Navy’s tech playbook serves as ‘toolkit’ for rest of government
Navy Chief Technology Officer Justin Fanelli (far right) speaking at the SAP Public Sector Summit on Oct. 15. Photo courtesy of GovExec
October 23, 2026 04:00 PM ET
The U.S. Navy dramatically upped its use of pilot tech programs, shuttered old technology systems and moved into the modern tech arena — and it is sharing its lessons learned from along the way.
The IBM Center for the Business of Government and Foundation for American Innovation published a playbook for enterprise IT modernization over the summer based largely on the U.S. Navy’s successful framework for technology acquisition.
“Basically, they observed something we were doing — we were getting a handful of wins on common problems, and other agencies started copying it, and we started sharing what we were doing,” Navy Chief Technology Officer Justin Fanelli said on the sidelines of the SAP Public Sector Summit on Oct. 14...
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