The Defense Information Systems Agency has announced it closed the Defense Enterprise Computing Center at Huntsville, Alabama, bringing its number of DECCs to 10, down from 18 in 2008.
It said closing the center would save about $3.2 million a year, and that realignment of the functions from the Huntsville DECC began in March, including the transfer of DoD enterprise email to other DECCs.
The agency said it would save about $17 million a year by closing the centers, all part of the wider federal data center consolidation effort. DISA said consolidation is helping it establish a core-computing infrastructure that provides reliable, easy access to enterprise services at a lower cost. It also noted that these efforts are driving adoption of the Joint Information Environment – JIE, a wider DoD initiative to support greater information sharing and interdependent enterprise services.
