Navy leaders issued a memo establishing a new department-wide software policy for containerization technology usage.

The Navy’s CIO Jane Rathbun unveiled the IT modernization initiative in an unclassified memo viewed by DefenseScoop this week.

The IT contracts axed by the SECNAV include those for the Naval Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (NMRO) program.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memo Thursday to promote the "rationalization” of the Defense Department’s IT enterprise.

The review of the Navy's software enterprise is being coordinated through the Pentagon’s Office of the Chief Information Officer.

The changes to the Citizens Broadband Radio Services framework could provide uninterrupted wireless services for approximately 72 million people.

Dept. of Navy joins DefenseScoop at the Google Defense Forum 2024.

Department of the Navy CIO Jane Rathbun will be working to update the 2020 information superiority vision in the next six months.

She will also serve as special assistant for information management.

“In our work with Flank Speed … we actually physically put a cloud on a ship and are extending that enterprise IT concept more to the tactical…