LONDON, May 27 (UPI) -- Boeing Defense UK announced that seven companies will support its effort to provide the Logistics Network Enabled Capability to the U.K. Ministry of Defense.
The British companies are Ark Continuity, BearingPoint, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM UK, Miro Technologies and Steria.
"Our approach in selecting our team for Log NEC is to produce a cost-effective, schedule-driven and high-performing program for the Ministry of Defense," said Jeff Pete, Log NEC program manager for Boeing Defense UK.
The subcontractors will provide expertise as Boeing assists the Defense Ministry in the transformation of its end-to-end logistics support chain and integrates more than 200 software applications used to manage logistics data.
Ark Continuity will lease and provide managed service of two data centers; BearingPoint will provide an analytics capability and the managed service of the Enterprise Data Warehouse to integrate Defense Ministry data; EMC will provide IT hardware and software and manage the implementation of the data center storage and backup solution; while Hewlett-Packard will provide IT services and hardware, break/fix service for legacy hardware; and implementation and support for the service desk management tool.
IBM UK will provide IT services, hardware, and software, as well as management of information exchange services and engineering and asset management system for the air environment; Miro Technologies will provide software and consulting, development, implementation, sustainment of the base inventory management systems project, and management of an engineering and asset-management application; while Steria will provide IT services and software and manage the service for some of the legacy applications.
Boeing said other Log NEC contributors include Tapestry Solutions, Aviall and Kestrel, all Boeing subsidiaries.
Boeing received the contract for Log NEC last November.
