Navy’s tech playbook serves as ‘toolkit’ for rest of government

The IBM Center for the Business of Government and Foundation for American Innovation published an enterprise IT-modernisation playbook based largely on the U.S. Navy's technology-acquisition framework. Its recommendations are to map systems, data and finances, evaluate pilots against existing services using common outcome measures, and retire legacy technology while acquiring replacements. The Navy assesses user time, adaptability, cost per user, user experience and operational resilience, while coordinating pilots to reduce duplicated work. Ten pilots have transitioned into enterprise services or programmes of record, and Operation Cattle Drive supplies a structured process for consolidating and retiring outdated systems.