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Navy Wants Legacy Systems Open To New Capabilities

Thursday, March 22nd, 2018

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Navy Wants Legacy Systems Open To New Capabilities

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AUSTIN, Texas – The Navy is challenging its program directors to find ways of opening legacy systems to new capabilities, but the process of moving to modular, open systems architectures retroactively is a slow and difficult process, according to a senior service scientist.“We’re trying to go to modular, open systems where possible,” David Walker, technology director at the Office of Naval Research, said March 20 at the National Defense Industrial Association’s annual Science and Engineering Technology Conference here. “One of…

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