For the past 8 years, the Navy has been working on transforming the acquisition practices of the Navy and Marine Corps toward Open Systems Architectures to open up our business, gain competitive advantage, improve warfighter performance, speed innovation to the fleet and deliver superior capability to the warfighter within a shrinking budget1. Why should Industry care? They should care because we in Government want the best Industry has to offer. Industry is in the business of pushing technology to greater and greater capabilities through innovation. Examples of innovations are on full display at this conference, such as exploring the impact of difficult environmental conditions on technical performance. Industry is creating the tools which will continue to give the Navy and Marine Corps important tactical advantages over our adversaries.

Date Published: 29 May 2013
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 8754, Open Architecture/Open Business Model Net-Centric Systems and Defense Transformation 2013, 875402 (29 May 2013); doi: 10.1117/12.2019832

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8754:
Open Architecture/Open Business Model Net-Centric Systems and Defense Transformation 2013
Raja Suresh, Editor(s)