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SECNAV Calls For Expanding Open Architecture Approaches

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, July 9th, 2014

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SECNAV Calls For Expanding Open Architecture Approaches

The USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70). (Photo: U.S. Navy)

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…

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