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CAPITAL INVESTMENT JUSTIFICATIONFISCAL YEAR (FY) 2012 BUDGET ESTIMATES($ in Millions)Department of the Navy / Research and DevelopmentNaval Research LaboratoryFebruary 2011#002 - ADPE and Telecommunications Equipment Capabilities NRLWashington, DCFY 2010FY 2011 FY 2012Equipment CapabilityQuant Unit CostTotalCost Quant Unit CostTotalCost Quant Unit CostTotalCostComputer Hardware (Production) 6 1.962 3 2.623 4 1.350Computer Software (Operating System) 1 0.320Telecommunications 1 0.537Other Computer & Telecommunications Spt Equipment 0 0.000 0 0 0.000Total 7 2.476 3 2.623 5 1.670 0 0.000Justification:ADPE and Telecommunications Equipment:Computer Hardware (Production)Several investments in computer hardware (production) are proposed for FY 2011 and FY 2012. In FY 2011, NRL will invest in graphic processing united-based clusters which will facilitate thedevelopment and evaluation of high performance computing hardware, a high performance content storage and delivery system at each of NRL's locations to provide the environment toaccomplish research in architecture and distributed scaling in data handling, and a high performance computing system that will include Message Passing Interface technology that is currentlyin use at DoD operational data processing sites. The proposed end results will improve NRL's functionality, performance, capacity, efficiency, security, standards compliance, manageability,and maintainability related to ongoing research and development efforts. Pre-investment economic analyses were performed for all projects. In FY 2012, NRL will upgrade existing computerassets and infrastructure capabilities related to data storage, data transport, increased computation, and security requirements. Additional investments in FY 2012 focus on a multiprocessorcomputer system with the capacities required for all NRL researchers to develop and test new techniques for manipulating geospatial and environmental datasets, an information systemsstorage area network supporting increased disk density and storage capacity and environmental datasets and a computational cluster which will facilitate development of new and innovativeforecast systems. Pre-investment economic analyses were performed for all projects.Computer Software (Operating System)A single investment in computer software (operating system) is proposed for FY 2012 and focuses on an investment in a computer system supporting, analyzing and exploring issues associatedwith routing, managing and mandating network functionality as well as quality of service in a tactical battlefield. A pre-investment economic analysis was performed for this project.Exhibit Fund-9B, Capital Purchase Justification