New Data Center Nearly Finished
From
Federal News Radio:
The Social Security Administration's new data center is almost finished after
nearly two years....
"We are merely a month and a half away from where we take possession of the new
building. The building, itself, has come in under schedule and under budget, and
at high quality. So we will begin the migration once we have the keys to start
moving services over to the new data center," said Bill Zielinski, the Social
Security Administration's chief information officer. "We are really looking
forward to that time when we can take advantage of all the things the new
technology will provide us."
5 comments:
Whether most realize this or not, this great news for ssa
$750 million to build it, of which $500 million came from the 2009 "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" - the so-called "stimulus." Northrup Grumman was a big winner - getting an SSA contract worth $11 million.
Supposedly, the objective of the stimulus was to create jobs. Congress must have forgotten to require recipients to report back on the number of jobs they created. Wonder how many jobs Northrup Grumman created with the $11 million in stimulus money it took from SSA.
10:53 PM - not accepting that your numbers are accurate, but:
On what planet is Northup Grumman the "big winner" if they got $11 M out of a potential $750 M worth of work. I would suspect the construction company and whomever they hired to, you know, build a data center, are the main sources of jobs and jobs created, respectively, as a result of this.
The building is nearly finished. All the computer equipment and people are not there yet. That probably takes another year before the data center is up and running. Right?
@6:27 am
Ignorance is no excuse. Make an effort to do your research when you don't accept someone else's numbers as accurate.
NG is the largest recipient of Recovery Act Funds from SSA, and there's no clarity as to who got the rest of the money. Maybe instead of guessing that some construction workers got it, you can locate more definitive information:
http://www.recovery.gov/arra/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=AgencySummaryTopRecipients&agency_code=28
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