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Guertin Touts Digital Tools, Open Architectures, Leveraging IP To Improve How Navy Buys And Sustains

Guertin Touts Digital Tools, Open Architectures, Leveraging IP To Improve How Navy Buys And Sustains
Nickolas Guertin, former assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition. (Photo: Defense Department)

The Navy needs “to think and act differently” to develop and acquire innovative capabilities more quickly and some of the ways this can be done include using digital engineering and modeling tools, open and modular architectures, and better leveraging intellectual property rights, Nickolas Guertin, the nominee to lead the Navy’s development and acquisition efforts, said on Wednesday. The Navy needs to embrace digital tools such as model-based engineering to build systems faster given a “world now where almost everything is…

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