The Navy and EDS Corporation are showing that sometimes even a difficult marriage is better than splitting up.

The Navy last week signed off on a three-year extension of EDS contract for the $8.8 billion Navy-Marine Corps Intranet. The project has been trouble-plagued from the start.

The original seven-year contract was end in October 2007. For more than a year the Navy had been mulling its options. Last June, it announced it was conducting a business case analysis to determine whether to give EDS three more years or find somebody else.

Sources told GCN.com that the Navy granted EDS the extension after it was approved by members of the House Armed Services Committee.

NMCI is a consolidated voice, video and data network that will link more than 400,000 sailors and Marines at roughly 300 sites. EDS has already deployed more than 200,000 NMCI seats.

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