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By: FEDweek StaffThe Navy has saddled up for “Operation Cattle Drive” to send obsolete and wasteful IT off into the sunset, calling “unacceptable” the agency’s current “excessive number of information technology systems, networks, and applications in an overly complex architecture.”
The objective is to “accelerate the modernization and transformation of our IT capabilities by ensuring that decisions made to sunset or rationalize unneeded, obsolete, unproductive, insecure, and un-auditable IT systems and applications are realized,” says a memo from the acting under secretary of the Navy.
“The abundance and variation of these IT capabilities creates unnecessary complexity that hinders our ability to achieve an advantage by perpetuating isolated data silos, resulting in an increased cyber-attack surface, and enabling unnecessary operational risks and potential material weaknesses. Further, the department wastes billions of dollars in re-creating and sustaining duplicative IT infrastructure and support services to sustain these systems and applications, reducing resourcing options to drive digital modernization,” it says.
The memo tasks portfolio managers and IT capability owners with developing transition plans “with clear system and application sunset dates with no extension” to “eliminate investment redundancy and overlapping business and operational capabilities.”
The IT portfolio supporting the financial management business domain will be the first area for attention, followed by the logistics portfolio. Existing bodies will remain the primary governance forums and the initiative “does not represent an alteration of existing decision rights,” it says.
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