The U.S. Marine Corps selected Oracle E-Business Suite, including Oracle's supply chain planning, procurement, logistics, maintenance, and service applications, to support its Global Combat Support System, “Marine Corps/Logistics Chain Management”.

The Oracle E-Business Suite will provide a single view of supply, maintenance and distribution, permitting Marines worldwide access. This will enable them to know the status of maintenance and supply requests and manage these based on operational requirements. The Oracle applications will also allow Marines providing combat service support to manage inventory and services more proactively. For example, Marines will be able to observe when the stock level of a specific product drops and automatically place an order to replenish it.

The award necessitated fully managed hosting from a 100% available facility with strict security requirements.

Carpathia Hosting is providing fully managed hosting services. The solution includes multiple secured colocation cabinets with fully managed, high availability Firewall, Load Balancing and Intrusion Detection services. Network connectivity is provided by Carpathia intelligent routed network (CIRN™).