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CNO Says Divesting Legacy Systems Is An Imperative

CNO Says Divesting Legacy Systems Is An Imperative
Adm. Mike Gilday, Chief of Naval Operations, addresses media in the hangar bay of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) as part of MALABAR 2021, Oct. 14, 2021. (Photo: U.S. Navy by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Emily Claire Bennett)

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…

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