Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said in a recently released plan that the Navy will continue to expand efforts to adopt open architecture systems in acquisition programs.
Mabus said the service will build on the components outlined in the Defense Department’s Better Buying Power Initiative 2.0 to improve the acquisition process in part through adopting an open architecture approach.
The Department of the Navy “will continue to expand its Open Systems Architecture (OSA) initiatives and improve the use of intellectual property to gain more effective competition to drive down cost, provide greater capacity to the warfighter and help ensure a sustainable future,” Mabus said in the service’s Transformation Plan dated July 2 and released this week.
Open architecture systems are seen as a way to speed up upgrades, forge commonality on systems rather than developing separate ones to perform similar tasks, while also reducing lifecycle costs.
Other aspects of the plan said the Navy expected to meet a congressional deadline to be auditable by the end of this year. It also said the service is proceeding with mandates to scale back management and headquarter staff to save money.
