Home-Use for Microsoft Approved for DON Personnel
Published, December 24, 2008
The Department of the Navy, through its contract with EDS for the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI), is entitled to use Microsoft Corporation’s Home Use Program (HUP). The HUP allows Navy and Marine Corps government civilian and uniformed personnel presently NMCI users, to obtain a licensed copy of Microsoft Office, Project or Visio desktop applications to install and use on a home computer if these applications are installed on their NMCI computer. Contractors are ineligible to participate.
The HUP shall continue for the term of the HUP agreement and DON personnel may take advantage of this offering provided they are employed by the DON and abide by the Home Use Rights End User License Agreement (EULA). The DON is not responsible for individual employee compliance with the terms and conditions of the EULA. The DON shall undertake reasonable efforts to ensure that DON employees are notified of Microsoft provisions concerning the HUP.
The authorized HUP program applications are accessible by logging on to the NMCI Homeport: https://www.homeport.navy.mil/news/articles/hup-license-info/. Should this link fail, enter "HUP" in Homeport’s search feature to locate the Home Use Program page. Access to the Microsoft HUP web site is limited to Navy and Marine Corps government civilian and uniformed personnel with authorized NMCI e-mail addresses only.
All DON personnel are reminded that personally identifiable information (PII) and controlled unclassified information (CUI) are not to be stored or otherwise used on personally owned laptops, desktops, personal electronic devices and/or other media storage.
There is a charge for paying the administrative costs of obtaining the software, including media and shipping. Navy and Marine Corps government civilian and uniformed personnel purchasing this offering may use the software as desired, provided as stated above, PII and CUI are not used on personal electronic media. Navy and Marine Corps government civilian and uniformed personnel participating in the HUP may obtain only one version of the software at any given time and must comply with all licensing requirements. Eligible software and ordering directions may be found at: https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/sa/benefits/home_use_rights.mspx. Eligible licenses for this program are a subset of the ones listed at this site.
The DON points of contact are Floyd V. Groce and Bruce Whiteman.
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