could have taken leave! As for a Help Desk agent making 80K on NMCI, how about 35K..research your facts before you post. Research Electronic Data Systems (EDS) they have been around since 1962 and yes in Britian, so don’t blame the Welfare system issue on DoN (NMCI). Bunch of whiners here. How about worrying about the people serving in Combat Areas right now instead of if you can spend your man hours at work blogging and logging onto sites that have nothing to do with your jobs!!
Semper Fi

]]> By: Gabriel Rodriguez http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2006/10/11/nmci-in-a-class-by-itself/comment-page-1/#comment-24083 Gabriel Rodriguez Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:38:38 +0000 http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2006/10/11/nmci-in-a-class-by-itself/#comment-24083 I'm a fellow O651 who migrated over to NMCI last year myself, and all the stuff you mentioned I've had to suffer too. I feel the pain. I feel the pain. I’m a fellow O651 who migrated over to NMCI last year myself, and all the stuff you mentioned I’ve had to suffer too.

I feel the pain. I feel the pain.

]]> By: TJ Campbell http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2006/10/11/nmci-in-a-class-by-itself/comment-page-1/#comment-23271 TJ Campbell Tue, 29 May 2007 12:12:14 +0000 http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2006/10/11/nmci-in-a-class-by-itself/#comment-23271 I, for one, am surprised at the gall expressed here! After all we've ONLY given 12.5 BILLION dollars to EDS for the privlege of receiving bad service. Given the trend in government procurement I'd have expected to pay 20-25 billion! At least we got shafted at discount prices. Now if my machine will only stay alive long enough to post this note...... I, for one, am surprised at the gall expressed here! After all we’ve ONLY given 12.5 BILLION dollars to EDS for the privlege of receiving bad service. Given the trend in government procurement I’d have expected to pay 20-25 billion!
At least we got shafted at discount prices. Now if my machine will only stay alive long enough to post this note……

]]> By: joe http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2006/10/11/nmci-in-a-class-by-itself/comment-page-1/#comment-21618 joe Tue, 15 May 2007 04:45:39 +0000 http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2006/10/11/nmci-in-a-class-by-itself/#comment-21618 I am civil service and work at a navy lab. NMCI is the most destructive thing that has happened to the computer structure. For a while my machine was on a R&D part of the base network. I was able to have a machine that was capable of running the software I needed for my work. They are currently getting me a new NMCI box that will have dual processor, good video card and 4gb of ram. But It will be a developers seat so hopefully I will be able to run the software needed to do my job. It is a shame the money that is being wasted on forcing this systems before it was completely thought out. We would go to jail if we did our jobs like this. What does happen to all the machines they take over!!!!!!! I am civil service and work at a navy lab. NMCI is the most destructive thing that has happened to the computer structure. For a while my machine was on a R&D part of the base network. I was able to have a machine that was capable of running the software I needed for my work. They are currently getting me a new NMCI box that will have dual processor, good video card and 4gb of ram. But It will be a developers seat so hopefully I will be able to run the software needed to do my job. It is a shame the money that is being wasted on forcing this systems before it was completely thought out. We would go to jail if we did our jobs like this. What does happen to all the machines they take over!!!!!!!

]]> By: NMCI Slave http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2006/10/11/nmci-in-a-class-by-itself/comment-page-1/#comment-19285 NMCI Slave Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:55:42 +0000 http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2006/10/11/nmci-in-a-class-by-itself/#comment-19285 NMCI's plan to treat everybody on its network like children has topped the list on why I'm getting out of the Marine Corps. When I first came in in 1999, things ran flawlessly. My computer didn't crash, I could install and remove programs at my leisure, and I didn't need my ID card to log into my computer. Now I have to enter my pin everytime I want to send an e-mail. This is ridiculous! Which idiot collaborated with the other idiot and thought this was a good idea. For those at Pendleton, how long did you wait in line at the JRC to get a new CAC card, then attempt to use, then wait on hold on the NMCI help desk for HOURS, only to be told you need to go back to the JRC to get a new CAC card. I hate NMCI! But for those getting out soon, the drooling moron at the NMCI helpdesk makes about 80K per year. One of my co-workers is married to one and he got out as a Cpl w/o a degree. NMCI’s plan to treat everybody on its network like children has topped the list on why I’m getting out of the Marine Corps. When I first came in in 1999, things ran flawlessly. My computer didn’t crash, I could install and remove programs at my leisure, and I didn’t need my ID card to log into my computer. Now I have to enter my pin everytime I want to send an e-mail. This is ridiculous! Which idiot collaborated with the other idiot and thought this was a good idea. For those at Pendleton, how long did you wait in line at the JRC to get a new CAC card, then attempt to use, then wait on hold on the NMCI help desk for HOURS, only to be told you need to go back to the JRC to get a new CAC card. I hate NMCI! But for those getting out soon, the drooling moron at the NMCI helpdesk makes about 80K per year. One of my co-workers is married to one and he got out as a Cpl w/o a degree.

