Coast Guard AHLTA Technology Business Case Analysis
Abstract
The Coast Guard must deliver AHLTA to its clinics, either through direct connection to military treatment facilities (MTFs), making the clinics satellite clinics, or through developing their own servers at the Operational Service Center (OSC) complex in Martinsburg. The Coast Guard Telecommunications & Information Systems Command (TISCOM) has made it clear that any system connecting to the Department of Defense (DOD) network may not connect to the Coast Guard Data Network (CGDN+), and the DOD has made a similar policy. Thus connecting to AHLTA via MTFs would entail an entire secondary network be established at each clinic site, one DOD and one CGDN+. This would be a major cost driver, far surpassing the costs associated with developing a Coast Guard AHLTA server farm at the OSC. Unless any of the assumptions undergo change, this analysis demonstrates that the Coast Guard would be better served by establishing their own AHLTA servers at the OSC center at Martinsburg, West Virginia versus connecting directly to MTFs. The net present value (cost) differential of this route results in a savings of $6,633,152 to the Coast Guard.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 27, 2007
- Accession Number
- ADA477549
Entities
People
- Mark R. Freese