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The Department of the Navy's "Operation Cattle Drive" is a structured divestment initiative designed to free up funding for new capabilities by terminating underperforming or redundant programs.
The Department of the Navy is accelerating and expanding its "Cattle Drive" divestment initiative under the current administration.
The fielding of the "Sting" program increased bandwidth on Navy ships by 100x by using commercial satellite communications instead of only military satellite communications.
With the fielding of Flank Speed Wireless, Navy ships are experiencing a 100x improvement in bandwidth.
The design for the Columbia-class submarine was completed in the 2010s, and its operational lifecycle is planned to extend until the 2080s.
The Department of Defense has experienced procurement processes that take longer than the lifecycle of the product being acquired.
In response to a White House request for metrics of success for the campaign against the Houthis in the Red Sea, CENTCOM reportedly provided the number of munitions used.
The Department of the Navy uses "user time lost or saved" as a key outcome-driven metric to evaluate the impact of new technologies.
The current administration is mandating that the Department of Defense exercise pre-existing authorities, such as Other Transaction Authorities (OTAs), to accelerate procurement.
The Department of the Navy created an "innovation adoption kit" to provide a standardized toolkit for personnel attempting to adopt new technologies.
Without divesting from existing programs, the Department of the Navy has no funding runway for new programs for up to three years unless there is a budget plus-up.
A senior government official, who is no longer in their position, previously told Justin Finelli that "return on investment" is not a realistic concept within the government.