]]> By: Steve http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2006/10/11/nmci-in-a-class-by-itself/comment-page-1/#comment-15746 Steve Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:04:13 +0000 http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2006/10/11/nmci-in-a-class-by-itself/#comment-15746 This Marine only clipped the tip of the iceberg. The situation is even more dire and ludicrous than what has been stated here. Biggest case of "fraud, waste and abuse" probably in the history of the gov't. That's saying somethin'! The contract, I believe, has gone into the tens of billions of $$$, but if the impact to productivity and capabibility could be computed, it would doubtless reach well into the HUNDREDS of billions. Minimum # of processes running at any given time w/ ONLY the desktop and no apps open, 46. Almost none of which can be 'killed' by us peon users. One of my favorites is makecab.exe. When it randomly kicks in during the day, CPU cycles are completely consumed and you're basically dead-in-the-water until it finishes doing whatever it does.(~10 minutes minimum) We don't even have the "permission" to change the date and time clock. Click on a folder in your c:\ drive and it's about 30 seconds for the machine to find it. Has to go the network and back to find itself. No kidding. Oh, and then there is the hundreds of thousands of $$$ worth of specialized proprietary software we've bought (essential to our testing, research and development work) and paid for but can no longer use or even reinstall. Thrown out like garbage. And there's the fully functional, capable hardware that EDS confiscated, in the dark of night if they were unable to pry it from your hands during work hours (yes, this really happened). What happened to all those thousands of PCs, monitors, routers, printers, etc, etc.? In my dept. over 60 people share ONE perpetually broken or out of ink, etc. printer. Security? What a joke! The only people that can't get into the intranet are those of us on it. I'm amazed that with the copious holes, the hackers haven't completely obliterated it. Maybe it's too much like shooting fish in a barrel for them - no sport in it! Again, I am only scratching the a little more a the tip of the iceberg. Your tax dollars at work!!! This Marine only clipped the tip of the iceberg. The situation is even more dire and ludicrous than what has been stated here. Biggest case of “fraud, waste and abuse” probably in the history of the gov’t. That’s saying somethin’! The contract, I believe, has gone into the tens of billions of $$$, but if the impact to productivity and capabibility could be computed, it would doubtless reach well into the HUNDREDS of billions.
Minimum # of processes running at any given time w/ ONLY the desktop and no apps open, 46. Almost none of which can be ‘killed’ by us peon users. One of my favorites is makecab.exe. When it randomly kicks in during the day, CPU cycles are completely consumed and you’re basically dead-in-the-water until it finishes doing whatever it does.(~10 minutes minimum) We don’t even have the “permission” to change the date and time clock. Click on a folder in your c:\ drive and it’s about 30 seconds for the machine to find it. Has to go the network and back to find itself. No kidding. Oh, and then there is the hundreds of thousands of $$$ worth of specialized proprietary software we’ve bought (essential to our testing, research and development work) and paid for but can no longer use or even reinstall. Thrown out like garbage. And there’s the fully functional, capable hardware that EDS confiscated, in the dark of night if they were unable to pry it from your hands during work hours (yes, this really happened). What happened to all those thousands of PCs, monitors, routers, printers, etc, etc.?
In my dept. over 60 people share ONE perpetually broken or out of ink, etc. printer. Security? What a joke! The only people that can’t get into the intranet are those of us on it. I’m amazed that with the copious holes, the hackers haven’t completely obliterated it. Maybe it’s too much like shooting fish in a barrel for them - no sport in it! Again, I am only scratching the a little more a the tip of the iceberg. Your tax dollars at work!!!

]]> By: RedRider http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2006/10/11/nmci-in-a-class-by-itself/comment-page-1/#comment-15636 RedRider Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:25:21 +0000 http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2006/10/11/nmci-in-a-class-by-itself/#comment-15636 It's time for somebody in authority stand up and declare "The emperor has no clothes on." Happily, I work in an environment that is fully insulated from NMCI. Other programs will do well to learn the acquisition tricks to keep NMCI out due to "unique" operational relationships with their vendors and contractors. I cannot reveal my affiliation but it can be done and is being done on a USMC program. It’s time for somebody in authority stand up and declare “The emperor has no clothes on.” Happily, I work in an environment that is fully insulated from NMCI. Other programs will do well to learn the acquisition tricks to keep NMCI out due to “unique” operational relationships with their vendors and contractors. I cannot reveal my affiliation but it can be done and is being done on a USMC program.

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