NAVY: $150 Million Saved So Far Through Data Systems Updates

The Navy’s efforts to update its information systems and data analysis technology into consolidated systems has already saved $150 million according to a Naval analysis reported in nextgov.com.

Operation Cattle Drive was initiated in 2020 within the Navy and funded in the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act passed in 2021 to provide the Navy and Marine Corps the capability to upgrade technology, information systems, and data analysis within much larger shared networks.

The monumental task is helping each specific part of the world’s largest maritime fleet to coordinate better, make decisions faster, and manage their innumerable and often dangerous assignments with greater speed, accuracy, and efficiency.

"We've achieved over $150 million in savings over the [future years defense program] in our Cattle Drive efforts that have been reinvested back into the HR and finance portfolios," Michael Galbraith, the Navy's chief digital innovation officer, said during the service's IT conference on May 23 as reported in nextgov.com.

The information systems consolidation will continue to ramp up through 2025 continuing to provide the Navy and its vendor partners to resolve ever larger challenges.

The Association of Western Employers mission is to provide employers across the West with the opportunity to provide career building opportunities for every one of their employees. We will continue to report on this historic and substantial effort to modernize often decades old systems using often private and vendors and technology.