For the Navy, the project of reducing and consolidating disparate IT networks has been a work in progress literally for decades. But the service has seen significant progress over the last several years.
In the late 1990s, there were upward of 6,000 networks performing various functions. By 2010, that number had come down to about 1,200, and a decade later, it fell to 250. This year, there are 124 discrete IT environments across the DON, and officials want to further reduce that to below 100 by the end of 2026.
“We had business systems mixed with research, development, test and evaluation with tactical training ranges — so business and warfighting was all intermixed on the shore side of the house. And we realized that…
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