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Navy Will Own Outright Effort To Create a Single Afloat Network From Five

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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

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By Geoff Fein The Navy's Consolidated Afloat Network Enterprise System (CANES) is not only taking a number of existing legacy efforts, funneling them down into a single program, but whichever design is finally chosen will be owned outright by the service, according to a Navy official. CANES is predominately a low-risk program, taking five legacy systems and combining them, programmatically, and from a requirements perspective, into a single infrastructure, Capt. D. J. LeGoff, program manager for tactical networks program office,…

Congress

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Senate Appropriators Concerned With DoD’s Reconciliation Plan For Top FY ‘27 Priorities, Aide Says

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