
The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) last week repeated pleas to industry to stop lobbying Congress for platforms the Defense Department wants to divest from and called the Navy’s efforts to divest from legacy platforms an imperative. “Industry, by leveraging the Congress, forces us to buy things that we don't necessarily need or that's excess to need perhaps, in a decade where we’re trying to move with a sensor of urgency away from stuff that isn't going to make us…