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Stackley: Weigh Cost, Warfighting Need For Open Architecture Backfitting

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Friday, November 20th, 2009

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By Emelie Rutherford While the Navy is committed to building systems with open architecture, it must weigh the cost of and operational need for retrofitting existing equipment to have such upgradable designs, the service's acquisition czar said yesterday. Sean Stackley, assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development, and acquisition, cited open-architecture efforts include decoupling hardware from software, building systems with greater modularity and commonality, publishing standards for system interfaces, and requiring the government have technical data for systems. Speaking at…

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