DLA

DLA Defense Distribution Centers (DDC) BRAC Program. In 2009 NES began work on a $24M Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) project which involves provisioning new network services for over 3,000 DLA staff at 30 sites across the country. The project includes network site surveys, development of implementation plans, installation of interior and exterior network cabling, and procurement, installation, and configuration of switches and routers. This work results in network infrastructure upgrades at military bases world-wide as individual buildings at each base were added to the DLA network. As NES developed network designs and implementation plans we identified opportunities at each base to improve network resiliency and performance. Typical opportunities included installing spare fiber and spare ducts as part of any excavation, increasing bandwidth to overloaded network segments, and identifying diverse paths for new network segments that improve the overall survivability of the base’s network. As new diverse paths were installed to each base, we negotiated aggressive new circuit pricing that in most cases made the new path into the base much lower cost than the existing path. This innovative approach to cost engineering coupled with experienced network engineering has provided significant value at each base that we have visited – and was acknowledged in a letter from the DLA network operations director to the NES President.